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Greater Toronto Area Greater Toronto Area This route started as a project for Bombardier/TCS to aid in training new GO Transit operators in 2006/07. It was originally built in two pieces; GO East and GO West. Accuracy of the trackwork and signaling was most important, as was the physical operation of the equipment. Reliable smooth simulator operation was also important. The route did not have as many background details as most MSTS routes to enhance the smooth operation. The route takes the East and West GO Project and combines them into one large project. More details and track work were added and the route and equipment were refined into the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Route Build: Andy Hockin Locos: Ed Sketcher Equipment: Ian Dodd, Ed Sketcher Downtown Towers: Ian Dodd, Ed Sketcher Activities: Andy Hockin Sound Recordings: Robin Claxton The route has over 230 miles of main track, 43 passenger stations, dozens of yards and hundreds of industrial leads. GO Transit, Via and CN equipment is included in 20 activities that run over 8 subdivisions. The subs include all of the USRC, Halton, Weston, Oakville, Uxbridge and portions of the York, Bala, Newmarket and Kingston. The trackwork is accurate for modern operation including the latest upgrades not shown in the included CN track profiles. The passenger activities are taken from the operating schedule all beginning or ending at Union Station. The Toronto skyline has been built with over 30 accurately modeled towers and buildings. These include some that are just now being completed during the current downtown building boom. Major yards modeled in the route include the Brampton intermodal, the Willowbrook/Via service centers in Mimico, the Oakville Ford plant and the Aldershot. The Union Station Rail Corridor (USRC) has been accurately modeled which made the use of Xtracks necessary due to the countless double slip switches on each approach ladder. The number of single dwarf signals in the USRC had to be reduced from the prototype, as there were too many signals in the area for MSTS to process. There are still enough of them to give a great feel of the area. The GTA has many features that will only work with the use of the MSTS “Bin”. The Bin fixes many issues with MSTS and it helps with the stability of the sim. The route will operate without it, however the sim may post messages indicating problems. The bin can be downloaded from the link in the requirements section below. The GTA will be open to development by any person willing to submit objects or activities to Maple Leaf Tracks. If anyone would like to make or improve a model of a structure, vegetation, texture, etc, to be placed on the route, MLT on approval of the submission, will build an update for the owners of the GTA. These updates will include any necessary fixes to the route and will be free to download and distribute to the GTA owners. Changes to the trackwork unfortunately cannot be made due to the nature of MSTS. During the combining of the East and West GO projects, the Oshawa leg could not be added. The database became corrupted due to the local route database that defines the dynamic track becoming too large for MSTS to process. This will be looked into to see if that leg can be added to the GTA. Other route combining will also be looked into such as adding the Niagara Corridor and the Bala Sub. In certain areas, the frame rate (fps) will drop due to the number of track and world objects. The USRC and Mimico yard are two of these areas. If your fps drops or the sim crashes, the following suggestions will help: Do a disc clean and defragmentation of your computer. Turn off all programs running in the background such as messenger. Go into the MSTS options and turn off all shadows and specular lighting. Lower the world object density to 8 or 7. Set the display resolution to 1024 or higher. You may also need to adjust other options to improve performance. Start each act from a fresh boot of the computer. Required elements not supplied by MLT for the GTA are as follows: MSTS V1.2 http://tsinsider.com/Support/v1Downloads.aspx#tsupdate MSTS “Bin” http://mstsbin.uktrainsim.com/ Xtracks http://www.nklj.se/xtracks/XTracks.htm Signal's denoted with a MASTand/or off-set heads are intermediate, ABS, or advance signals. LEGEND 146N 147N 146S 147S 023T1 WESTWARD or 024T1 023T2 NORTHWARD