Dry Brook & Esopus Valley expansion

[rwk]

I got an idea to extend the route past the partially washed out bridge, apparently there was never going to be a part 2 to this route so I'm going to make one for myself. I will initially have it in an abandoned/unused state, then eventually I will rebuild the bridge and restore the abandoned track. I found a nice abandoned yard on a site, but the elevation is at zero like the eastern end of the DBEV, and the western end is at a higher elevation because the track climbs through the mountains. If I would use that on my route I would have to do a gentle slope downgrade. Or, I could just forget the yard and keep the western part of the route at the same elevation or copy and paste the yard onto the higher elevation boards that I create. This is the abandoned yard route which is freeware and the license is that you can do with it as you wish. https://mal39trainz.weebly.com/abandonedunfinished-routes.html#/ Of course, this expansion of the DBEV will be for my own use. The abandoned yard would fit right in since it's based on NYC, Penn Central, and Conrail probably in NY State. Then, I will add more miles of track beyond the yard initially as abandoned. The yard will probably be located several miles past where the DBEV route ends. I want to have a few more towns and stations with passing sidings for future tourist service expansion on my addition to the route. I don't like when rails are torn up for trails, so in my universe there won't be any trails replacing rails. NY State though seems to have these trail groups which can pressure for the removal of rails for trails like on the upper end of the Adirondack to Lake Placid or parts of the Ulster & Delaware that were unused by any of the tourist railroads. Once the rails are gone they aren't coming back. There is something by Wearsprada or something on that abandoned yard route which can't be found by kuid search and I don't have a title of the asset. In that case, the only way to find it is to ask around, or message JR. It's probably not that important.