About This File
Oyez! Oyez!
The "Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express SimCity4éens" is proud to announce the debut of its rail services!
The "Orient Express" will take us safely and ecologically to all nearby and very distant regions, to bring out our sense of community, to improve our sociability, to spread culture, to facilitate inter-regional relations as well to improve work and business.
...All in its exclusive, comfortable, quiet interiors and with its distinctive exteriors!
Three train configurations are proposed for the "Orient Express" services, as following:
- PULLMAN:
this configuration, in a wonderful totally double color blue/white-cream livery, is for highly comfortable daytime travels.
Pullman-cars and pullman I class-cars are provided; cruising service-cars are usually available for meetings, meals or just for a drink.
- FARAWAY:
this configuration, in an understated and elegant single color blue livery, is intended for journeys even to the most remote regions, while having excellent dinners, spending relaxing moments having some drinks, eventually with our fellow travelers, even listening to music playing live in the background.
Sleeping-cars are provided; restaurant-cars, salon bar-cars and baggage_generator-cars are available.
- CRUISING:
this configuration is designed for leisure voyages; pullman-cars, pullman I class-cars (in blue/white-cream livery) and sleeping-cars (blue livery) allow a pleasant stay, and give the opportunity to spend some time in tranquility, maybe looking at the view from the window, and having some rest while reaching the next stage of the cruise.
Restaurant-cars, salon bar-cars, cruising service-cars and baggage_generator-cars are available for more comfort, amusement and delight.
All passengers-cars have comfortable night-lighting.
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INSTALLATION instructions:
This upload comes with a compressed file named "O E Train Set.zip" containing four folders:
- O E - Cruising Cars Set;
- O E - Faraway Cars Set;
- O E - Pullman Cars Set;
- O E - Train Engines Set
CHOSE ONE of the three configurations proposed (as described in presentation above), PICK UP the correspondent folder and PUT it in your plugins folder.
Since every chosen folder contains two more folders, HOLD the folder labeled "Required" and DELETE the files of unwanted additional cars in the "Additional" cars folder.
In order to avoid conflicts, only one folder labeled "Required" must be placed in the plugins folder at the same time.
The additional cars with different file names can be used all together at the same time. However, to have better results, it is convenient to use only the additional cars proposed for the chosen configuration.
The fourth folder contains two passengers engines, the E444R “Tartaruga”, presented in two livery: one replacing the original in-game engine, in a O E stile – livery; the second one being an additional engine, in an original livery.
If you wish to run the O. E. train with the engines proposed in this set, then PICK UP the fourth folder, labeled “O E - Train Engines Set” and put it in your plugins folder. In order to avoid conflicts, only one engine that replace the in-game original one must be placed in the plugins folder.
Off course, each Mayor, as operator of railway systems in her / his regions, will be able to choose the preferred engines for passengers trains in order to operate the "Orient Express", allowing the regular provision of its services and avoiding to use the in-game original passengers engine due ugly results (see below in credit section).
(Please, let me know for any unforeseen problems and suggestions.)
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CREDITS
A suitable set of engines and steam engines, for both additional and replacing the original in-game passengers engine (and also freight wagons and engines and passengers cars), can be found in the great "1950s German trains" set, by Rivit, where are found the passengers-cars and the engines 3D models for all the re-skins I made for this upload, and that you can find here:
https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21180-1950s-german-trains/
A very special thanks to Rivit!
Another set of passengers engines, made by Girafe, can be found here:
https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3912.
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For further information about the real Orient Express – CIWL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Express;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnie_Internationale_des_Wagons-Lits; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_car;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice-Simplon_Orient_Express;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmond_Limited.
Pictures used in presentation of this upload are for evocation purposes only and are found on the World Wide Web.
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CHANGE LOG
Files have been modified significantly to reduce use of memory and the O. E. Train Set now contains two brand new passengers engines, as kindly suggested to me by Rivit.
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What's New 1.1.0 View Changelog
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- Files have been modified significantly to reduce use of memory, one file have been fixed and the O. E. Train Set now contains two brand new passengers engines;
- Added one more picture.
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