July 2010, Holland Routes Website Updated!   

Haarlem - Maastricht Routes:  Maastricht_v2,  Maastricht_v4, for BVE2.6
Amsterdam - Germany route via Arnhem:  Rheingold_v2
Den Helder - Amsterdam Route:  Den_Helder_v3.3
Amsterdam - Muiderpoort Route:  Zwolle_v2

How to unzip: Unzip Holland.zip anywhere and move to Program Files\BVE\Railway\Object\Holland.

Unzip Trains, Buildings, in their own folders in Objects\Holland\Holland\Objects\. 
Unzip 209-500hk, Markers and Nanbu, anywhere and move to Objects\Holland. I had to split up the Object folder owing to my server not accepting large files :-(
You will end up with this: C:\Program Files\BVE\Railway\Objects\Holland\Trains; Holland\Buildings;
Holland\209-50hk; Holland\Markers; and Holland\Nanbu. The Train folder contains the static locs and coaches.

These Maastricht routes are the second and more complete versions of a previous attempt. They end at Maastricht-Randwyck, and may even go on somewhat into Belgium, if I can find the time. Version 2 connects Eindhoven and Roermond via station Weert; version 3 goes to Venlo and then to Roermond, etc.  (I had never heard of Blerick.) Version 4 is a corrected version of v3, continued (with little scenery) to Visè, Belgium. 
These routes will never be finished as more trees and buildings will be added continually.  Nevertheless, they will have to do for now to fill the empty domain of Holland routes. The track is as I found it on maps and satellite views, not aways the clearest.  
Visit Sven Seeger's website, www.sporenplan.nl, for station and yard details. Many thanks to Sven for his painstaking research.  His website now details many European railroads.

Some nice Dutch coaches were discovered at: http://www.arthurstreinenpagina.nl/ 
With Arthur's permission I have used several of his drawings to reskin the Belgian coach of Davie Gijbels, of Belgian train sim. I have not been able to reach Davie for some time, but
I have his permission for the original Dutch coaches and locs.
Arthur Kamminga has another website devoted to Dutch railroad photographs, here:
http://www.arthurkamminga.nl/rail/index1tp99.html
Where known, all originators and authors have been mentioned in the object file. 
Rudolf Halenbeek is responsible for some objects, especially the hopper, used extensively in Limburg (a coal-mining region).
I found some beautiful trees by Gerrish Gray for Flight Simulator 2000/02. I have modified some of his bitmaps to suit BVE. Gerrish is momentarily unreachable, so I could not thank him for these. His read-me doc gives the usual permission for non-profit use. A collection of these trees can be seen on the Maastricht routes in Beatrix Park at 725-1000 meter, and some at Venlo (for now).

Although only partly finished to Duisburg, I have included a new Rheingold route. This is version2. It runs via Amsterdam, Utrecht, Arnhem, Emmerich, Oberhausen, etc. There is little scenery past Utrecht.  More trees, etc are coming :-)  It shows the original Rheingold coaches. 

The Den Helder route was made at the instigation of Rudolf Halenbeek. Again, this has few details, but it includes the new Schiphol tracks.  The Maastricht routes also inlude the new Schiphol junction, plus the new Metro tracks at Duivendrecht, plus four track to Utrecht.

The Zwolle_v2 route is the same as the Rheingold route up to Muiderpoort, where it now turns North towards Amersfoort, Zwolle, etc.  Perhaps it will be used for that later, but in the mean time, anyone should feel free to continue. There are two massive yards just around the corner.

The Long Switches route may prove useful for those new to BVE. 

Many objects have been borrowed from the Route Builder website. Many thanks.
Rüdiger Hülsmann is still responsible for the track, switches and curves, What would we do without his Switch15 program? 

At the time of this writing the markers folder is still incomplete, but will be finished shortly.
If desired, all Holland object folders can be combined into one folder; sometimes the route file will have to be reworded.  The present folder is getting very large.

The buildings in the Buildings folder are fashioned to be placed on the left side of the main (0) track.  Right side placement needs a reversal of the bitmaps. Like so:
    Left side: 1000 @freeobject (0,200,-20,-4) means the center-front of building 1a (freeobj 200) is placed 20 meter to the left of track 0, and 4 meter lower, distance 1000 meter.
    Right side: 1000 @freeobject (0,200,20,-4,180) means the center-front of the same building is placed 20 meter to the right of track 0 and 4 meter lower; and also turned around 180 degrees. The 4 meter is the hight of the track.
These objects are not copy protected in any way. 

For some time there have been rumours that the Venlo-Roermond track would be doubled. 
I have, conseqently, taken the liberty of doing so in advance. It can always be removed. 

Martin Fonda, Ottawa.   I can be reached at: fb214@ncf.ca. 
My Holland Routes website is at: http://web.ncf.ca/fb214/