SIGNALS EASTWARD 024T2 023T3 Stop Boards or SOUTHWARD 024T3 023T4 Crossing Pushbutton SIGNALS 024T4 Radio Tower Signal No.s denoted with an arrow Subway Overhead Grade Xing River Culverts for are intermediate, ABS, or advance signals. Bridge Bridge streams & rivers Farm Xing. Switch Blower SWITCHES Switch Heater 1 =#20 (45MPH) SS =#12 or Smaller Hot Box Scanner 3 =#16 (30MPH) Spring Switch 5 =#12 or Smaller (15MPH) Inoperative Semaphore Signal (Used as Approach) Station 102 C.R.O.Rule 102 Limits Foreign Owned Trackage C.R.O. Rule 102 Not Applicable 102 In CTC - Hand operated Swt. In ABS - X-over Swt. Foreign Owned Trackage Electric Lock 3 Mileage Post C.R.O. Rule 102 APPLICABLE Station Platform Splitrail Derail Station Platform CN Trackage - Out of Service No Longer in use. Regular Derail Out Building Switching Signal Route Available } Protection R Reflectorized crossbuck Crossing C.M.A. Zones (SDC) G Gates and Lights Lights and Bells only (Behind Frt. Speed Line) L W Wig-Wags C Crew Protect 304.6=275' 302.7=310' R3-0.00-1.30 Weston Sub. 03\07\25dmn Bathurst St. Toronto R4-0.00-1.25 Oakville Sub. 1.1 0.0 03\07\25dmn 42310 42414 Weston Sub. to To Parkdale ONLY CP Rail 1.09 GaltSub. To: Bathurst St. Western Lead North Yard Foreman's crossing INFORMATION C1 Flyunder C2 West Limits USRC = A Tracks= Mile 1.2 CTC CTC USRC 011T1 A2 USRC INTERNAL CN 118A2 011T2 A3 USRC to Union Stn. CTC FOR CTC 118A3 D1 USRC 009T3 USRC St. Oakville Sub. D2 96D1 009T4 96D2 Simcoe St. CTC CTC } USRC West LimitsUSRC = CTC CTC RTC: CH8T1, *5-460# USRC USRC USRC D Tracks= Mile 1.0 CTC USRC USRC John St. CTC 0.25 Oakville-Kingston North Connecting Track 003ND 001ND 3333ND USRC Oakville-Kingston South Connecting Track 004ND 1 003SD 002ND 1 001SD 3333SD CTC NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - CTC Foreman's Locked with 004SD 002SD USRC USRC IS crossing Special Lock John St. John St. Scott St. THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - FOR INTERNAL CN INFORMATION ONLY Former West East (USRC) Bathurst South Bathurst St. Storage Yard PSGR 60 1 Oakville Sub. 0 Kingston Sub. FRT 15 To Don Yard PSGR 45 1 Weston Sub. 0 FRT 15 RTC: CH4T2, Strachan R5-1.30-2.10 *5-011# Weston Sub. 1.5 USRC 06\02\01dmn West Limits Union Station Rail Corridor} 50 feet West of Strachan Ave. Crossing ONLY G For Both CN and CP Rail. CN = Mile 1.6 CP = Mile 1.45 1.99 1.59 (CP Mile 1.44) INFORMATION Crossing Foreman’s CTC Note: Westward movements = 30 MPH CTC USRC Mile 1.3 to 1.6 until Strachan Ave. occupied. USRC 1.63 Eastward movements = 30 MPH Mile 1.9 to 1.6 until Strachan Ave. occupied. 1.6 15N INTERNAL CN 158C1 15S North Track Weston Sub. FOR 158C2 15-1 South Track Weston Sub. 158GN 15-2 158GS CP Galt Sub. (514) 392-5393 CTC CTC North Track CP Galt Sub. USRC 102 USRC South Track CP Galt Sub. F700 Storage Down Frt. Ave. CN Weston Sub. 1.6 Strachan F701 NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - IS 102 King St. CP Galt Sub. 1.5 (CP Mile 1.97) THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - FOR INTERNAL CN INFORMATION ONLY 1.6 2 PSGR 55 PSGR 45 FRT 35 FRT 15 2.10 = 290' 1.30 = 257' Parkdale R3-2.40-3.65 R4-2.10-3.45 Newmarket Sub. Weston Sub. 99\09\23dmn 2.5 Weston Sub. 06\02\01dmn 2.4 Newmarket Sub. RTC: CH4T2, *5-011# (42250) 3.37 Antonio Gaspar ONLY Newmarket (Lakeview Fruit Market) Sub. 2.46 Sub 2.79 3.12 JCT SWT 3.45 Weston Sub. INFORMATION 2.54 Weston Sub 2.40 Newmarket Newmarket Sub 2.53 NewmarketSub. 2.49 Xing 2.44 Foreman's 35N 26 3 23N A INTERNAL CN 24N 1 B FOR 33-1 35S 25-1 24S 23S 33-2 26-1 25-2 26-2 102 CP Galt Sub. (514) 392-5393 NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - St. St. IS THIS IS NOT A LEGAL DOCUMENT - FOR INTERNAL CN INFORMATION ONLY (CP Mile 2.96) Queen St. (CP Mile 2.33) (CP Mile 2.62) Lansdowne Ave. (CP Mile 3.34) Dundas St. Brock Ave. 3 PSGR 55 FRT 35 3.45 = 355' 2.30 = 290' (WEST TORONTO DIAMOND) Bloor R5-3.45-5.10 To Davenport Weston Sub. Note: Remotely controlled by St.L&H RTC. 4.0 06\02\01dmn DO NOT ISSUE RULE 564 UNLESS CREW IS IN POSSESSION OF RULE 610 AUTHORITY FROM St.L&H RTC. ONLY G CP North Toronto Sub. 4.95 4.88 4.87 4.86 4.85 4.27 4.60 3.96 4.99 CP 0.23 57-2 Mactier Sub 01 CP 57-1 INFORMATION Mactier Sub. Former CP Former CP 03 Roadbed Roadbed 04 02 58-2 52N 58-1 47N INTERNAL CN XXXXXXXX FOR 52S 47S 59N SWT 43-1 47B 59S 46-1 03B 43-2 36-1 60N Old 60S 47-1 46-2 CP Galt Sub.
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