Transport Fever 2

Transport Fever 2

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CIWL Orient Express and Venice-Simplon Orient Express set
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Scenario: Europe
Vehicle: Wagon
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Dec 24, 2021 @ 8:21am
Dec 27, 2021 @ 9:37am
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CIWL Orient Express and Venice-Simplon Orient Express set

Description
Companie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des grands express europeens expansion mod
Started on 1883, the Orient Express became the most iconic service realized by the Compangie Internationale des Wagons-Lits became. Originaly knew as the Express d'Orient, the first route, was from Paris, Gare de l'Est, to Giurgiu in Romania via Munich and Vienna. On June 1891, the remaned as Orient Express finally reached Istambul, at that time knew as Constantinople.
After a breakdown on services due to World War I, a second route for the Orient Express was added, via Milan, Venice and Trieste, the known as Simplon-Orient Express. This service the most popular route during 20s and 30s. On the 30s the Lx CIWL coaches, which were the most luxury coaches used on the CIWL were introduced on the routes, adquiring the Orient Express its reputation as luxury train. On 30s three different services were running at same time, the original Orient-Express, the Simplon-Orient Express and the Arlberg Orient Express, via Zürich and Budapest.
On 1939, as most of the CIWL services, the Orient Express stop running untill 1946. On the following year conflicts between Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey forced to stop some of the services serveral times. On 1962 the Original Orient Express and the Arlberg Orient Express stop running and the Simplon service were renamed as Direct Orient-Express.
In 1971, the Wagon-Lits company stopped running carriages itself. Instead, it sold or leased all its carriages to the various national railway companies, but continued to provide staff for the carriages. After that, the CIWL coaches were replaced by daily coaches. At 19th May 1977 the last Direct Orient Express runned between Paris and Istanbul, being the end of the original services. Otherwise the name remained in use for some intercity services offered by the national companies.
In 1982, the Venice-Simplon Orient Express was established as a private venture, running restored 1920s and 1930s carriages from London to Venice. The coaches were modernized addding new interiors and replacing the original bogies, increassing the top speed of the coaches. Nowadays this service still running with a stupid-high price between London and Venice.
This mod add the 1930s Lx series CIWL coaches with Orient-Express destination plattes and the 1980s modernized coaches used for the Venice-Simplon Orient Express.


Specificities :
  • Available from : from 1929
  • Top speed (km/h) : 130km/h or 160km/h(VSOE)
  • Weight (t) : 38 to 54 tons


Mod specs :
  • High-res DDS texture
  • Dirt and rust texture also available
  • Assets with height settings available[/list]


14 Comments
crogiez Jan 30 @ 4:40am 
même que tom cruise il a refabriqué le train en virtuel , pour tout le casser à la fin
Anrhok (GER) Jan 11 @ 12:41pm 
Kann mich noch gut erinnern wie hier vor Jahren in Mönchengladbach der Orient Express gestanden hat. Der wurde im Werk Uerdingen restauriert und modernisiert. Da das Werk in Uerdingen aber nicht viel Platz hatte wurden die Wagen am nächst besten freien größeren Bahnhof abgestellt, was Mönchengladbach war. Selbst jetzt steht hier noch eine alte E95
Mequana|メクアナ Jan 2, 2022 @ 4:44pm 
Yo, Happy New Year Raptor! Could you maybe give me the link to this TPF Discord you are on? Because i used to be on it, but then a scammer got in my Discord DMs. I Reporter him and 3 hours later my Account got deactivated. So now i've a new Account but can't find the server.
kasperhkj Dec 27, 2021 @ 1:38pm 
No problem. How about the missing end date of some of the salon cars? Is that also an oversight or is that deliberate?
jorgenb96  [author] Dec 27, 2021 @ 9:09am 
Yes, the capacity was a thing we changed late on the base mod, but I forgot to change on this mod models. Thanks for notice!
kasperhkj Dec 27, 2021 @ 8:31am 
Awesome mod! But could you please change the sleeping car capacity to match the ones in the CIWL steel base mod? Otherwise the trains end up being very heavy for the amount of people they carry.
Since Tpf2 doesn't really account for luxury, I don't think that the usual 1:4 in-game/real-life passenger ratio makes sense for these sleeping cars. Using the same 1:1 ratio as in the other mod gives numbers that are more consistent with similarly-sized day cars.
(restaurant cars and salon cars still work fine with the 1:4 ratio).
RaptorArk  [author] Dec 27, 2021 @ 3:00am 
allright, we will check and fix the issue. Thanks for your notification! :D
berndthebread Dec 27, 2021 @ 2:20am 
really cool mod, thanks a lot! what I noticed is that while the wheels follow the tracks the bogies continue straight for a little bit on switches. https://imgur.com/a/HEYOdcR
Schweizerleague Dec 25, 2021 @ 4:11pm 
wooow thanks much, just id love to see piano inside of venice simplon restaurant coach :steamhearteyes:
mike485 Dec 25, 2021 @ 1:05pm 
Just built the Paris to Istanbul run on a meglo map of Europe, the Atlantic and eastern USA out to Chicago. Had to find cars to emulate the Orient Express. Now I can use these. Prefect! Thanks a lot