Thanks much, George! Your routes are among the very best, so once again, I'm flattered.
Thinking of how well you've used DLS content (have always liked the way you did the trees for CC&LE - as in your sig) reminds me that I should probably make a couple "disclaimers" here and get it out of the way.
1. I did use some payware and some non-DLS content -
ALL of which is available from sirgibby's Trainzone.
2. True to my tendency and as you can probably tell from the pics, I didn't worry overmuch about "resource usage."
The map runs quite well on a CoreDuo 2.4 with two 7900GTX cards and 2 gigs of RAM. I'm not saying that to brag - I only mean to explain that I'm aware that my PC is, for now, pretty high end and that many people may not be able to run this.
3. Am thinking of making this route "donationware" -
depending.... I don't want to go the payware route and some creators' licenses forbid the use of their stuff in payware routes anyway. I'm not trying (or even expecting) to make big bucks. But if content creators are ok with it, and if it doesn't lead to a lot of "hue and cry," I might make donations an option (would have to host the route somewhere other than the DLS).
Call it "minstreling."
