[WIP] The Trolleybus Project

Plastikman · Post by **Plastikman** » 03 May 2006 02:00

yup you made excatly what i made. i also discoverd when you overhead wire the road, the busses try and pass. they cant do that in real life. so i used the tram idea per my initial post when i said i was gonna try it.

Costas · Post by **Costas** » 03 May 2006 12:10

of course they can overtake, there r double overhead wires on top so trolleybuses can wait in a stop without stoping all traffic plus the drivers get out and move the poles all the time (well they did in greece)

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 12:59

Someone should make this a thing that stays posted at the top of the forum. I dunno what it's called but hopefully you get what I mean.

EDIT: It's a Sticky.

G-TANK-G · Post by **G-TANK-G** » 03 May 2006 14:27

this is very good mate, i've even modded the c/e tram to be able to drive on it.
however, you cannot make a level crossing with a normal track...or is that meant to be the idea?

Seelenquell · Post by **Seelenquell** » 03 May 2006 14:37

therefore the trackst.dat and/or trackng.dat must be changed. compability-stuff..

wyctor · Post by **wyctor** » 03 May 2006 18:18

Plastikman wrote:yup you made excatly what i made. i also discoverd when you overhead wire the road, the busses try and pass. they cant do that in real life. so i used the tram idea per my initial post when i said i was gonna try it.

well, i don't know where and when have you released it, but if it's true, sorry, i haven't seen it before...And I don't know why are you telling that the trolley buses can pass...NO, THEY CAN'T...I made this "option" for roads from the tram track, and when I use it, they cannot pass each other...

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 19:41

wyctor wrote:
Plastikman wrote:yup you made excatly what i made. i also discoverd when you overhead wire the road, the busses try and pass. they cant do that in real life. so i used the tram idea per my initial post when i said i was gonna try it.
well, i don't know where and when have you released it, but if it's true, sorry, i haven't seen it before...And I don't know why are you telling that the trolley buses can pass...NO, THEY CAN'T...I made this "option" for roads from the tram track, and when I use it, they cannot pass each other...

OMG so if you make 3 platforms you can have normal buses not passing.

That's so cool. Also I noticed there's a new law in Ottawa (For Bus Drivers)

The New Law: Buses cannot pass that stop if they have to stop there. Meaning untill they pull up to where the Bus Stop Sign is they cannot leave and have to wait.

Anyway back on topic. Since we can make the buses not pass with this mod. Why don't we convert all the buses we know off. Including the default buses. Then we can add the trolley buses.

(First I gotta test out this trolley bus mod)

wyctor · Post by **wyctor** » 03 May 2006 20:20

Breeze646 wrote:
wyctor wrote:
Plastikman wrote:yup you made excatly what i made. i also discoverd when you overhead wire the road, the busses try and pass. they cant do that in real life. so i used the tram idea per my initial post when i said i was gonna try it.
well, i don't know where and when have you released it, but if it's true, sorry, i haven't seen it before...And I don't know why are you telling that the trolley buses can pass...NO, THEY CAN'T...I made this "option" for roads from the tram track, and when I use it, they cannot pass each other...
OMG so if you make 3 platforms you can have normal buses not passing.

That's so cool. Also I noticed there's a new law in Ottawa (For Bus Drivers)

The New Law: Buses cannot pass that stop if they have to stop there. Meaning untill they pull up to where the Bus Stop Sign is they cannot leave and have to wait.

Anyway back on topic. Since we can make the buses not pass with this mod. Why don't we convert all the buses we know off. Including the default buses. Then we can add the trolley buses.

(First I gotta test out this trolley bus mod)

No...In Hungary normal buses can overtake trolleybuses, if they don't have to stop there. But in this mod, normal buses cannot pass the trolleys

And yes, we should convert all known buses, but the trolley buses have pantographs, to we have to change the graphics..

