Jos A Banks
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My objects and routes. Also found at the Train-sim library.
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Merry Christmas. The Christmas tree route is back on line and updated for 2006. Alsot www.uktrainsim.com and www.train-sim.com I have updated the XMASTREE route this year by adding several random presents, added a monorail version and a BVE 4 steam engine version. Ther orignal and 2005 versions are also part of the download if your system has resource limiations that make the newer routes not work. It is just a train running around a tree. The route uses the random command to generate a different set of presents each time you run the route. this was created for me to study the RND command, and I like the result. Since the route is 999999 meters long, you can run for along time |
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Merry Christmas. A Christmas present for the MSTS community. A trip around a Christmas tree for your favorite MSTS trains. Includes 4 activities with default consists, three drive, one train ride. Each will run for about an hour of train watching. A nice bit of eye candy for your Christmas computer screens. The best used in the explore mode with your preferred train. I have used one of the DRG&W steamers and passenger cars, a GG1 with heavyweight cars and a Breezer trolley. This would also look good with a Swiss electric or German small steamer. |
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RBCLEAN a utility to clean up a route builder file. Removes the repetive identical lines from a Route builder File to make it smaller. Test show up to 25% reduction in some files |
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An Electric Locomotive and coach set repainted from Uwe Post's DB120 Electric and one of his coaches. Used with Permission. Not real, but a passable set of objects for the NE US December 15----Updated with more locomotives. 2 Amtrak, old and new paint, 2 NJT, 1 Metro North and one classic New Haven |
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I am working on a short US Western style railroad for BVE using Route Builder. I need s turntable to turn the locomotives at the end of line and at the shops. I use a straight section of my Western track as a base and put a A frame over a slightly widened section of track. This follows no specific model but this link has infomation on one modern reconstruction:http://www.fedshra.org/turntable.htm I used an HST locomotive to make sure the spacing is wide enough for some, but not all stock. After all this was originally a light mountain rail system with small stock. There is an add on for the Route Builder Trackdef file. BACKUP your trackdef file and copy the contents of the included trackdef-add-on file into your trackdef file. You can use this as a driveable piece of track, but you must either make it 25 meters long or use it in a grid. Make the track height at both ends at lease .650 meters. Also included are a simple water tower and coal tower for your engine service facility. the coal tower comes in a low and high def. version. The low def version is for view from far away, the other is for view right next to the track. For the modern era, a Diesel tank is included. |
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A set of utility trailers . They look very good behind Michael Goetz's pick up trucks. Typical North American work Utility Trailer. Black Blue Green Orange Gray Red versons. Note Truck is NOT part of the download. This comes from Michael Goetz.. |
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Currently off line Back Soon |
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The Tandy Center Subway was located in Fort Worth Texas. It connected the Tandy Center office complex, location of the corporate offices of The Tandy Corp (Owner of Radio Shack, amoung others), a shopping center and a skating rink with the main parking lot. The line was colsed in 2002. |
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I have o created a passenger view for the R1 car with the approval of Vince Black for the Picture and Edward Yee for the use of his train information. It can be used in BVE 2 or 4 and in BVE 4 you can use it to run a route backwards. |
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See web page for photos Note Moved to Yahoo downloads May 08 2005 |
Inner Harbor Transit is proud to announce the reopening of the F elevateds line, or F-el line. This line if often called the FL ine because of the area it is located in. After 3 years of demolition of the original elevated line and reconstruction, the new Fl Monorail line is open and carrying passengers.To celebrate this event the Inner Harbor Transit company has searched its archives for film and video of the earlier life of the line and has produced Three short simulations of the route in three eras of its operation. of the new line. |
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This is an expanded version of the sphere creator. It is a general complex object creator. You can create a sphere, cylinder, cube and a torus. All can be done with complex commands ( Cube, cylinder) or vertex commands except the torus. The torus is a 2.5 meter section of a cylinder that is warped to be used in the Curved object spread sheet to produce a curved tunnel with out over lapping mapping at the edges. Each object can be created with color or a bit map image. Included art the two bve logo files to use for test. |
