Hi Harold,
Always glad to hear someone interested in the Flying Bluenose. A typical Flying Bluenose consist would be all-wooden cars with:
1) a couple of baggage and express cars, either the DAR's old 3 window versions - http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DAR000054
or the CPR 60 foot two window versions like -
http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DAR004068
2) A couple of wooden enclosed vestibule coaches like Madeline and Josephine or Micmac
http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DAR000016
http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DAR000024
3) A Parlour car like Haligonian or Mayflower
4) A buffet observation car like Grand Pre or Annapolis Royal with a nice Land of Evangeline drumhead.
- http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DARANNAPOLISROYAL
- http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=DARGRANDPRE
Dan Conlin
The DAR DPI has good pictures of all except the parlour cars - you could leave those out as the observation car also had some parlour car seats.
Dan Conlin
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Re: MSTS Interest
Crowell... hmmm... are you related to the Middleton Crowells?
On to the Bluenose.
I have noticed that in this photo:
http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... ationb.jpg
we have a consist that might well be a Flying Bluenose except that the baggage car is missing up front.
What I would love to know is if anyone knows what that huge oval on the side of the second car in both these photos was?
http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... tsport.jpg
On to the Bluenose.
I have noticed that in this photo:
http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... ationb.jpg
we have a consist that might well be a Flying Bluenose except that the baggage car is missing up front.
What I would love to know is if anyone knows what that huge oval on the side of the second car in both these photos was?
http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... tsport.jpg
Steve Meredith
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Re: MSTS Interest
Hi Harold,
I can help you if you have questions but still recommend the builder's guide as it can answer the stuff I've alredy forgotten! Actually, there are things you do only once when you are setting up a new route, so it's easy to forget them when you've only had to do them three or four times in the last three or four years.
Being a Canadian route you'll need to use Google Earth to make your markers for things like rails, roads, rivers, and anything else you can think of. What you do is to go into google Earth, place their flags along these lines, save the "My Places" file in kml format, open that file in Route-Riter and export it into your route as a mkr format file that MSTS will read in Route Editor and place flags that will guide you. It would appear that you will be running into the same problem I currently have, Google has great satellite shot of Yarmouth to Brazil Lake Road but nothing north of that point (I have no satellite shots from 0.7 miles south of Grande Pre to Windsor).
The beta is at:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=xmch6zd8ykc
If you'd like to have a look. If you run into problems and need help getting it to open let me know, that are a couple of things you may need or maybe you already have them.
Paul
I can help you if you have questions but still recommend the builder's guide as it can answer the stuff I've alredy forgotten! Actually, there are things you do only once when you are setting up a new route, so it's easy to forget them when you've only had to do them three or four times in the last three or four years.
Being a Canadian route you'll need to use Google Earth to make your markers for things like rails, roads, rivers, and anything else you can think of. What you do is to go into google Earth, place their flags along these lines, save the "My Places" file in kml format, open that file in Route-Riter and export it into your route as a mkr format file that MSTS will read in Route Editor and place flags that will guide you. It would appear that you will be running into the same problem I currently have, Google has great satellite shot of Yarmouth to Brazil Lake Road but nothing north of that point (I have no satellite shots from 0.7 miles south of Grande Pre to Windsor).
The beta is at:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=xmch6zd8ykc
If you'd like to have a look. If you run into problems and need help getting it to open let me know, that are a couple of things you may need or maybe you already have them.
Paul