Your Favorite Routes

Hi All,

I am very curious at what some of your favorite routes are. Out of the 13 days since I have had Trainz 2010 EE. Some of my favorite routes have included the following:

Desert Mountain Pass
High Desert
Desert Wood
EK3
Clovis Sub

In the last 13 days, Ive only downloaded maybe 8 or 9 routes all together. Now, What are your favorites? Maybe with your favorites. You can help me out with some other great routes.

Eaglefan

I'm going to assume that by "favorite" you mean the ones I drive the most when I just want to play with my Trainz. You already have two of them EK3 and Clovis Sub. I would add Dave Snow's Miyabi Coastline Railway (<kuid2:101046:100299:1>). There aren't many industries, but if you're into passenger operations it's worth a look. The last one I'll mention is another one of Dermmy's, McCall Yard (<kuid2:203465:30000:2>). I think it's an over-looked gem for switching/yard operations. It's not very large and the mainline is strictly portal to portal, but there are enough industries to keep you busy for hours. In another thread Dermmy said it was dated, maybe some of the assets are (I've replaced most of the billboard trees with Pofig's) but in my opinion the route isn't.

This is purely subjective. There are an unbelievable number of routes on the DLS and what I enjoy driving others may find boring. Hopefully others will respond and mention Phil Skene's routes, UMR and a multitude of others. My advice (though you didn't ask for it) is to "browse" the routes in CM and when you see something that looks good, download it and drive it. If you don't like it, you can delete it.

Eaglefan9727 said:

Hi All,

I am very curious at what some of your favorite routes are. Out of the 13 days since I have had Trainz 2010 EE. Some of my favorite routes have included the following:

Desert Mountain Pass
High Desert
Desert Wood
EK3
Clovis Sub

In the last 13 days, Ive only downloaded maybe 8 or 9 routes all together. Now, What are your favorites? Maybe with your favorites. You can help me out with some other great routes.

Eaglefan

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Where can i fin these routes? Thanks!

Gfisher-Down East Fishing Villiage
BigBoy4000lUP-Pennsylvania Lines
NS Reading Line

All of gfishers routes (at USLW)
Tyler Bishop's Suburban Colorado (at USLW)
TPR's Clinchfield
All of Dermmy's routes

I have to admit that, since I started my own route, I haven't been running many others. It's no insult to the route builders...just a matter of available time.

Cheers,
Fred

In no particular order...

East Kentucky 3 - Dermmy (Checkrail)

North American Grain Shortline - kingstonflyer (DLS)

Georgetown to Tarin Rocks (Australian fictional) - axe1970 (DLS)

Mojave Sub - Jointed Rail (TS12)

Dave Snow's Miyabi Coastline Railway, (<kuid2:101046:100299:1>)
Dave Snow's Ozark Valley Railroad, (<kuid:101046:1102>)
philskene's HarborMaster TS12, (<kuid2:69871:2095:1>)

These are the ones I love so far.

Let us not forget the Ultra Mega Route, in all it's variations...

Absolutely Ed. I forgot TPR's Sandpatch too. It's always been one of my favs.

Cheers,
Fred

My favourite route was the Glasgow to Falkirk route made by Vern, it had everything, a large city, a tunnel to the scottish towns, and some of the nicest countryside ever made, plus it was double track all the way with a couple of stations here and there, so lots of rail activity in both directions, that was a great route and definitly my favourite.

Joe Airtime

Gameboy900 said:

Where can i fin these routes? Thanks!

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Desert Mountain Pass -DLS
High Desert - USLW
Desert Wood - USLW
EK3 - Checkrail
Clovis Sub - Checkrail

airtime said:

My favourite route was the Glasgow to Falkirk route made by Vern, it had everything, a large city, a tunnel to the scottish towns, and some of the nicest countryside ever made, plus it was double track all the way with a couple of stations here and there, so lots of rail activity in both directions, that was a great route and definitly my favourite.

Joe Airtime

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Where can I find this route? I enjoy routes with double mainline all the way and etail in the routes as well.

I like the following routes:

East Kentucky 3 - Dermmy
Clovis Sub - Dermmy
philskene's routes - Period!!!!
All of gfishers routes

Regards

Axe

axe1970 said:

I like the following routes:
philskene's routes - Period!!!!

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Absolutely!

I love Phil's routes, and I'm so happy he has updated some of them, PO&N in particular, for later versions.

Matt.

I enjoy routes with double mainline all the way and etail in the routes as well.[/quote]

Falkirk to Glasgow on the DLS
Rog

Routes by Maxwerks are some of my favorites. All are prototypically accurate. These are switching routes, but then I like switching and getting the freight delivered rather than driving 50 boring miles of mainline track. To each his own.

AransasPassTerminalRwySP2,<kuid:425968:1007>
HobokenShoreRR,<kuid:425968:1420>
JayStConnecting,<kuid:425968:1247>
Modesto & Empire,<kuid:425968:1019>
25thStTerminal,<kuid:425968:1323>

I agree with Dap. Another one is Ironbound Industrial by gfisher.

The SnC, love it. Since I updated it with Pofig trees and added grass, bushes and more trees it is a real pleasure to drive. :wave:

I gotta chime in with my own kudos to Phil Skene's masterworks. My current fave is his behemoth Industrail (his pdf file with this layout's maps is 23 pages!). It is a super fun layout to detail, with urban closeup scenes, roads near the tracks and trees that will change with the calendar.

And it is so chock full of just about ANY industry you can think of (and several you can choose yourself) that it's a route that can keep one busy for months. You can run a way freight switching cars on just three or four boards worth and take hours, or take the throttle of a fast freight and still spend a good six hours getting from one end to the other!

I have converted it over from AU to US, running from Aurora, IL east to Chicago, then up Lake Michigan's shoreline through Kenosha, and up into Wisconsin through Racine and Milwaukee, possibly up to Green Bay.

It's only August in this year of 1974, but football fever is already setting in here, and the train excursion set up to take Chicagoans north to Lambeau for an October Monday night game is already sold out (and lucky travelers will get to see their Bears trim the Pack 10-9).

Eaglefan9727 said:

Where can I find this route? I enjoy routes with double mainline all the way and etail in the routes as well.

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Hello Eaglefan,

The Glasgow to Falkirk route is included with all Trainz versions from Trainz 2006 upwards, (except for Trainz 2012).

If you are using Trainz 2010, click on the Gold star at the top of the driver page, then scroll down until you see - Glasgow to Falkirk.

Hope this helps

Joe Airtime