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Minor updates to final versions of the Main South line out of Adelaide to Belair and Bridgwater (for suburban services), and to Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend for Intrastate (with South Australia) and Interstate (en route to Victoria). Due to restrictions on file size, recently imposed by Freeservers.com, we have now had to split the zips of each tracks directory into two.

You may now download the Pichi-Richi route from Port-Augusta to Quorn, and the North-eastern main line from Adelaide to Gawler. You may be able to access the Barossa and southern lines as well.

The current scene...
Of the 26 routes that can be placed in a RailSim tracks directory, we have 26 which you can copy to (perhaps) str0, and a number of others as well. The zips include a text information file. Further files will be added in due course, with a view to creating a library across all the available directories.

In order to force travelling on the left hand track on dual tracks, a non-prototypical reduction to a single left-hand track has been created at the starting stations - a suggestion from Martin van der Veer.

The 3ft-6ins gauge route from Port Augusta to Quorn is complete. The third rail inside the standard gauge track from Stirling North to Port Augusta was lifted in the 1960s, but we have created the route basically as it was originally constructed.

The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society have completed laying 3ft-6ins gauge track along the Causeway between Stirling North and Port Augusta, connecting their railhead at Stirling North with the dock platform at Port Augusta. It was therefore a wise decision not to truncate the RailSim route, to terminate at Stirling North.

Pichi-Richi are now running steam and diesel-hauled trains running on this parallel track to the national standard gauge railway, connecting with scheduled Indian-Pacific trains - and perhaps Bluebird chartered services. Information is on their website at http://www.prr.org.au

Back to RailSim, work is finished on the Broad Gauge 1600mm (5ft-3ins gauge) lines from Adelaide to North Gawler, using some track files produced a few years ago by another developer. These comprise the suburban run between Adelaide station and Gawler (in both directions) and a goods run (both ways) between Mile End and North Gawler. These have been extended to form a range of northern Broad-Gauge tracks including the Penrice - Osborne "Stonie" (Limestone to the ICI company's kilns) hauled for many years by 900-class diesels.

A very limited amount of work has been done on Adelaide - Snowtown and Snowtown - Crystal Brook or Port Pirie (depending on era)

Work has stalled on the lines to Mount Pleasant and Victor Harbour.

However, the Willunga line has been completed to both Adelaide Station and to Mile End Goods, and may - no promises - include as an extra the proposed extension to Yankalilla (which was never built). This route also made possible the suburban route from Adelaide to Noarlunga Centre (now completed), which may include the never built extension to Seaford.

The two Adelaide commuter services, outwards and return via a balloon loop, have also been constructed; these are the Penfield (WRE/DSTO line) and the Outer Harbour Steamer berth line. Also, the Adelaide to Port Adelaide (Dock Station) route has been completed.

We hope to also provide both of the train routes to Glenelg prior to one being dismantled and the other converted to a standard gauge tram. The "inter-urban" Adelaide to Glenelg electric tram may therefore also be a starter... this runs almost the whole length of its route in a seperate corridor previously occupied by a railway. It is also the earliest example in South Australian history of a standard gauge track.

The future...
Regarding interstate routes; a small amount of information is at hand for the Narrow Gauge Eastern Main out of Perth to Northam, but work is still at a halt.

The eventual production of Melbourne to Ballaarat, and maybe the entire Melbourne - Adelaide corridor could be a "goer".

Jens Schubert tells me he still hopes to produce a demo version of the RailSim program with a portion of our Main South Line on it for the interest of Australian devotees. It will probably use an F7 locomotive, but the specs of an F7 are almost identical with the Victorian B or the first series Commonwealth GM's.

Driver's Control Stand Project...
We are still looking at an economical way to parcel all the pieces together, so there is no time scale on this.

Two variations of control stand could be offered... both essentially compromises. One could be similar to the EMD Roller Switch Controller first provided with GM, S, and a number of hood locos (WAGR A's and L's, Victorain T, X, etc); the other could be similar to the desktop "back-hoe" controls as standardised across Australia with the DL's of AN and since that time.

However an easier to operate version might have two seperate control stands, one for brakes and the other for throttle, similar to the ergonomically laid out controls of the Western Australian S-Class locos, and Queensland Railways' 4000-class, for whom Adelaide company Sydac recently built semi-trailer based transportable drivers' simulators.

Perhaps a "do-it-yourself" kits of parts that you hook into your own keyboard will be useful; this will require technical expertise to work out what connections to make - but will be very much cheaper to produce. Please write in with suggestions.

While this control stand concept was initially designed for RailSim, the philosophy behind it is such that it will work with any computer programme that requires keyboard presses for control. There are several such simulators on the market, and unfortunately they all use different dedicated keypresses.