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[Jayco-man]

CL152, do you have hair now? lol, man that a lot of lard, nice work. Will be looking for more.

 

[PWeiser]

One of my first Trainz layouts was based on the NYW&B (the Westchester electric commuter railroad). Though it was lost in a disk crash, some of the stations and equipment remained (and it was a lot like the New Haven's anyway). Recently I built a new layout, also based on the Westchester and using those assets but adding a few new ones and improved (?) technology - though still in TS2009 build 40040.

Technology: (1) using block scenery copy, results of which can be a little sloppy but much more complete than covering the boards with tree splines and sparse vegetation, and (2) simplified catenary consisting of track assets with a built-in contact wire and pseudo-catenary "supported" by support bridges which are trackside assets rather than splines.

New assets: Quaker Ridge, Mamaroneck, and 180th Street. Old stations: White Plains, Heathcote, Pelham 5th Avenue, Hunts Point and Wykagyl. (Stations from parts: Baychester, Port Chester and Harlem River.)

Screen shots, south to north...

Hunts Point looking south

180th Street from trackside

Columbus Avenue where the 4-track southern trunk line splits into the 2-track White Plains and Port Chester branches - with New Haven-style power injection bridge

Wykagyl station, typical of underground stations on the older White Plains line

Quaker Ridge station, which later became a private residence

Typical scenery on the newer and less-developed Port Chester line.

The simplified catenary is not particularly realistic, especially on curves... but it was a whole lot easier to install! The layout will handle 5 AI trains at once (three Harlem-White Plains, two Harlem-Port Chester) with a round trip of 40 minutes, but starts to falter due to lack of passengers beyond that. As did the prototype...

 

[hiawathamr]

Nice work everyone!

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WIP UK themed route:

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[applegathc]

Mile 217.8 of the BNSF Cuba Subdivision, just outside Marshfield, Missouri:

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[hiawathamr]

Cheers

 

[rwwaterz]

Is that BNSF Cuba Sub a dem route.

 

[hiawathamr]

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[hiawathamr]

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[RetroRails12]

East Kentucky Coal Norfolk Southern on CSX Interchange Tracks headed to Kentucky Power Company In Hazard Kentucky

 

[hiawathamr]

Somewhere...

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[hiawathamr]

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[hiawathamr]

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[MiketheEngineer]

 

[Forester1]

Nice looking aerial shot. Is it a route you are building?

 

[hiawathamr]

Cheers

 

[ajrf]

I remember this from Reddit. Am I right?

 

[hiawathamr]

Cheers

 

[hiawathamr]

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[hiawathamr]

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[Forester1]

Beautiful looking route Hiawathamr.