***Pindamonhangaba to Expedicionária BVE route (Short Version)***

Pinda to Piracuama (short version) is a BVE route still under construction.
This route is based on the real line, kept by Estrada de Ferro Campos 
do Jordão (EFCJ) since its foundation in 1914. All the tracks were
electrified in 1924 by The English Electric Company, which provided
all the rolling stock too (currently being used and in good shape yet).


I am providing here the first 13 Km of this route. While you download,
play and enjoy, I am going to code and finish the 8 Km remaining.
Portraying a real line is not so easy as a fictional line.


IMPORTANT NOTES: 
-You should ask permission first about the usage of my 
EFCJ's freeobjs in your own route, if you are a routebuilder.
These .b3d files contains an observation at the beginning of each file. 
If you ask permission, I will certainly let you use them, of course!!

-Some of the objects are public domain, others are intellectual
 property copyrighted to its respective authors. 
 Their names are placed at the beginning of each file too.

-This is a nice detailed route. If you have a low-spec machine, you
 can experience low frame rates on certain parts of the route, mainly
 the beginning (departing from Pinda). If this is your case, just try
 to decrease your Drawing Distance from 600 down to 400 or 300 metres.
 You may want to reboot your computer. In this case, check out your
 TSR programs and avoid using other applications while launching BVE.


SOME INTERESTING FACTS:
Total time spent making this route: 7 months (and another 5 
months will come)
My simple free object demanded 20 minutes to be done
My most complex object demanded 7 hours to be done


MY CREDITS TO:

-Mackoy, who deserves a pat on the shoulder, for providing us with 
 this superb train sim for free;

-Oskaari Saarekas (the truss bridge over river Parahyba);

-Don Clarke (his so-versatile bigslope2.b3d);

-Steve Green (some of his basic grounds);

-Uwe Post, who kindly let me use your Field1.b3d and textures, from his
 route demo using Routebuilder, indispensable to become my route more  real.

-Peter Schoetz, who kindly let me use some of his train sounds
 (BVG  A-II, from http://bve-train.de/)

-Martin Finken, who always replied my posts gently, giving me some 
 valuable feedback too.

-Ruediger Huelsmann and his Switch Utility (all curves and switches)



SPECIAL THANKS TO:

-Luigi Cartello, for his valuable tips (via e-mail) on how to use 
 cylinders and cubes in .b3d format. 
 I also used his tutorials on how to change several properties on 
 (Coordinates) section in .b3d files, which were a mystery for me  before.

-My mother Maria Goncalves (and her endless patience with me);

-All of you who like my work and visit my homepage regularly.



Thank you for downloading this route!!
(The work still continues...)


João Carlos Goncalves (a.ka John Goncalves), Brazil
http://joaocg.topcities.com
E-Mail Address: joaocg@iconet.com.br
(with several projects in mind...)


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