Midwest Central -- V3 Beta 1E

Midwest Central -- V3 Beta 1E

Midwest Central - Release 3 Beta1E - September 2008

Midwest Central is a fictional short line operating through the busy heartland of the United States. An update to both the original MidCen route and Release 2, Release 3 adds the final 15 miles to the city of Westfield, where MidCen has an interchange with Union Pacific. The east-to-west double track mainline is 50 miles, about a 70-minute run at track speed, and features tracking cameras throughout.

Release 3 spans over 200 baseboards, with more than 40 industries, now including limestone, bauxite, building materials and an automobile plant. Amtrak passenger service is handled through six stations. New for Release 3 Beta1 are Midwest Central auto-numbering GP38-2's, Majekear's auto-numbering open hoppers, and configuable auto carriers.

Beta1 comes with five sessions: A Base Session for designing your own sessions using the MidCen map, 'Monday Morning Rail', a passenger session. and three freight sessions. Find them and other MidCen content by searching for my userid: crb001. CAUTION: If you download any Midwest Central operating sessions for this route, make sure they are specific to MidCen Release 3. Sessions created for the original, MidCen Build 360, and for Release 2 will not work with this map, and vice versa.

Before operating Midwest Central, do yourself a favor and visit the MidCen website, where you'll find a wealth of information about the route, including a printable system map, operations manual, missing dependencies and the latest bug fix information. In addition, you'll find printable Form 19 train orders for the downloadable sessions. http://trains.0catch.com.

Revision history:
Original version:
MidCen build 360: 135 baseboards; May 2007

MidCen Release 2:
180 baseboards; January 2008

MidCen Release 3:
210 baseboards; September 2008

Midwest Central is a large route. Fast computers, with 2+gb of RAM and modern graphics cards with 256mb or more are recommended.

Midwest Central -- V3 Beta 1E
• config.txt 102.86KB
• engines-240.jpg 15.55KB
• mapfile.bmk 330 bytes
• mapfile.gnd 30.04MB
• mapfile.obs 771.46KB
• mapfile.trk 687.63KB