Union Pacific's Cascade Subdivision

[Alex99al]

Hi there fellow Trainz users. I am thinking about creating a replica of the Union Pacific's ex-Southern Pacific Cascade Subdivison between Portland, Oregon and Klamath Falls, Oregon near the California border. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what I should set he gradient to and what type of track and signals would be best for the route. If you have a map from Google Maps or any other place, I would appreciate it. If you want to talk to me about it or why I want to do it, please go to Yahoo Messenger and type in my email: krswlkr56@yahoo.com Thanks.

[Vern]

The only "free" gradient profiles I have seen for US routes is on a site for the D&RGW.

Otherwise this site:

http://trainsite.8m.com/

sells a fair selection of gradient profiles and track charts. I've used them once and the service was excellent, albeit not cheap.

For mapping the route you really should investigate Transdem. It's payware but will match up your DEM and in the case of USA you can configure for connection to the Terraserver web mapping service and accurately plot maps over the DEM, finally extracting for import via CMP. Will give you geographically accurate DEM'ed baseboards overlaid with map imagery ready to start laying your track etc.