Big Sky Country

[buzz456]

What are the differences between Big Sky and MRL by Zawal routes?

Zawal's route is the MRL 10th Subdivision, from Missoula to Paradise via Evaro Hill.

The 'Big Sky Country' Route is ultimately going to be the entire ~900 mile MRL route. I'm not sure the phases that it will be released in though.

If you read my post what I said was I was going to release the section from Huntley to Bozeman. So that be subdivision 1 and 2.

[NateRS]

900 miles is impressive. Any updates on this route?

[CN2899]

this is one impressive route cant wait for the release

[krellnut]

Starting to get better at decorating.

[Tomcat]

Looking good Walter!

[buzz456]

As a matter of fact we are going to be releasing a WIP beta shortly.

[suzukisk]

[Tomcat]

Welcome news!

Can't wait for some long drives in Big Sky Country.

Thanks Buzz, Walter and crew for all your hard work.

[buzz456]

The plan is to release the short route roughly 100 miles Huntley to Bozeman and the full route of which most of it still has no scenery. I'm going to post the asset list here but will post a link to a file that contains all of the assets also. This is going to be uploaded to Dropbox because I don't want to load up the server here so there will just be links here on the forum. We will be doing periodic updates which will not require another full D/L. We are looking for any scenery guys (or gals) who would like to work on this. Track work is finished and signalling is done for about another 100 miles or so West of Bozeman.

[Chacal]

I can put this in the file library just like any other item, except that the download button will get the file from your Dropbox link.

[buzz456]

I can put this in the file library just like any other item, except that the download button will get the file from your Dropbox link.

Great idea if you can do that. We'll do it that way.

[buzz456]

Here is what TSTools says are the assets used. Most of this is scenery items.

[Chacal]

I'm gathering information for the library post. Please refresh my memory.

Is it correct to say this:

- The Big Sky Country route is a WIP. It has not been published at all yet.
- The route is based on the MRL, which is 815 miles long running from Billings, Mt. to Spokane, Wa. Huntley, Mt.
- A first WIP version will be published soon. It has the section from Huntley to Bozeman, corresponding to subdivisions 1 and 2 of the MRL.
- The asset pack contains all assets needed for this WIP version (including rolling stock?). Also assets for future releases?
- The RWA library also has several repaints that are just perfect for this route.

[buzz456]

There will be no rolling stock assets included. Everything used in any of the scenarios is available in the library and this file is big enough already. A lot of the rolling stock is payware of some kind so I suggest if it gets complicated for anyone to make your own free roam scenarios. There is one quick drive for everyone that should work OK. There are all kinds of route markers so making free roams should be easy. In any event all we are trying to do is give everyone a taste of one of the great regional routes that is based on the authentic track.

[buzz456]

Everybody just remember this isn't for just fun running a this point. It's for the community to build on and is a WIP beta.