I have taken one route available for use in Trainz 2010 and earlier and made new routes out of them. I used the Wadalbavle Line (Built-in Trainz 2010 and earlier) to make the Atlantic Coast Railway and Atlantic Coast Railway - Steam Era. The names explain the difference between the two routes: the Atlantic Coast Railway is present day, while the Atlantic Coast Railway - Steam Era is a modified version of Atlantic Coast Railway to 'back-date' it to the steam era. In both cases, they are both a shortline. Both routes share the same town names: Anguilla, Georgetown, Turtle River Beach, Hayner, Brookman and Fancy Bluff. They are all real towns and all of them (except for I think Turtle River Beach) are served by a shortline connecting to CSX south of Savannah at Anguilla. I was not certain what CSX predecessor (either Atlantic Coast Line or Seaboard Coast Line) connected to the shortline at Anguilla. I do not know what the name of the actual railroad that serve those towns, but I chose to go with the name Atlantic Coast Railway to give people an idea where the route is located.
Meanwhile, the Higland Valley Steam Era (available on the DLS, Highland Valley and Highland Valley Industries are built-in Trainz 2010 and earlier) has been changed to create the Appalachian Southern - 1950's and the Appalachian Southern. It has the names of towns in the area I live in: Dalton is the town where the branchline splits off the mainline, with Ringgold, Rocky Face and Summit on the branchline. There is actually no town in the area named Summit. I named the last town on the brachline Summit because its the highest town on the branchline. The town of Choutta is also located on the mainline. Places where there are crossovers (on the mainline) or connections to the branchline (Dalton) and entrances into the yard (Dalton) have names of places along Norfolk Southern's mainline in the area I live.
Both Appalachian Southern routes feature parts either available on third-party websites or things built-into Trainz 12 only. I'm trying to get the Atlantic Coast Railway routes to have all dependences available on the DLS. However, that is not possible: I originaly used Jointed Rail Dark Track and Dark Track Dirty for the branchline which also included its own roadbed textures, and I once looked at the dependences for the Atlantic Coast Railway routes show that the roadbed texture from one of the two types of track from Jointed Rail's website is still one of its dependences, and when I replaced the Jointed Rail track with Auran 2009 Track Oak, I also replaced the texture of the roadbed, which was similar to the texture of the Jointed Rail track texture.
For a story about the history of these routes, check out my blog.
Meanwhile, the Higland Valley Steam Era (available on the DLS, Highland Valley and Highland Valley Industries are built-in Trainz 2010 and earlier) has been changed to create the Appalachian Southern - 1950's and the Appalachian Southern. It has the names of towns in the area I live in: Dalton is the town where the branchline splits off the mainline, with Ringgold, Rocky Face and Summit on the branchline. There is actually no town in the area named Summit. I named the last town on the brachline Summit because its the highest town on the branchline. The town of Choutta is also located on the mainline. Places where there are crossovers (on the mainline) or connections to the branchline (Dalton) and entrances into the yard (Dalton) have names of places along Norfolk Southern's mainline in the area I live.
Both Appalachian Southern routes feature parts either available on third-party websites or things built-into Trainz 12 only. I'm trying to get the Atlantic Coast Railway routes to have all dependences available on the DLS. However, that is not possible: I originaly used Jointed Rail Dark Track and Dark Track Dirty for the branchline which also included its own roadbed textures, and I once looked at the dependences for the Atlantic Coast Railway routes show that the roadbed texture from one of the two types of track from Jointed Rail's website is still one of its dependences, and when I replaced the Jointed Rail track with Auran 2009 Track Oak, I also replaced the texture of the roadbed, which was similar to the texture of the Jointed Rail track texture.
For a story about the history of these routes, check out my blog.