Out of Detroit: Into Los Angeles!

[chrisracer8903]

Seince I am finished with the CSX Saginaw Sub that covers almost all of Western Detroit. I now move to one of my older routes: The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. It's coming back and being remodeled to my newer standards: new track, grass, more textures, and better trees. This route will go from L.A. Union Station, next to the L.A. River, over the fly-over, thru Hobart Intermodal Terminal, thru Anaheim, thru Laguna Beach and onto Mailbu on the former ATSF. All stations are industry interactive. There is UP, BNSF, Metrolink, and Amtrak lines and former ATSF and SP. It runs thru city, suburbs, industrial, hillsides, and coastal regions and it's all prototypical! This route is for west coast/ commuters/ and freight operators!

Some screenies:

A couple locos crossing the Surfliner at Hobart and heading to Long Beach.

Here's an Amtrak train heading from Union Station (L.A. in the distance.) and heading thru Hobart.

Looking south of the diamond.

South of Hobart.

A veiw of the L.A. skyline in the distance.

A random shot north of Norwalk. -Chris

 

[WCL]

Pretty good

 

[Tokkyu40]

I have the current layout. I'm all set to be suitably impressed with the upgrade.
It would be nice if someone did some reskinned cars to match the locomotive, wouldn't it?
Keep up the good work!

Claude

 

[chrisracer8903]

Thanks you two. This route is gonna be great (And a fairly long one)! It would be nice if Magicland could reskin his GO F59PH and Coaches into a Metrolink skin because Surfliner serves Metrolink. If somebody could give me some maps, railroad information, and train symbols and timetables would be nice. Here's a teaser for ya:

UP local out of Commerce, picking-up a hopper on the Wye onto the old Montebello Industrial Lead in Montebello, California.

 

[titaniclover]

looks good. cant wait for this one. some of my relitives live in that area.

 

[tyard]

f59PHI

Lets not forget that Amcal surfliner uses F59phi's (They're streamlined f59s), and sometimes P40-42s. And someone should make surfliner cars, and I think someone is.

 

[amtrak514]

Lets not forget that Amcal surfliner uses F59phi's (They're streamlined f59s), and sometimes P40-42s. And someone should make surfliner cars, and I think someone is.

Jeff944 will be making the Complete surfliner train, F59PHI, and the cars and in amtrak surfliner and metrolink paint schemes, once he gets the surfliner route for MSTS from me he'll start on the project but I need a file sender that is free and sends 600 megabyte files so if someone can send me a link to a website you'll have the Surfliner train sooner
Thanks amtrak514
P.S. the route looks good chris!!!

 

[chrisracer8903]

Here's an update. The Fly-over, L.A. River storm drain, and downtown Los Angeles including Union Station. Take a look!

Los Angeles River:

L.A. Union Station:

Enjoy! -Chris

 

[seany55520]

How come there is no water.

 

[nikos1]

How come there is no water.

because there isnt any in real life, the LA "river" is basically a big concrete ditch with little water http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_th...5/2/istockphoto_1822385_los_angeles_river.jpg
need to use a concrete texture though Chris

 

[titaniclover]

i have the predicescor to this and its looking loads better already i cant wait for it!

 

[chrisracer8903]

Will you guys please stop with the MSTS version. I dont want 40 useless posts about the MSTS version like I got when I made the first version of this. Also: why do you still care when I got the TRS version in the works? -Chris

 

[WCL]

Nice job there Chris on the route ....Keep up the good work....[/LEFT]

 

[AJ_Fox]

Hey Guys

Please keep your posts on topic. Off topics posts have been removed.

AJ

 

[Zorronov]

If somebody could give me some maps, railroad information, and train symbols and timetables would be nice.

Hi Chris. I live in Irvine, CA and recently took a very nice ride on the Surfliner from the Amtrak station in Irvine down to San Diego and back. My wife and I are planning on taking the Surfliner up to Santa Barbara soon. I'll see what I can do about some timetables and such. Keep up the fine work!

Z

 

[Zorronov]

Here's a pic. Hey...I've got a timetable in my hand! Not to worry I'll get another one.

