New York Cross Harbor Railroad Street Trackage

[Frank_Dean]

I found a website with photos of the old railroad tracks that still remain in the streets of New York. The images of turnouts with just a point blade are very interesting.
http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/nychtracks.html

 

[maxwerks]

That website is an absolute gold mine for anyone interested in terminal railroads in the NYC area. It was my primary source of information while building my Jay Street Connecting, 25th Street Terminal, 8th Avenue Industrial, and Acme Terminal routes.

 

[Forester1]

@maxwerks, I just downloaded some of those into TRS22 to try. JaySt says it is missing <kuid:425968:-1> in CM, which doesn't sound right? But when I copy to paste it into this post in comes out as <kuid:425968:4294967295>
Wierd?

 

[maxwerks]

@maxwerks, I just downloaded some of those into TRS22 to try. JaySt says it is missing <kuid:425968:-1> in CM, which doesn't sound right? But when I copy to paste it into this post in comes out as <kuid:425968:4294967295>
Wierd?

Sorry @Forester1; that's my KUID prefix, but I haven't the faintest idea what that asset might be.

I just downloaded and opened the route in Surveyor (for the first time in years), and didn't see anything missing other than a couple of scenery items that don't matter much. You should be able to run "Delete Missing Assets" on the route and operate it with no issues.

I went a little overboard, it seems, with the sound effects -- or maybe they're just more noticeable in TRS22 than in whatever version I built the route in; you might want to delete a few of those. You also might want to tweak the color of the water; TRS22 makes the East River look like the Caribbean.

I'm in the middle of building two big routes at present, but if I get some time, I might go back and update the good ol' Jay Street Connecting.

In keeping with the theme of this thread, here are a couple of pictures I took of JSCRR trackage still visible on the streets of DUMBO in 2018:

 

[Forester1]

OK. Thanks!
EDIT: I thought I would fire it up in TRS22PE and see if I could find an orange wireframe somewhere, but did not find one. But wow! It looks great! Other than replacing the old trees, everything else is still good, I could actually wander those streets awhile just to absorb the details. Great little route to set up some switching exercises. Well done sir!