M&Pa Route in Development

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Here ya go

Corrected to be more accurate, according to photos I recently received the shed I had in place didn't belong there.

 

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Mount Vernon Yard, Baltimore

 

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A & PA

Looking northwest across the valley

Looking southeast across the valley, Mt Vernon Yard new scenic-ed (needs more tho) and Druid Hill Park added.

 

[montanawestren]

your layout is looking good! keep up the good work!

 

[Euphod]

That's some complicated route building right there! Well done.

 

[slabay]

A & PA

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Looking northwest across the valley


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Looking southeast across the valley, Mt Vernon Yard new scenic-ed (needs more tho) and Druid Hill Park added.

Great work, Ted....my aunt used to live about a mile away from Druid Hill Park.

 

[AJ_Fox]

Looks good to me. Very nice work. Don't be too concerned about quick responses. You know what they say, have a party and they will come.

Cheers

AJ

 

[stagecoachdriverdave]

This looks awesome! I graduated from Towson last year, interesting to hear about the spikes in the Glen. I'm sure there are some relics still hiding in the grass along the rock cut near the Center for the Arts, although thats probably the only place now. It's pretty hard to picture how a railroad went through a lot of that area, so looking forward to seeing that section of the route!

 

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Thanks for the encouragement guys. I completed scenery for all the base board I have at the moment. That covers from the PRR Union tunnels in the south up to the M&Pa 29th St Tunnel and a small bit of Wyman Park.

Ran it to check it out and.....

"Trainz has encountered an unexpected error and must be closed.

Sorry, your boned."

GAH! Ah well, at least my work was saved.

Hoping I can find a rouge spline tomorrow, but I'm done for today...

 

[Kon1786]

pretty dam cool

 

[frogpipe]

Today was a good day for Virtual Railroading. My route has come along nicely, as you will see! Enjoy!

Northern Central Yard which once stood across Mount Royal Ave from B&O's Mount Royal Station (upper right)

Looking north from the Union Tunnel portal up past Penn Station

#6 Steams backwards toward the turntable to be turned about for the next outbound commuter run. A Seaboard SW7 stands in for M & Pa #80 beside the very inaccurate freight terminal. Meanwhile a B&O freight makes for the Baltimore Belt Line above.

#6 heads north toward Bel Air, as seen from #80's left seat.

Photo of Pennsy's Aerotrain taken from a north bound GG-1, Howard Street bridge stands in the background.

#6 Pulls south at the south end of Wyman Park, about to enter the 29th street tunnel - the only tunnel on the M & Pa

Baltimore Yard.

GG-1 and Aerotrain pass north of Penn Station.

#6 passing through the Baltimore Yard on it's way to the station, Potts Callahan in the background.
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[tsteger]

I had a good friend, who recently passed away, who was an avid and faithful modeler of the Ma & Pa. I have come to aprreciate the railroad and the scenes along its right of way, which went from Baltimore to York, with a branch to Dallastown. I am looking forward to your screenshots. Do you plan to have Baltimore rowhouses, the Bel Air station, Gross trestle, Delta?

 

[frogpipe]

So far the line hasn't passed close enough to row homes to make it worth while, that may well change as I work up though evergreen, homeland, and push north to Towson. But in the downtown area, where rowhomes would have been, I chose to use Pro Routes NEC Baltimore "blocks" which are ok at a distance, but certainly don't looks like the old brick rowhomes and marble steps I remember!

Meanwhile, Bel Air, the various Trestles, and Delta are in the future... When I get that far!

Oh, and if you have any prototype info like maybe plans, drawings, etc. anything will help.

I made a model of the Baltimore station, but I still need to model the Baltimore freight terminal...

 

[Isegrinns]

Looks pretty cool, sir.

 

[frogpipe]

Think I got it.

There was a junction that was showing the red/green arrow reversed. Now I've had that before, when a close examination showed that the track *actually* went just a wee bit to one side before crossing the mainline again and going far off to the other side. I consider that an illusion.

This however was a real problem, no crisscrossing tracks, just a bassackward arrow. Green to the right, train goes left, green to the left, train goes right....

I tried just breaking the junction apart and reassembling it, and deleting a single track segment, but the fix ultimately was to delete all three "legs" of the junction vertex and relaying those three tracks again.

One clue to the problem, deleting the left and right diverging tracks just happened to leave the junction lever behind and it did NOT go double red which is what you'd normally expect.

 

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Still have some crashing, but it's been in surveyor, so I hope driver will be ok

Meanwhile, this:

#81 sitting in the Baltimore yard (Roundhouse and Potomac Coal trestles in the background)

 

[Euphod]

Every screen is more impressive Ted. Well Done.

 

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Thanks!

For those interested, #81 is being processed into the DLS now.

 

[qassaquyangli]

My words are what Ed says this whole thread. Lovely! Jolly good route!

 

[Milwaukeeroad261]

Hey Ma, where's Pa? :hehe:
good work so far