The once famous Arrington Subdivision is currently owned by the Eastmont Northern Railroad although it was originally built by the St. James & Midwestern or simply known as the SJMW. The line operates from Lofton to St. Marshall, Irving; which is a total of 426 miles in length.
The line went under construction in the early and mid 1880s by the St. James & Midwestern Railroad and was one of the first lines ever built by the railroad and was complete in 1898. The route was originally built to handle only freight trains but in 1890 the railroad decided to add a passenger train to the route called the St. James Cannonball which ran from St. James, Elkhorn to Revis Heights, Iverson. As a result of adding the passenger train, multiple sections of the line were double tracked in order to accommodate the extra traffic caused by the implemented service. By the turn of the 20Th century the line would become increasingly important for the SJMW and traffic would increase over 80 percent between 1910 and 1920. The arrival of the Great Depression had brought suffering to the route as traffic dropped by 40 percent and passenger ridership on the route suffered and trains were dropped in order to ease the pain of financial loss and burdens felt by the railroad at the time.
During the second world war, the route had a sudden burst of incoming freight and passenger train traffic and easily had its best years and was considered on the busiest mainlines in the Midwest from the early 1940s on to the late 1960s. But by the 1970s traffic had declined with the demise of passenger service and the merger with the Pondexter, St. James & Northern only furthered the decline on the route. With the SJMW entering a financial slump the route had underwent severe and nearly fatal neglect. Poor servicing infrequent and inadequate maintenance drove the amount of trains from 32 a day to just 2-6 trains a day in the mid & late 1980s.
The route had gone through so much turmoil that the went two months without a single freight train coming through! This happened between February and April 1990 as no maintenance or repairs were made to a badly beaten rail line that was once considered the heart and soul of the SJMW. The SJMW had considered abandoning the route but after hearing rumors that the ICC might get involved and some mixed feelings and divided opinions and reasoning they ultimately decided to keep the line open but the financial debt they were buried was so steep they couldn't do a single thing to improve the conditions. When the railroad went bankrupt in April 1994 their assets were sold to three railroads, the most notable the JP or Javarrington Pacific. After the JP acquired the line upgrades begun to take place but the progress was slow and improvements didn't become noticeable until the late 1990s and early 2000s. Then in April of 2002 the JP was sold to the Eastmont Northern Railroad via merger and the Eastmont Northern had finished off the job of major upgrades and repairs and in 2006 the restoration of the route was complete and today 24 trains run over the route, which is roughly a train an hour.
Note: During the JP era of ownership trains still continued to travel down the route but only on a 2-6 train weekly basis instead of a daily basis as traffic was detoured elsewhere while the line was undergoing its restoration process.
You can download the route from the Trainz Download Station here at this link:
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=207730
http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_downloadasset.php?DownloadID=207730
If that doesn't work then type in Arrington Subdivision or my username Kris94.
The line went under construction in the early and mid 1880s by the St. James & Midwestern Railroad and was one of the first lines ever built by the railroad and was complete in 1898. The route was originally built to handle only freight trains but in 1890 the railroad decided to add a passenger train to the route called the St. James Cannonball which ran from St. James, Elkhorn to Revis Heights, Iverson. As a result of adding the passenger train, multiple sections of the line were double tracked in order to accommodate the extra traffic caused by the implemented service. By the turn of the 20Th century the line would become increasingly important for the SJMW and traffic would increase over 80 percent between 1910 and 1920. The arrival of the Great Depression had brought suffering to the route as traffic dropped by 40 percent and passenger ridership on the route suffered and trains were dropped in order to ease the pain of financial loss and burdens felt by the railroad at the time.
During the second world war, the route had a sudden burst of incoming freight and passenger train traffic and easily had its best years and was considered on the busiest mainlines in the Midwest from the early 1940s on to the late 1960s. But by the 1970s traffic had declined with the demise of passenger service and the merger with the Pondexter, St. James & Northern only furthered the decline on the route. With the SJMW entering a financial slump the route had underwent severe and nearly fatal neglect. Poor servicing infrequent and inadequate maintenance drove the amount of trains from 32 a day to just 2-6 trains a day in the mid & late 1980s.
The route had gone through so much turmoil that the went two months without a single freight train coming through! This happened between February and April 1990 as no maintenance or repairs were made to a badly beaten rail line that was once considered the heart and soul of the SJMW. The SJMW had considered abandoning the route but after hearing rumors that the ICC might get involved and some mixed feelings and divided opinions and reasoning they ultimately decided to keep the line open but the financial debt they were buried was so steep they couldn't do a single thing to improve the conditions. When the railroad went bankrupt in April 1994 their assets were sold to three railroads, the most notable the JP or Javarrington Pacific. After the JP acquired the line upgrades begun to take place but the progress was slow and improvements didn't become noticeable until the late 1990s and early 2000s. Then in April of 2002 the JP was sold to the Eastmont Northern Railroad via merger and the Eastmont Northern had finished off the job of major upgrades and repairs and in 2006 the restoration of the route was complete and today 24 trains run over the route, which is roughly a train an hour.
Note: During the JP era of ownership trains still continued to travel down the route but only on a 2-6 train weekly basis instead of a daily basis as traffic was detoured elsewhere while the line was undergoing its restoration process.
You can download the route from the Trainz Download Station here at this link:
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=207730
http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_downloadasset.php?DownloadID=207730
If that doesn't work then type in Arrington Subdivision or my username Kris94.