MSTS Indian Railways (How to install Indian Electric/Diesel Locos,coaches and routes)

MSTS Indian Railways installation

1. Download MSTS (Microsoft Train Simulator) from here.
2. Install DAEMON TOOLS LITE 4.0 from here.
3. Now Install DAEMON TOOLS LITE 4.0 and double click on the shortcut at the desktop.
4. Mount the 1st image MSTS1.nrg  and run it. You will see the INSTALL option.CLICK on it. CLICK NEXT ARROW. Now it will ask for whether to install Adobe Reader. It's your choice whether to install it or not. After installing it you will see 2 options.

• Install Train Simulator with default installation options. (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator)
• Customize installation options.

If you choose the 1st option it will install it at a default location. I would like to suggest not to do this.

Select second option i.e.Customize installation options.CLICK NEXT ARROW.

1. Create one folder MSTS IR in any local drive other than C. e.g. D:\MSTS IR
2. Now CLICK on Change button. Select your folder to install e.g. D:\MSTS IR and CLICK NEXT ARROW.
3. When 27% install is complete it will ask for the 2nd disk. Now go to DAEMON TOOL and remove disk1 i.e. MSTS1.nrg and mount disk2 i.e. MSTS2.nrg and click OK. Now, WAIT till installation completes.CLICK on exit when 100% is done.
4. It is the stage of completion of traditional MSTS game which DON'T have Indian addons.
5. NOW Interesting part comes. We are going to install Indian Add-ons.

• Train Update1.exe (7.03 MB).Download link is here. (Find MSTS v1.4 Train Simulator Update at the bottom & download it and other two are not needed (class-50 and sd-40 updates are not needed))
• MSTSPatch1.8.052113en (3.54 MB) Download from here. (Click on Download tab at left side and Go to the bottom of page and download)
• Setup MSTS_SW (11.6 MB) Download from here. (Click on Download tab at left side and Go to the bottom of the page and see Screens & widgets and download)
• xtracks (17.3 MB) Download from here. (Select Download as END-USER)
• newroads (17.0 MB) Download from here. (Select Download as END-USER)

2. Now I will tell how to install this software.
4. Create one temporary folder on the desktop.
5. Now double click on Train Update1.exe and unzip the files in that temporary folder on the desktop. Copy those files into your MSTS IR folder. Overwrite whenever necessary. This will update your MSTS to version 1.4.

13. Now double click on Train Update1.exe and unzip the files in that temporary folder on the desktop. Copy those files into your MSTS IR folder. Overwrite whenever necessary. This will update your MSTS to version 1.4.

14. Now unzip MSTSPatch1.8.052113en anywhere let's say on the desktop and double click on Patch 1.8.052113en.exe.Select destination folder as your MSTS IR.e.g.D:\MSTS IR.Install it.

15. Create one temporary folder beside your MSTS IR folder.

16. Now double click on MSTS_SW.exe and install it into that temporary folder. Now double click on your temporary folder. Double click on Train Simulator folder inside it. Double click it.U will find Gui folder. Just copy that folder and paste into MSTS IR. Overwrite whenever necessary. Delete all temporary folders created.

17. Now it's time to extract xtracks.zip and newroads.zip.

18. Extract xtracks.zip on the desktop. You will find XTracks.exe file. Double click on it. Follow instructions and install it into MSTS IR folder.

19. Extract newroads.zip on the desktop. You will find the NewRoads folder. Double click on it. You will see the NewRoads_V40_MSTS1_Setup.exe file. Double click on it and Follow instructions and install it into MSTS IR folder.

20. That's it. You are done !!! Now no other s/w needed for installing Indian Railways version.

21. Now I will show you How To :

Install Indian Electric/Diesel locomotive.

Install Indian Route.

Create Indian consist.

Install Indian Passenger Activity.

22. First, create an account on www.trainsim.com to download content from that website.

23. Before installation of Indian add-ons, I will explain to you what each folder in MSTS IR stands for. Inside MSTS IR there will be two folders ROUTES & TRAINS. Inside TRAINS there will be two folders CONSISTS and TRAINSET.

ROUTES folder is used to store your own route here. Currently, there are six default routes. You are going to install your new routes here.

TRAINSET folder is used to store your Electric/Diesel loco folder into that.

CONSISTS folder is used to store your new consists.

24. Now I will show you an example of each.

How to install Indian Electric/Diesel Locomotive

I will show you installation of WAP4 loco of Mr.Gaurav Virdi.

Login into www.trainsim.com.

Click on File Library tab.

Click on Search Files.

Click on Search only file section pick-list and choose Microsoft Train Simulator: Indian Electric Locomotives.

Click on Sort file list by pick-list and select Downloads.

Start search.

You will see the third link is wap1wap4.zip.Download it. Extract it.

You will see consists folder inside it. Double click it. Copy all files and paste in the D:\MSTS IR\TRAINS\CONSISTS

Now you will see TRAINS folder also. Double click it. You will see TRAINSET folder.double-click it. You will see a Wap1_4 folder. Just copy it and paste into D:\MSTS IR\TRAINS\TRAINSET folder.

All done but still, CABVIEW is missing for that Wap1_4 folder. So search aswirloc.zip file of Ronald Kappel extract it and copy CABVIEW folder into your Wap1_4 folder.

Yeah!!! Now run the game select any electrified route. Search your loco(WAP1 22052 Ghaziabad WAP 4 22275 Kanpur/WAP 4 22352 Vadodara) and drive it.

Please always read carefully the readme.txt file inside every downloaded zip file because there might be inter-dependency between files.

How to install Indian coaches

Same procedure as like Locomotive installation. (If I get time later I will show you it also and also modify this blog :))

How to create Indian Consist

To create new consist use MSTS Editor and tools. How to use it and create new consist link is here.

How to install Indian Route

I will show you one route installation lets say PUNE - SOLAPUR Route of Ranjit Pendse.

Again go to search on www.trainsim.com and type Solapur.

Download :

1. solapur.zip
2. solapur1.zip
3. solapur2.zip
4. solapur3.zip
5. solapur4.zip
6. solapur5.zip

Extract Solapur, zip at D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR

Extract solapur1.zip at the desktop.

Extract solapur2.zip at the desktop.

Now you have two folders at desktop SOLAPUR1 & SOLAPUR2.

Double click on SOLAPUR1 and copy files from it and paste into D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR\TILES.

Double click on SOLAPUR2 and copy files from it and paste into D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR\TILES.

Now, solapur3.zip,solapur4.zip & solapur5.zip are used for textures.

Extract solapur3.zip and paste into D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR\TEXTURES

Extract solapur4.zip and paste into D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR\TEXTURES

Extract solapur5.zip and paste into D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR\TEXTURES

All Done!!! Now Go to  D:\MSTS IR\ROUTES\SOLAPUR and search for Installme.bat file.Double click on it. Wait for the whole installation.

Your Route is ready to play.

IMPORTANT: If you don't have some of rolling stock then go to your route and clear these folders : ACTIVITIES, PATHS, SERVICES, TRAFFIC.

To create a new activity for this route visit this link.

25. Go and RUN the game. :):):)