Virtual Railway Modelling

Set in the mid seventies, the route from Annapolis Royal to Windsor Junction, including the Steam Mills spur (the old CVR) and from Windsor to Brooklyn (the old Midland), and has been faithfully recreated by Paul Charland, a talented Microsoft Train-Sim developer, who started creating it in March 2009). This was a labour of love and it shows.

There is marvelous detail in all the D.A.R. towns but in particular, the towns of Windsor, Wolfville, Kentville and the entire Greenwood Air Force base are especially accurate and well detailed. The line is fully populated with many historical structures such as the Kentville Cornwallis Inn, Grand Pré Park, the DAR Kentville, Wolfville, Hantsport, Middleton, Lawrencetown and Annapolis Royal stations as well as many unique DAR rolling stock items such as DAR lettered Dayliners, ALCO S3's and gypsums cars as well as the ubiquitous EMD SW1200s and many other standard rolling stock pieces with numbers as spotted on the DAR throughout the years.

The simulation can be run with the original MSTS software and now will run as well on (free!) Open Rails software.

See our Forum for more up to the minute information on development of this virtual line. Also see our forum download section for the MSTS DAR as well as the available engines and rolling stock customized and created for the DAR: http://www.dardpi.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=17

Gallery

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  An MSTS model of No. 9059 in front of the Kentville Station.

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  An MSTS model of No. 9058 in front of the Kentville Station sporting a hockey mask it never got to wear on the DAR.

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  A digital 3D model of the Cornwallis Inn created by Paul Charland for the D.A.R. MSTS route.

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  Two digital 3D models of the ALCO S3s, the only diesels ever lettered for the D.A.R. created by Paul Charland for the D.A.R. MSTS route.