Central Europe MP Route Project

Stibitz HBF + Town, WIP

The first town on the other side of the river that divides the map in half. This town is located at the Czech/German border. Line on the bottom continues to Dabach via Stibitz Nord, Oberwambach and Rhenfeld. Mainline on the right continues to Niederfeld via Südbergen. Mainline on top will continue to Bažinov (Czechia).

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Hello Slovak_Eagle,

Great Video.

Best Regards Piggylax

Stibitz HBF + Town, WIP

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Südbergen HBF + Town, WIP

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Südbergen Flughafen, WIP

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23 minutes past midnight and I just realised I built 3 towns in a little over 2 weeks. Yep, faster than ever. Doubt I am gonna keep this speed up as I enter the more populated areas of Niederburg relatively soon. And I haven´t started work on the city or harbor yet, nor the car factory.

I have just about finished the area around "Südbergen Dreistein Bhf" (S-Bahn), with a flyover junction that heads south to Austria. Next station is Bad Meisenberg (S-Bahn), followed by a junction for a line from Switzerland. This line to Switzerland also has the car factory on it. After that, I got another S-Bahn station at Niederburg suburbs, and then Niederburg Hbf.

Great Video.

Best Regards Piggylax

Work is progressing nicely. I am almost done with the town of Bad Meisenberg. Now working on terrain around the split of tracks towards Switzerland.

I have managed to build the southern half of the route with a lot less urban areas than initially planned. It´s better for the performance (less street details), and my sanity (less street details). I am still trying to keep the scenery interesting, from the lake at Stibitz to the Airport in Südbergen. Dreistein will have a nice river and a dam nearby, Bad Meisenberg will catch your attention with a Hotel/Spa on a hill, and the fields of cows and sheep. The car factory on the line towards Switzerland will have a town next to it, but it doesn´t have a name yet. This town will exist only so that I have an excuse of running more Swiss trains

I will have pictures from these areas eventually.

The next driving videos will include Niederburg, but as this is the central point of work and the route, it will take the longest amount of time to actually build. Therefore more driving videos from CEM Germany will have to wait several months.

Catenary in Niederburg is around 30% finished. It´s a mess of wires that even we have a hard time following, but we are making sure it is all properly set up. The catenary here is so complicated we had to draw a sketch of how we want to implement it.

We are also keeping a little progress table so we know who made what, as well as notes and stuff to keep us on track with this project. There is a lot more to come but I won´t spoil anything yet, as it is a lot of work that has been done and will have to be done.

Snipper from progress sheet:

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Catenary preparations at Niederburg:

The signalling aspect of the whole route will be designed and finished towards the end, on top of other upgrades like superelevation, track condition, more details in certain locations and better mix of textures.

Hello guys!

Been a while since my last post. After taking a small break, I am working on this again. Not much to show yet, but enjoy some of the screenshots in the current "Work In Progress" area.

Car plant has been laid out and is the centerpoint of the area.

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It features steel coil unloading (left), intermodal terminal (center) and car loading (right, unfinished).

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The line with the car plant heads south towards Switzerland. It connects to the mainline from Czechia a little bit outside of Niederburg (Capital City). You can see the 4 track mainline (2 intercity tracks, 2 S-Bahn tracks) splitting off. Heading into niederburg, the railway becomes a 6 track mainline for a short distance.

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The line heading into Switzerland has been electrified, but I am thinking of changing the terrain in the area and possibly hiding the tracks in a tunnel.

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Progress is slow and steady, as I am working on two projects again. If you watch my YouTube and Twitch, you are aware of it. For others, I am working on a small update to "Inselbahn". Making the route seasonal and adding new scenery. I am also creating several story-driven sessions for the route, to tell a tale of a small island.

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Mind you, the update to Inselbahn is aiming to be payware. However if N3V rejects it, I will release the update for free. A lot of work has gone into this in the past month, would be a shame to waste it by keeping it for myself or deleting it.

ZiuT has released his new SSF asset pack on the DLS. It contains splines for grounds cover, walls, roofs, pillars and tunnels. Pefect for making flyovers, bridges and underground tunnels/stations.

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Throughout the posts, I have been hinting at reworks of older areas of the route. Brzozowice is one of the areas being worked on.

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Now, anyone reading this post, skilled at route building or asset creation, be it texturing, modelling or scripting, who would like to be part of the CEM Team, please contact me directly.