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 20:23

Well here in Ottawa I was meaning because OC Transpo received tomany complaints about buses going by there stop and having to wait like 30 minutes for the next one.

Oh ya I love how you can put the trolley bus network tile thing on the tram tracks. Atlest with that I can run my buses almost everywhere.
And Yeah convert all known buses and I'm going to try to start converting. (Atlest the default ones)

wyctor · Post by **wyctor** » 03 May 2006 20:25

SQ's MAn Ng272 could be a very good articulated trolley bus...It would look like IKarus 435T

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 20:26

Yeah but right now I'm just converting the default diesel buses. (Or atlest trying to)

Okay first attempt is the GMC Classic and will have a No-Breakdown mod.

BTW I think it will be a good one too.

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 20:52

Aw man this is harder then I thought. Oh well. I'm going to try a few more times.

Seelenquell · Post by **Seelenquell** » 03 May 2006 21:01

do you draw the pantograph on each of the 64 frames manually? thats a lot of work to do..

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 21:31

No I was just trying to convert the current buses like the GM Classic. I ain't even going to attempt that untill I succesfully convert a normal bus. Which I sort of give up. I ain't succeding.

BTW Instead of being like a real Trolley bus. Maybe we should have 1 trolley pole on the bus since we only have 1 line above the bus line.

Looks more realisic (or game realisic)

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 03 May 2006 23:54

Aw man I need help converting em. I tryed all the tools advaible.

I give up can someone else convert the current buses then start on the Electric buses. Atlest a former request of mine is coming true. No Passing Bus Mod.

Plastikman · Post by **Plastikman** » 04 May 2006 01:59

wyctor wrote:
Plastikman wrote:yup you made excatly what i made. i also discoverd when you overhead wire the road, the busses try and pass. they cant do that in real life. so i used the tram idea per my initial post when i said i was gonna try it.
well, i don't know where and when have you released it, but if it's true, sorry, i haven't seen it before...And I don't know why are you telling that the trolley buses can pass...NO, THEY CAN'T...I made this "option" for roads from the tram track, and when I use it, they cannot pass each other...

i never released it because andel i did it while on vacation and came back and andel was 90% done. I said thats why i used the tram conversion instead of adding power lines to a road, i dont want them to pass! the ones i remember riding in california sucked if you were on an empty one behind a full one. we kept having to stop so the one in front can unload

. also at one point, there was a truck in the way and the bus could not quite get around it. i guess the truck was unloading thought there was enough room. other then those headaches, it was a great system. less smog and less cost then petrol i assume. the public transpotation systems in callifornia seem to be pretty good.

metalangel · Post by **metalangel** » 04 May 2006 09:41

Costas wrote:of course they can overtake, there r double overhead wires on top so trolleybuses can wait in a stop without stoping all traffic plus the drivers get out and move the poles all the time (well they did in greece)

They didn't ever do that in Toronto, that's for sure. There were a number of short turn loops (with wires) that the buses could go into, but I don't think they ever overtook each other. Having re-wired a trolley pole myself, it's not easy or fun!

wyctor · Post by **wyctor** » 04 May 2006 16:52

made GM Classic to run on Trolley Bus way

Sorry Breeze646...

Breeze646 · Post by **Breeze646** » 04 May 2006 19:44

Lol good job. I gave up anyway after I tryed everything. I guess I won't be converting em.

Now we have a normal bus on the bus way. Hmm I have big plans for a big transit bus system. Now I can get rid of some of my tram routes that don't need it because it's hardly carrys any people. Thanks!!!

BTW No need to be sorry. It's okay.

Any plans for the Buses that Seelenquell made? And after where done this converting all the buses. We shall start on the Trolley Buses. Hopefully this won't take long.

wyctor · Post by **wyctor** » 04 May 2006 19:57

not a very big work...you have to write the anytrack bit from 1 to 0, and you have to put in the eowroad1 require variable, rename the vehicle, and the compatibe name, and make the dat.

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