Please ignore the big belly...I'm working on it.

Fred

 

[WCL]

Why do you need a TT when ya can just go here:

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/Conte...te_Page&c=am2Route&cid=1081256322013&ssid=132

Or ya can use this one here:
http://www.train-sim.com/cgi/zview?cm=view&fn=32/surftime.zip&an=SURFLINER TIMETABLE.txt

SURFLINER TIMETABLE

This timetable is taken from the official Amtrak publication,
effective April 28, 2003. This timetable features schedules
from Los Angelas to San Diego.

Not each and every train is featured here, just a few in each
direction.

SOUTHBOUNDS:

TRAIN: 562 564 768 774 582 590
---------------------------------------------------------------
Los Angelas 6:05a 7:20a 9:40a 12:25p 4:10p 7:35p
Fullerton 6:37a 7:52a 10:12a 12:57p 4:42p 8:07p
Anahiem 6:49a 8:02a 10:23a 1:06p 4:51p 9:16p
Santa Ana 7:01a 8:11a 10:32a 1:15p 5:00p 9:25p
Irvine 7:12a 8:24a 10:43a 1:26p 5:14p 9:36p
San Juan Cap. 7:26a 8:42a 11:02a 1:40p 5:31p 9:50p
Oceanside 7:57a 9:14a 11:34a 2:13p 6:00p 10:21p
Solana Beach 8:12a 9:31a 11:49a 2:28p 6:17p 10:36p
San Diego 8:55a 10:10a 12:25p 3:10p 7:00p 11:20p

Trip time 2h 50m 2h 50m 2h 45m 2h 45m 2h 50m

NOTES:
* Trains 562, 564, 582, and 590 are Los Angelas to San Diego
trains only.

* Train 768 originates in Goleta Ca., at 6:35 am with 12 stops
prior to LA.

* Train 774 is a Central Coast Surliner train, originating
in Paso Robles Ca. at 6:45a, with 15 stops prior to LA.

* Train 768 stops at San Clemente Pier at 11:08a Apr-Oct.



NORTHBOUNDS:

TRAIN: 763 565 769 775 583 589
----------------------------------------------------------------
San Diego 6:12a 7:05a 9:30a 12:00n 3:00p 5:50p
Solana Beach 6:45a 7:38a 10:03a 12:33p 3:33p 6:23p
Oceanside 7:00a 7:55a 10:18a 12:49p 3:52p 6:38p
San Juan Cap. 7:31a 8:30a 10:49a 1:23p 4:23p 7:25p
Irvine 7:47a 8:44a 11:05a 1:37p 4:37p 7:39p
Santa Ana 7:58a 8:55a 11:17a 1:50p 4:48p 7:55p
Anaheim 8:07a 9:04a 11:26a 1:59p 4:57p 8:04p
Fullerton 8:16a 9:13a 11:36a 2:08p 5:08p 8:13p
Los Angelas 8:50a 9:50a 12:15p 2:40p 5:45p 8:50p

Trip time 2 h 48m 2 h 45m 2 h 45m 2 h 40m 2 h 45m 3h

NOTES:
* Trains 763, and 769 are San Diego to Goleta trains.

* Trains 565, 583, and 589 are San Diego to LA trains only.

* Train 775 is a Central Coast Surfliner train, and terminates
at San Luis Obispo, Ca. at 8:30pm.

* Train 583 stops at San Clemente Pier at 4:13 pm Apr-Oct.

 

[WCL]

Heres your map

http://www.amtrak.com/images/maps/pacificsurfliner.htm

Heres some pix

http://www.railserve.com/jump/jump.cgi?ID=17255

 

[chrisracer8903]

Updates!

UP freight waits for a Metrolink train to pass into Fullerton Station where this train will come-off the UP and onto the former ATSF rails to the "LA Times" plant.

Baretable train thru Norwalk.

Outside of Norwalk Station. -Chris

 

[ish6]

great shotz!

But where are the car manufactures and factories that Detroit is so famous for?

Ish