Thank You all for the support. Have a nice day.

Slowly but surely implementing a fun little line in Germany. Work in Progress.

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Spent the whole last week building Niederburg. We have a new member on our team handling artwork. Niederburg will get it´s own Ubahn and Sbahn route map objects.

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Just finished streaming building on CEM Germany. Worked more on the Hauptbahnhof area.
Stream archive will be available sometime next month on Youtube as well.

Link to Twitch VOD:

N3V has launched a enw website to preview things they, and others, are working on. From future updates to the game to future releases. We have also created our own little showcase on their new website.

https://roadmap.trainzsimulator.com/c/74-central-europe-mini

May I ask where your great project
in Germany is going next?

Quote from Beko

May I ask where your great project
in Germany is going next?

Niederburg will be the largest city on the whole CEM. The city will have a harbour in the north. This will take a lot of time, as the whole harbour is encircled and crossed by railways. After that, only one diesel branchline will remain. Mainly intended for operating of historic and short trains. The line will follow the biggest river in the region. The end of the line turns inland to the hills.

That concludes the main work on CEM Germany. We are however re-working Poland, and it is possible that we will include the Baltic sea, this would create another connection point for Germany, in which case Germany will need to be extended north to allow for the new connection.

Some more screenshots for the people interested in the Ubahn network of Niederburg. These are screenshots from all the underground stations on the network right now. They will be refined in the future. ZiuT and CangoFango (new member) are working together to bring new tiled walls, pillars and ceilings for the stations, some possibly with interesting artwork. Here is a Work In Progress network map (this texture will be on an asset in the game) for the Sbahn network.

The only wrong thing from final product here is that Niederburg Sudhohe has been renamed to Niederburg Sudbahnhof. This si due to the destination signs available for the Ubahn rolling stock. Sudbahnhof will be one of the 4 terminus stations for the Ubahn.

Sbahn Map:

Niederburg HBF - South Approach

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Niederburg HBF - North Approach

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Ubahn - Schlossberg
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Ubahn - Hauptbahnhof
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Ubahn - Museum
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Ubahn - Stadtpark

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What is left to do: Niederburg Harbour (Europahafen), Diesel Branchline, Ubahn Branchline

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Thank you for this explanation
Greetings Beko

Hello,

While we all impatiently wait for the next Central Europe Mini, you might enjoy this: https://herecomethetrainzes.com/CentralEuropeMini

While in strictly technical terms this is a Trainz session, in all other respects it is an entirely new concept for Trainz, for which we coin the term "Super Session":

- dozens of fully automated trains

- all running simultaneously

- some working together

- performing dozens of different scenarios simultaneously

- running 24/7

- lots of randomisation, to generate unpredictable variation

- all shown through trackside cams

- much, much more – check out <https:HereComeTheTrainzes.com/>

Should you want to install and play, make sure to RTFM. It's not difficult to install, but it is a little bit more involved than some will be used to.

Btw, there's also a Super Session for the Niddertalbahn: https://herecomethetrainzes.com/Niddertal

Enjoy!

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Este

Here Come the Trainzes!

+++++ auf deutsch +++++

(Etwa 40 Jahrem seit ich deutsch hab geschrieben. Bitte euer Verständtnis… ;))

Guten Tag,

Wärend wir allen warten auf die nächste version Central Europe Minis, könnte dies euch vielleicht spaß machen: https://herecomethetrainzes.com/CentralEuropeMini

Technisch ist es ein Trainz Session, aber realistisch ist es ein ganz neues Konzept für Trainz. Wir nennen es "Super Session":

- dutzende von völlig automatiserten Zuge

- alle gleichzeitig

- manche Zuge arbeiten mit einander zusammen

- dutzende von Simultanszenarios

- dreht 24/7

- vieles ist randomisiert, um unendliche Variation zu generieren

- trackside Kameras die ganze Linie entlang

- viel, viel mehr; check out <https:HereComeTheTrainzes.com/>

Zum installieren liest man am besten erstmal die Instruktionen. Ist nicht schwehr; nur ein bisschen mehr arbeit als gewöhnlich.

Übrigens gibt's auch ein Super Session für die Niddertalbahn: https://herecomethetrainzes.com/Niddertal

Viel spaß!

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Este

Here Come the Trainzes!