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This file contains an updated tight curve track set for the Tight Curve Demo route. Unzip the contents to the tightcurve objects file and now the curves on both routes will be smoother. Made withCurverail editor by AdvanceBoy See this link for more information on the editor: http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/DCForumID17/1696.html The Tight curve demo route is on the Train-sim library or available by email on request, Must be able to accept 780 mb download |
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A set of three object made with the beta version of sphere creator: A balloon, A pair of Propane tanks for BV petroleum's propane devision, and the shell of a High speed train for you to use to create a high speed object. The propane tanks could be resized and put on running gear to make a nice freight car delivering to a tank farm. |
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A wheel set to put under BVE coaches and locomotives that have only flat wheel showing. Useful for the first and last rolling stock in a set. Note uses the Cylinder command. Use sparringly, you can adjust the number of segments for distance objects |
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BVE Trolley Bus Kit. Add the contents of the file to the end any bus B3D file from the BVE Bus Library File to make it a trolley bus. Change the dog house color to match the bus. Copy the contents of the B3D file to the bus b3d file and rename the copy trolleybus.b3d where bus = the name of the bus b3d file. |
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BVE simple signs. A collection of signs based on the Route builder signs for any BVE route. The names look like real places, but they are not. For any BVE route. For Route Builder routes place in the signs Lib folder.These are open source, change for your use. |
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BVE Shelter Collection. Three metal shelters for small halts. One yellow, red and blue. A left and Right version. For Route builder or any BVE route. One end closed , one open. You can modify the B3D file to get no closed ends, two closed ends or either end closed. Has a handicap access ramp and stairs on one end. Can use plain or with standard route Builder platforms (or anyothers) For Route Builder routes, place in the platforms Lib folder..These are open source, change for your use if you wish. |
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Small Bush Collection |
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BVE small bush collection. Four small bushes for BVE routes. A plain bush, one with red flowers,one with white flowers,one with yellow flowers. For any BVE route. For Route builder routes, place in the plants Lib folder.These are open source, change for your use if you wish. These are found in the Train sim library in the BVE collection. |
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Canal Boat and Boat
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On the road (Canal?) to Inner Harbor. What is a harbor with out shipping? This is a first cut at a canal for the Inner Harbor. Now off line If you want this email me at the link in the info section. |
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From a suggestion by Alfred Barten of Virtual Railroading (see links page) I have created a small cab that acts like a hot air balloon. Includes a copy of flight control to adjust height. Use CTRL ENTER to turn on the burner. Image from mytech.com by way of Coolclips.com. Extract to a folder called Balloon in the Trains folder. |
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A road test track for BVE non rail vehicles. This version uses the Rover city car. Now hosted on Yahoo. Click on link todownload. See read me for details. You can use BRR 10 or modify the route file for other vesicles . Can use in BVE 2.6 +, but for 4.0 beta use another vehicle. BVE 2.3 and lower may have trouble with the tight curves. |
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Now hosted at http://www.virtual-rail.co.uk/ . Thank you Damon Cox for hosting this file. The full train is in the same location and both are full installs. You do not need to do an overlay. To use., iether use BRR or modify the route.
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This is a collection of unballasted track and ballast sections. Now hosted on Yahoo, click on link to download.
These were created to use in an Old West type route from the 1870-1900 period. It is light rail on wooded sleepers/ties The unballasted track represents just laid track or track under construction. The ballast is provided for the upgraded track. |
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Listowel - Ballybunion Railway This is on my Yahoo page, click above to go to the link.
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Photo courtesy of the Listowel-Ballybunion Railway home page.
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Small little route based on the Listowel - Ballybunion Railway, a
Lartigue Monorail that existed in Ireland from 1888 until 1924.
