*Gasp* CSX Bone Valley?!?! 1280x800 ~100kb

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*Gasp* CSX Bone Valley?!?! 1600*900

Thanks a lot to Backyard for the initial DEM he made for Evan L. and myself.

This route currently will have much of the BV operation, albeit between Edison and points east. Achan, Mulberry, Bartow, Ft Meade, and more are in this route, and in the future I suppose, according to one thread on TrainzForums, there MAY be the whole skadoodle around Winston and Lakeland Jct, as well as ADale and Park Spur ( :D )...

The only progressed area is the starting point: Mulberry Crossing of the Valrico and Bone Valley subs.

What I got:

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A local coming back engine light

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...looks like you got the idea...

:cool: Yes, I approve...

The ground profile looks right, just allow the splines to lay on the terrain until you need to adjust them...

When I pass the Bonny gyp-dyke on Hwy 60 to Bartow, I want to see a gyp-dyke & so forth!

Don't forget the Dragline Big Muskie can be your darling "Clementine.."

In fact, there was 28 of them working 24/7/365 back in the day!

I in fact may wound-up downloading your route...let me go make some ad-dons for you...
 
Thanks, Allen! Those gypsum dikes really stand out along the SR 60 corridor in the DEM, the one by Mosaic will be real interesting to see. I'll be looking forward to the addons. :cool:

backyard said:
:cool: Yes, I approve...

The ground profile looks right, just allow the splines to lay on the terrain until you need to adjust them...

When I pass the Bonny gyp-dyke on Hwy 60 to Bartow, I want to see a gyp-dyke & so forth!

Don't forget the Dragline Big Muskie can be your darling "Clementine.."

In fact, there was 28 of them working 24/7/365 back in the day!

I in fact may wound-up downloading your route...let me go make some ad-dons for you...
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Mullberry crossing is an odd little junction, isn't it. That was one of my little railfanning spots. The phosphate museum is right there next to the tracks on the northeast corner of the junction. There are several boxcars, a caboose (SCL) and a 44tonner with side rods that I think was in Italy at one time then switched some phosphate plant.

Glad to see this route in the works, I darn sure wasn't going to tackle it myself, not prototypically any ways... I don't think.
 
Up-close & personal...

:cool:
1. Prairie Mine area of Mulberry...


2. Formerly IMC New Wales(locally pronounced "wells"), IMC & Cargill formed a new company called Mosaic, the largest producer of phosphorus in the world...


3. Truckloads of Sulfur enter the "South-Gate" & dump in the sulfur pit. The DAP trucks follow the route to the truck load-out & return to the south gate. The Rock/Sulfur Double-tank truck at the scales is crooked in the lane because he rounded the corner & stopped to get his bills...

I hauled AFI so I drove the mile-long route to the AFI plant, via the AFI Gate...

You also see the rail sulfur steam tracks, where they hook steam-lines, vent the tank safely & return in three days when it becomes fully molten(about 265°)...

Steam produced by a boiler over the sulfuric attack tank, where sulfur is mixed with phosphate to produce phosphoric acid, also runs an electric power generation plant that not only supplies power to the entire operations, but is also sold to the electric grid.

It's like a giant chemistry set, to produce expensive dirt...


4. I weighed in & out at the AFI Guard Gate. The calcimated limerock was delivered in this area. This is the animal feed ingredient plant, "warehouse," rail & truck load-outs are here. You start here for a load to Pt. Sutton, only delivered by truck & return with a load of molten sulfur in crude bulk form, mined by the Frasch Process.

AFI trucks never hauled diamonium phosphate(DAP) fertilizer ingredient in their trailers to prevent contamination of the AFI product.

Grain haulers bring corn & other products to Florida & load-out AFI to feed mills throughout the southeast.

The green square & what looks like a dirt load-out was actually a $400m extraction plant, I cannot imagine it being gone, possibly, but I also could believe this is a masked over picture(it happens)...& yes, I know where the gold is buried...


