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I want to know, what locomotive did you use, and how'd you do that? Because it's hilarious, and I want to try it myself.
OK, I've been a Trainzer off and on since about Trainz 2004/2006, but have stayed away from participating in these discussions because I never felt the need. I mean everything I had questions about pretty much got answered just by following the many conversations over the years. However, this route hits too close to home. The first town south of Bangor, as mentioned by Therock, is my hometown of Hampden, ME. My grandad had a large dairy farm, the northern edge of which was along the MEC mainline between Bangor and Northern Maine Junction in Hermon, ME. My grandad's farm was literally about 100-150 yards from my childhood home, but still one of the special treats I had as a kid was spending a couple of weeks with Grandpa & 'Nanna' in the summer, or when Mom was in the hospital delivering one of my younger siblings (I'm the oldest of six), even though their home was within eyesight of my home. I would stay in my dad's childhood room which viewed that MEC mainline. I spent many hours just watching the trains going back and forth between the two yards - I guess that's where I got my interest in trains.
My other Grandma lived in Bangor, and to get to her place the usual route we took passed by the old steel bridge between Bangor & Brewer. It looked very much like the bridge in Therock's 2nd screenshot, except that maybe the original was a bit more angled north to south.
It's too bad that so much of this stuff from my childhood is gone, but just humor me for a moment and let me try to describe how this route was in the 60s & 70s. This is a route I have imagined building in Trainz, but have never been able to find good documentation for so far. Starting at NMJ, the B&A came in from the north, crossed the MEC, which roughly ran east to west, and continued south to Belfast to service local industry and a large tank farm in Searsport to provide fuel/chems for the paper mills in northern Maine. The MEC came from the southwest/west from southern ME and continued east. The MEC mainline between NMJ in Hermon to Bangor was a very long, gentle curve (prob about 10 miles or so), with a spur in between to Dow AF base which had a huge fuel tank farm (there was a B-52 wing based there back then). Once it hit Bangor there were a number of warehouse sidings, including a fuel receiving depot from incoming ships/barges via the Penobscot and a rather large roundhouse, before reaching the Bangor yard, now gone for the most part.
The mainline continued up the river to paper mills in Old Town and Lincoln, along with major maintenance facilities in Derby/Milo. Just north of the yard were sidings for warehouses and the old passenger station (all pretty much gone after urban renewal and my remembrance), and the old steel bridge mentioned earlier. What was interesting about that bridge was that for trains heading east to Ellsworth, or south to places along the other side of the Penobscot like Brewer & Bucksport; the trains would have to back up north out of the Bangor yard along the river to beyond the old steel bridge to cross the bridge to head east in the right direction. (FYI, there was a paper mill in Brewer. It was an old facility - it was of almost all red brick construction. In later years they did 'specialist' paper manufacture, whatever that meant.) This probably would be as interesting a scenario as the fictional BANG route.
Sorry, I realize this route is fictional, and this is not meant in any way as any criticism for the BANG route and its developers, it looks really cool. I'll definitely be purchasing a copy if and when it shows up as an item to buy (from JR?). Like I said, this one just hits very close to home and it's very cool to see.