This was an idea from Alex Farlie. He asked if some one would be
interested in this route. I made some tracks and decided to model
the existing museum route that exist today. Uses the J36 steam
loco found at
http://www.gotopcs.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=40 |
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Tight curve demo route |
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Archived on off line storage. If you want theis email me at the contact email address and I can send to you.. With the release of BVE 2.6.2, tight curves are possible. BVE 2.9 allows tight curves, but it is only a BETA and not in wide release. We will define tight curves as less than 100 meter radius and very tight curves as less than 50 meter radius. Earlier versions of BE will do tight curves, but very tight curves cause the train to get stuck if it runs slowly or rock violently if run at speed. The routes To check out the capability of 2.6.2 to do very tight curves, I have created a small set of routes. These are included with this document. Also included is Included is a 50 meter radius curve and an 8 meter radius. These objects are very preliminary versions and may be changed. The package contains 6 basic routes. The Documents zip contains an explanation in MS word format and Excel spread sheets used to create these routes. And now are only available by request. Sent me an email and I will mail them to you. |
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Now updated for BVE 4. Note this is stored on Yahoo and you may receive an not available notice. Please try later. I am building a route called Inner harbor. It connects a Harbor and an airport. While browsing the Train-sim forum, I saw Shane Roberts (Central Trains) Airport scene and it inspired me to start on my air port. After all I do need a home for the Blimps I build. But then, I could not leave all that concrete unused, so I put together a drivable (flyable??) Boeing 737. The speedometer shows in KPH but pretend it is MPH or KnPH, and it actually looks pretty good considering it is really a train. Coments by 737 drivers for improvements are welcome and encouraged. This is version 1. Please see the readme for credits. A lot of other people helped with this. If you are downloading this as an update, just install over the existing file. Note some special effects included. |
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Moved to yahoo downloads, click on link to left This is Inner Harbor MOFN airport approach for the Boeing 737. It is a bumpy day and you are low, so watch your airspeed. Read the instructons for the 737 and speed limits. You will need to approach at 140 indicated, flair at about 120 and stand on the brakes to stop at this VERY short airport. A day and night approach are included. If you have the Miniharbor monorail test route, you will recoginize the city you fly over. This is first cut at this. I hope to improve with the final release. |
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A test bed for various Monorail, LRV and Bus object and effects. More of a public beta than a release, but I am having fun with it and thought it would be nice to share. I think I know most of the errors, but comments and suggestions always welcome. Created with Route Builder. Trains T180 from http://www.zodiac-infosystems.co.uk/rail/bve/ and hsst1001 from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BVE/files/ (download monorail routes for trains and a pair of routes, Now also available at www.train-sim.com library. |
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Various airport objects that will allow you to add an airport to your route. Included are day and night versions of a control tower, approach lights, Runway and taxiway, and airport beacon. Runway labeled for 38 and 18 ( north south runways). These are NOT photo realistic. Night versions are lighted |
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Null Platform for Route Builder. If you need to put a platform in Route Builder, but do not want any thing to show, use these. Use for routes that do not require showing platforms such as tram routes or routes where the platform is part of the station object already |
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A collection of round buildings for Route Builder and hand coders. If you are using Route Builder DO NOT extract the three bmp files called house*.bmp. These are already in your buildings library. NOTE these are about 64 meters tall, but can be used as smaller buildings by sinking them with the freeobje command. Combine with the standard RB buildings for interesting architecture. |
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Adds headlights and interior lighting to the bus set below. Download this if you alrready have the bus library. |
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NEW MARCH 1ST Includes Object fix and night kit.This is a set of bus objects for BVE. Both full 3d models and simple models are included. They are based on an Orion 7 bus. Several pre-colored models are included. The simple bus type is easy to recolor, but the complex bus is not. You may use these as is or use them as examples to reskin your own. Most of the bus objects are or driving on the right hand side of the road, but there are two left hand side of the road models in plain white, a simple and complex. |
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English panel.cfg files |
The HSST1000 and HSST200 monorail panel.cft files are set up for Japanese systems. Copy the text to the right into the cfg files if you are using a western character set. Both files are identical
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Panel for the HSST200 and HSST1000: [PilotLamp] TurnOn=DoorOn TurnOff=DoorOff Corner=287,0
