Train Dispatcher 3 (favorites)

[zwspnby9]

My favorite dispatching territory is BNSF's Emporia sub from Wellington to Kansas City, KS.

What is your favorite dispatching territory?

[youngengineer]

its funny I happened to read that as I run part of that route, usually on dog catches out of newton. mostly run ds 17 territory ark city sub, strong city, la junta. I pitty ds 17 most of the time, especially day light. ds 17 definetely has his/her hands full, I try always to say thank you and please especially on local 9

[Chris30]

If you're refering to the BNSF Kansas Division Sept 17-23, 2000 created by Fred Frailey, then I agree with you zwspnby9. Actually, anything by Fred Frailey is good.

My other favorite is my own territory for the UP (ex CNW) Geneva sub between Clinton, IA (mp 138.9) and Chicago, IL (MP 0.0) current spring '06. It is a point-terminal board. I've been working on this territory for a couple of years, trying to keep it up to date with all of the changes that the UP/Metra has been making. It covers the territory of UP DS11, UP East End DS, Metra A-2 (Western Ave) Tower, Lake St Tower (Ogilvie Transportation Center), EJE W. Chicago Tower and some other very minor yard movements at Proviso and Global III. With up to 100 UP freight moves a day and Metra trains from six different lines converging at OCT and Western Ave., daily weekday train movements can exceed 400 per day!! Did I tell you that I like action? Throw in freight terminal delays, suburban territory with minimum space to hold freights, block swapping, T&T and few other surprises. Want to try it? Let me know. I'm currently updating a few issues - the main thing I need to work on is redoing all 21 start times. I should have everyhting back together by Sunday night. So, like Clint Eastwood said... If you're feeling lucky...

CC

[zwspnby9]

Oh, Chris, I thought UP's Triple track main was medium hard, I am up to trying it! However, I might make a few thousand trains stop waiting for the signals because I am not very, very good yet! He he heee! And yeah, I would like to Chris.

[kolechovski]

Has anybody dound any good prices for Train Dispatcher 3 yet? I've waited a long time for the price to come down, but I still haven't sen any real deals yet. I've just played the Demo version to death.

[chad thomas]

Where do you get the demo version. This sounds like fun. If it is I will throw down the $$$ for it.

[kolechovski]

It took some looking, but I found the URL:

http://www.signalcc.com/train3/td3demo.exe

You can also get addicted to Tran Master's demo here:

http://www.signalcc.com/trainmaster/demo.html

Oh, BTW, the TD3 demo expires each session after 2-5 game hours, at random. If it kills things off before you can get into it, just start it again. TD can be run on even low-end computers, but you have to have a decent compy to run TM.

[rvos1979]

For those who are interested, Signal Computer Consultants website is www.softrail.com, they sell Train Dispatcher 3.5, Track Builder, territories (pay and freeware), and other items.

I'd be interested in your works, Chris, I'm currently working on former Wisconsin Central territories between Chicago and Superior. I've had territories on sale at softrail.com for several years now, and have tried to update as time goes on. I'm currently interested in current signaling and train schedule sheets for between Chicago and the US-Canada border.

[kolechovski]

I'm not sure how well terrorists do for sale. Of course I'd get all that I could if they were free. After purchasing a product, I hate to have to pay for more, unless they were well worth their $.