L'Etoile de Gray in 1938 Route for MSTS  
Michel Bonnard  2010

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A LITTLE BACKGROUND:

L'Etoile de Gray in 1938

Michel Bonnard

This route for Microsoft Train Simulator, is designed for driving enthusiasts of Steam and amateur students of old and unusual equipment. it will give you the opportunity to drive the 130B, 230 K, 240 A and 131 TB Is header charming mixed trains bus. Despite the apparent simplicity, certain activities will appeal to your dexterity to manipulate the controller and the inverter! It is 1938, the eve of the Munich conference, the international situation has led to troop movements. You ride a tractor, a curious petroleo-electric Crochat at the head a consist Rame ALVF (Heavy Artillery on railroad)

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"In 1838, the Chamber of Commerce of Gray Called on the authorities to establish a rail line between Gray and Blesme Haussignemont (between Vitry le Francois and StDizier) to transport metal products in the region. Gray was at that time the center of iron ore seams, (the ore available at the surface having been exhausted), treated and processed locally by blast furnaces powered with charcoal. At that time coke fired blast furnaces did not exist. Because of the Revolution and administrative delays, this route through Chalindrey did not become the center of the rail network that we know; work at Langres and Chaumont, only started in 1848, at the time a part of line 4 which had not actually reached that far. 

However at that time the PLM wanted to connect Gray to Besancon, and especially Auxonne, which would then allow a connection between various centres of metallurgical industries, including Creusot among other big consumers of low carbon iron ore from Gray. This explains why Gray became the interchange station for Est/PLM. The Est company realizing it then had a connection with Dijon via Is sur Tille. This link was later extended to Chatillon sur Seine and then toTroyes with the focus and main reason being the traffic flow of metal products ... 

Gray and Vesoul were connected at the request of military authorities of the time as a strategic line for rapid movement of troops from the south, for which reason it was built with double track. 

Until 1938, Gray was an important rail center bigger even than Chalindrey and even saw the passage of international trains bound for Switzerland and even Italy.
The first unexpected hard blow was in 1938 when the then very new SNCF sold the single-track Gray Chalindrey line to the Company of the Economic Railroads ancestor of the CFTA and entrusted passenger traffic between Gray and Vesoul to the same company. Indeed unable to compete with modern iron and steel industry with the coke fired blast furnaces, the local iron and steel industry had ceased exploitation of the iron ores, the last charcoal blast furnace closing in 1920 Mechanical engineering replaced the furnaces  the construction of tractors, stoves and cookers. The remainder of the goods traffic forwarding by Gray was made up of wine from the Midi and coal from the Saone coming to Gray to be transhipped on trains. At that time an important military center ensured also a considerable traffic. In 1940, the bridge on the Saone of the line of Besancon was dynamited by the French troops in retirement and never rebuilt. At the beginning of the 70s CFTA ceased passenger traffic from Gray to Chalindrey, to Is on Tille and Chatillon and Vesoul. The single-track line to Chalindrey was removed iron and the line to Vesoul was used for occasional cereal trains to Autet, no longer used by velo rails to Mont Vernois it is little used and only remains because it is still classified strategic line. The station (at Gray?) is now a temple of Jehovas. Witnesses


REASON FOR CHOOSING 1938

Several lines met at Gray. The station still had its double awning modelled on the station at Vesoul. It was destroyed in 1944 along with the main buildings by American bombardment. They were never rebuilt, but the station remained in use.. The transfer to the CFE only happened at the end of the year, thus in the time of the SNCF.
Some fast trains and expresses, certain international trains and many goods trains used the station.
And then in September 1938 there was a renewal of military activities following the Munich coup and a battery (of anti-aircraft guns?) was stationed there for a few weeks. The author has modelled this battery and you can add the Crochat locotracteur modelled by Stefane Keller Stef 38. 
At the declaration of war in 1939, a hundred engines of American origin, 140G and H, were sent to Gray. the reason for this storage is unknown.

In 1938 the Gray depot included about sixty engines from the Est and PLM companies From the Est came 130B, 230B, 230TA, 040B, armistice18, some other antiquities, such as the Gudmont and especially the Rimaucourt which still runs on the Ajecta. From the PLM, 040B and 050B, certain 140J and 141C and also other engines of which we do not have information.

Gray was in 1975 the last steam depot in France and continues the maintenance of some steam engines,but mostly locotracteurs and other diesels.

DESCRIPTION 
The V1 attached reproduces the two lines north Chalindrey Gray and Gray-Vesoul. Soon we will reach Is sur Tille, then Chatillon sur Seine and finally Troyes before heading to Auxonne and Besancon. 
  
DOWNLOAD 
Route 

L'Etoile.exe
Part2 
part3 
part4 
part5 

Consists
  

INSTALLATION 
The V1 is in the form of a self-extracting archive and spanned files, you only have to specify the destination path of your file ROUTE and then click on the Exe first part of the archive. When this is complete, you will need to run in the final Installme bat. This will complete the installation of the route.

The specific Rolling Stock material is also attached in the form of another archive. 

-Specific Hardware Pack 
  
-List of equipment not provided 

Other equipment is available on the Internet. You will find a list with download links. 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
Special mention to my colleagues in the Academy-Train Simulations for their technical assistance ... 
A Philippe Guillaume who has very much to the necessary documentation to the development of the line .... 
And to all the creators of objects and materials and routes, too numerous to mention them all, but especially Alain CHEUTON (Trajan), Roger Morot and all other creators that I have not named individuall but who i want to recgonize.

Brighton March 2010

Transliterated by Tony and CrisGer with permission of Michel Bonnard.

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List of Rolling Stock Material For the Route:

Liste du matriel ncessaire aux activits de " L'etoile de Gray
 
130B Est Pack Matriel  disponible en page de tlchargement
  Ou A la pice sur

Trains de mes dix ans.com
http://www.trains-de-mes-dix-ans.com/
 
230 K Est 
240 TE Est 
Autorail De Dion NT 
Locotracteur Crochat 
Voiture Est PL 
VoitureC_6 AB2s Ef 
Ambulant postal 2 essieux OCEM 
Fougon Est 
Rame ALVF  
  
  
Matriel non fourni dans le pack
   
Voitures TY Train-sim France
http.//www.trainsimfrance.net 

Allge 26 M 
Bifoudre Rail Atelier   
Locomotive 140 C http://railatelier.free.fr 
Locomotive 140C 287   
Locomotive 131 B est le train Virtuel  http://le-train-virtuel.net 
F_Muwf ( ocem 1929) Pierre Gauriat http://ajtrainsim.free.fr 
Voitures Express Est  Les pages de BB 25187

(Vincent Lorquet )
http://www.bb25187.eu 

Citernes OCEM 
Autorail X42000 De Dietrich 
Fourgon OCEM 
Plat OCEM 
VH STEF  BB 9004
 http://www;bb9004.net 
VH citerne TP 1918 
VH Couvert 
VH Fourgon est 3 pattes 
VH fourgon fret 
VH GTG 
VH MH 
VH Millet 
VH ARBEL 
VH OCEM FL 
VH plat 2S 
VH Sanders 
VH fret 1928 
  


