For 150 years, from 1813 to 1963, steamboats operated on the Chesapeake Bay moving people and freight between the major metropolitan centers (Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk) and the many small communities along the rivers and creeks of the tidewater.  Until the early and mid-1930s, there were no paved roads in most of the rural areas and the steamboat was the lifeline to the outside world.  At the peak of the steamboat era (early 1900s), it is estimated that as many as 600 steamboats were working the bay.  At least as 50 of these operated on regular schedules out of Baltimore.  The last of the boats were the largest - an overnight Baltimore to Norfolk packet - operated by the Baltimore Steam Packet Company - "The Old Bay Line".  The more common, and smaller, services and boats were provided by companies such as the Weems Line who operated regular service to the landings on the Western Shore and served the Patuxent, Potomac, and Rappahannock rivers.  It is this type of boat which is the pattern for this add-on.

Installation:
This is installed as an Aircraft, not as standard scenery.

Copy or move the folder 'Weems_SB' to your FS9\Aircraft Directory.

Copy the files in the included Effects folder to the FS9\Effects Directory (allow overwrites).

Copy the file in the Traffic folder to the FS9\Scenery\world\scenery Directory.

Copy the AFCAD file (AF2_KLSP.bgl) in the Scenery folder to FS9\Addon Scenery\Scenery Directory

Restart FS9 and the "Calvert" will appear in Baltimore Harbor.

The departure time is 1301 GMT.  Approximately 15 minutes later it passes the mouth of Colgate Creek at KBMA on its way to its Western Shore Chesapeake Bay landings and continuing to the Patuxent River landings as far as Lower Marlboro.  At Lower Marlboro it begins its return trip to Baltimore, stopping at several more landings on its way downriver, and arriving back at Baltimore around 0300 GMT the next day.

The "Calvert" does not actually stop at the wharves as it did in the real world, but approaches, turns, and leaves for the next landing without stopping.  The locations of these landings are as close to historically accurate as the topography in FS9 allows.

The landings, in the order in which they occur, are:

Western Shore-Chesapeake Bay		Patuxent River-Return
Fairhaven				Magruder's Ferry
Plum Point				Milltown Landing
Dares Beach				Truemans Point
Governors Run				Benedict
					Trent Hall
Patuxent River-Outbound			Forrests
Solomons				Jones Wharf
Sollers Wharf				Sotterly Plantation
Parkers Wharf				Spencers Wharf
Williams Wharf				Millstone Landing
Dukes(Sheridans Wharf)			Pearsons
Holland Point
Leitches Wharf				Baltimore
Deep Landing
Lower Marlboro

APPRECIATION:
We would like to thank:
- Charles Wood for establishing this fine VA,
- DC-3 Airways management for affording us the opportunity to participate 	in this project.
- Nova for the fine textures made available,
- Microsoft for the simulators and programs made available.
- JASC Software for Paintshop Pro
- Discreet for the powerful GMax program
- And a special thanks to Hartwig Rohrbeck DC3-1061 (once again) for all of his help in getting the aircraft.cfg and effects working correctly.

Ownership:
The objects that were created for this scenery were produced with Gmax, Paint Shop Pro 8, and the freeware tools mentioned above.  The objects and scenery remain proprietary.  Copyright of embedded objects and textures remain with their respective developers and owners.

Conditions of use:
This scenery is provided as Freeware.  It may be freely used, copied and distributed with the following restrictions:
- This document must be included in any distribution,
- You may not place these files anywhere that requires a fee for downloading.
- These files are not to be included in any commercial package or any CD collection without the authors’ consent.

Disclaimer:
I am not responsible for any problems or damage resulting from the installation of these files.  If you have a problem installing these files, please feel free to e-mail me at:  mm.white@comcast.net

If you have any questions, suggestions or problems with installing these files please feel free to contact me, at mm.white@comcast.net