5. Other local attractions...


6. Total Route?
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The one photo I did quote, Allen, was my view of a perfect route... Atop from the Bone Valley, a replication of the Tampa-Winston-BV monitor plus some more trackage as you pointed out is the perfect segment. Bone Valley is not complete without Rockport, Yeoman, and parts of the Neve Spur! I should have new pics ready for this thread soon. :cool:

Thanks for sharing your pictures!

backyard said:
:cool:

2. Formerly IMC New Wales(locally pronounced "wells"), IMC & Cargill formed a new company called Mosaic, the largest producer of phosphorus in the world...
http://img641.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mosaicsnewwalesincedit4.jpg​

3. Truckloads of Sulfur enter the "South-Gate" & dump in the sulfur pit. The DAP trucks follow the route to the truck load-out & return to the south gate. The Rock/Sulfur Double-tank truck at the scales is crooked in the lane because he rounded the corner & stopped to get his bills...​

I hauled AFI so I drove the mile-long route to the AFI plant, via the AFI Gate...​

You also see the rail sulfur steam tracks, where they hook steam-lines, vent the tank safely & return in three days when it becomes fully molten(about 265°)...​

Steam produced by a boiler over the sulfuric attack tank, where sulfur is mixed with phosphate to produce phosphoric acid, also runs an electric power generation plant that not only supplies power to the entire operations, but is also sold to the electric grid.​

It's like a giant chemistry set, to produce expensive dirt...
http://img682.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sufuricdapedit.jpg​

4. I weighed in & out at the AFI Guard Gate. The calcimated limerock was delivered in this area. This is the animal feed ingredient plant, "warehouse," rail & truck load-outs are here. You start here for a load to Pt. Sutton, only delivered by truck & return with a load of molten sulfur in crude bulk form, mined by the Frasch Process.​

AFI trucks never hauled diamonium phosphate(DAP) fertilizer ingredient in their trailers to prevent contamination of the AFI product.​

Grain haulers bring corn & other products to Florida & load-out AFI to feed mills throughout the southeast.​

The green square & what looks like a dirt load-out was actually a $400m extraction plant, I cannot imagine it being gone, possibly, but I also could believe this is a masked over picture(it happens)...& yes, I know where the gold is buried...
http://img714.imageshack.us/my.php?image=afilocomotiveshopedit.jpg​


6. Total Route?

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...me too...

:cool: Yes, I wish I was in a truck, stopped at a crossing, in Mulberry....

I'd have thirty-years in, come November...:eek:
 
CSX K962 - Miami, FL - Gainesville, FL.
I set up by the Polk Parkway on the A-line near E Carters. I must say, Bill's trucks are excellent on those Yelvington hoppers. :cool:
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Then, I literally push it on 92 just to beat this train to Lakeland Junction. I parked near where Florida Tile was and rushed for my shot.
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SubJenkinsRockTrain.jpg

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Finally, I was able to somehow beat it to the Kathleen overpass as a switch problem on the siding made him slow down. This is almost impossible to accomplish; beating a train from the tip of Lakeland Connection over to the I-4 overpass, about 2 miles.
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Q187 with intermodal for Tampa passes Auburndale and Lakeland.

You can see the video of the op session by clicking either image! :cool:

US 92 east of Lakeland

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Pics from the redone version of this route (since Allen/Backyard sent the DEM for Plant City west) can be seen on my blog. Here's a screenshot that you can click on to visit it. Thing is, I updated the route so much that I can't locate all the pictures 1x1 on Hostthenpost and use the time to post them here. Progress however continues on this thread from here on out.

 
Vitis Junction / Vitis Passing Siding

I will post my new video soon to this thread. The video has an area you cannot see in the screenshots but I pan my train there.

So many people I can bet want to see Vitis Junction represented in Trainz. Well guys, here it is. While I got sick from a cold, presumably from filming an A380 in the rain, I blew, if you will, two whole days in Trainzing Vitis Junction. This area was planned anyway after doing Winston Pass (pics coming soon) but I was amazed at how much progress I made. Two route-miles were scenicked in one day.

Private Xing at Ellerslie

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Between Messick and US 98

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South of Melrose Ave. Pretend that a mobile lift was used to take this shot. Otherwise it would be a slideshow of low FPS. :p

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It's a grass texture, I think along the lines of "grass09" or something like that.
My current version is heavy on Murva textures and obsoleted this very quickly.
Speaking of which I have a video of O708 switching the Tampa terminal sub
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