[Watch] Hand=64,64,64 Background=WatchBack Center=295,162 Radius=19
[Speedometer] Type=1 Hand=0,0,0 Center=170,85 Radius=52 Background=VlcBack Cover=VlcOn angle=44 Maximum=188
[DigitalIndicator] Number=figure Corner= 135,80 Size=20,25 |
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One of the things that came from the test route above was that there is an error in the complex bus library when using on some video cards. This fixes that error. Replace the files in the bus library with these to get rid of the non transparent front windows on some of the bus objecss |
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This is an Excel spread sheet to make curved objects for BVE. Allows left, right up and down curves. derived from Luigi's curve10 sheet. |
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A set of curved Bridge track with and with out overhead. Designed for Route Builder, but usable in any route. A set of curved wooden trestle type bridges and the bitmaps for a stone work bridge. Included is a utility to create these. The directions are the same as for use of Curve 10 to produce curved sections of track. Choose curve radius, track height, bitmaps for track, bridge side and top. Paste result into a B3D file. If you need CSV, use the bve file converter. |
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This is a little in progress route inspired by the Martin rover launches. I put this up when the rovers landed. NOTE CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO GO TO THE ROVER HOME PAGE. I am looking for comments on thisl, but it is fun to play with. Back on line at yahoo remote download page. Click link to go there |
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This is the second release of a BVE file converter. It allows full bi-directional conversion of object files from CSV to B3D and B3D to CSV. The converter also allows you to modify the position of CSV files in space. You can move the file in X Y and Z directions, resize (scale) and mirror in all three axis.
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Christmas is over and all the Christmas decorations are put away for another year. The Christmas tree route in the train-sim library. I will bring it out next year. If you really want it before then, It can be emailed, See INFO page for contact information |
A Christmas tree route and Train. The train if from Luigi Cartello, The route from me. This is a Christmas present to the BVE community. Now only available at www.train-sim.com library |
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Helicopter objects for BVE and RB. One for ground, one for flight. Inspired by Martin Finken 's drivable version found at under sonstige fahrzeuge at the bottom ofthe page. |
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This is a collection of stradle beam monorail with power rails and enclosed suspended monorail tracks. They were created with a modifyed version of Luigi Cartello |
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This is a small demo route for the Narrow gauge track pack for BVE. It was created using Route Builder 1.0 and 1.1. Please see the various credit files for detailed credits, Currently only available in the Train-sim.com library. If you can not access this library, email me and I can send the file to you |
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This is set of narrow gauge tracks and narrow gauge tracks with rack rail. They are in the size of 12" 24 " and 36 " ( approximately 300,600 and 900 mm). They have smooth curves of 50, 100, 150, 200, 500, 1000 and 2000 meters. Also included are the raw rack rails for these curves if you want to add them to your rails. Included is a text file to add to your trackdef file in route builder to give you access with out having to define these tracks. |
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This is the Airship object set. It is a companion to the drivable Airship. It includes an Airship, hanger, docking mast and windsock and a Helium transport truck trailer. Included is a complete scene. Also included is a very small Airship to use as a forced perspective object. |
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The Flight Control program allows you to change the altitude and off set that theBVE Helicopter ( found at http://bve-train.de/)* flys. It also allows you to change the view pitch, or look down, angle |
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A three sided building object for BVE. Place this a the intersection of diverging track. You can adjust the length of the sides to get angle you need. Equal sides = 45 degrees. As is is now, it is about 30 degrees. You can work out the lengths for other angles.There is a Heliport on the top floor. Some place to put the helicopter above |
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This is a Black Building object for BVE. Place in your object folder along with the bitmaps. Building name is Building 51, for your classified projects. A Building sign is included. |
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Three bridge objects. They are for adding to the RB library, but you can use them in your BVE Objects folder too.These are three bridges that are wide enough to take the 4 lane Blve from the RB library if you want to adda different road survace. They sit at about 8 meters and can be raised to 18 meters. The set contains a Bridge wide enough to cross 4 tracks or 4 road traffic lanes, a viaduct to carry the road with out a tunnel and a ramp togo up and down to the road.
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An X-Y-Z marked axis file in CSB and BED format for BVE viewersFor use with structure viewer to check alignment of files.You may modify and reuse this file as long as the original author line is maintained and you add your name to it. |
