Route Of Your Home Area For Trainz?

[Ferrous]

I have repeatedly attempted to recreate the Calera & Shelby (my home railroad--it's the railroad portion of the Heart of Dixie RR Museum), but have failed miserably every time. If I could ever get a DEM of the whole route and not just the first quarter mile, I'd do it and the Calera area (CSX S&NA sub--B'ham to Montgomery--, NS line to Columbiana, plus quarries abound)...

But until the funds (and gmax skilz, as I won't settle for anything lees than 95% proto fidelity ) present themselves, it's still a pipe dream...

 

[nnavel]

I grew up and lived off and on in Reading PA. I started a layout (Reading Pa) based on the city back with the first commercial version of Trainz. An update followed called Reading PA2 which corrected (?) lots of sloppy work in the original. One of these days I may release a third version that now includes the entire East Penn branch to Blandon, the PRR-Reading interchange (today the RCTHS Temple station) and the Spruce St yard lines in south Reading. That should cover every last mile of track here (dont plan to include any PRR lines!)

Other routes of the area were done by Rooneth3808 (NS Reading Lines, Reading & Northern etc). They are very professional and include various parts of the city. Aside from the quality, the main difference is that his depict current railroads while mine covers the Reading Company up to 1976

 

[bl4882]

I've lived in the Bay Area almost all of my life and currently live in the South Bay. I am now working on the coast route from Salinas to San Jose as it would have been at the point of dieselization of the Espee, mid to late 50s. Eventually there will be a cluster of routes extending from San Luis Obispo through the Bay Area to Roseville. Given the rate of progress I should be done on my 125th birthday.:wave:

Bernie

 

[VinnyBarb]

What about this one?

Early in January this year I moved from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The only single railway line running through Alice Springs is the Adelaide to Darwin line, some 1500 km (900+ miles) long in either direction, a total of about 3000 km. Imagine how many base boards long this would be if it were getting recreated in TRS :hehe:

One day perhaps I might attempt this stretch

Cheers

VinnyBarb

 

[ldowns]

Mine's the northeast corner of Ohio, roughly bounded by Cleveland--Ashtabula--Girard--Sterling, with plenty of Erie, B&O, NYC, NKP, W&LE, PRR and a bit of Akron, Canton & Youngstown. Mostly trying to be reasonably accurate within the limits of the assets available for download, though I couldn't resist running the B&O Painesville line through the Grand River canyon instead of around it. Everything's at about 1/3 scale and still a huge amount of scenery to add in...

--Lamont

 

[Approach_Medium]

I am trying to create the lines that run through northern NJ USA.
This includes CSX, NS, NJT, Amtrak, NYSW, and several small tourist lines.
I am just beginning to use TransDem Trainz edition for this work. Still learning the ropes of this powerful tool, but it looks like the project will be much easier than doing it all manually!

FW

 

[sethmcs]

Johnstown PA & Bethlehem Steel Shortline C&BL

I am still modeling Johnstown PA which has proven to be a large project that has over a year worth of time invested. See progress here: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=20264

 

[SuperFudd]

bl4882


I hope you have noticed that AJ_Fox and slave-driver have been working on the Fremont to Stockton area.
I have done a compressed version of the Niles Canyon area in my Niles and Hinton on the DLS.

 

[Enkidoh]

I live within a kilometre of Transperth's Perth to Midland railway in Perth, Western Australia, which someone made for Trainz 1.3 in a very basic form (minus overhead wiring and with incorrect track arrangements at Perth and Midland), and released it on the DLS (under the title 'Perth2Midland').

I used this as a basis for the entire Perth suburban rail network, using a street directory, photos and own knowledge for reference (there was a proper scale Perth suburban network project for TRS2004 in development, but sadly I haven't heard anything recently in regards to it and aren't sure if it's still being developed).

At the moment, the entire Perth to Armadale line is fully electrified and operational, with the original Perth to Midland section in the process of having overhead wiring added, and trackwork for the Perth to Fremantle line recently completed. Eventually I'll get around to adding the Joondalup, Thornlie and Mandurah lines too, along with the freight-only line through the southern suburbs. If I'm lucky, I should finish it by the time they retire the new B set EMUs to the Rail Museum.

 

[bl4882]

bl4882


I hope you have noticed that AJ_Fox and slave-driver have been working on the Fremont to Stockton area.
I have done a compressed version of the Niles Canyon area in my Niles and Hinton on the DLS.

SuperFudd

Downloaded your Niles & Hinton some time ago and have had a lot of fun with it. Thanks.

I started my take on Espee's Coast Division a few months ago and have been laying track since. Started south of Salinas and end of track is now just north of Gilroy using fishlipsatwork's DEM. Things are going quicker as I ascend the learning curve.

I've been very surprised to learn that laying good track in TRS may require less labor and time but certainly just as much care and attention as laying good track in HO scale.

Bernie

 

[rjhowie1]

Don't know if this counts but I have just basically finished building the former tramway system that existed here in Glasgow City. It includes every single street track and covers the city and suburbs and totals 238 boards. The lines allrun where they once did as my tribute to what was the most extensive one outside London and when young loved it to bits. Still have some tidying up and checking of course but anywhere a street or road had a line they are here. To my knowledge no-one has done a non-fictional tram system of this size and has been a slog for my first attempt. Definitely Glasgow ell spotlighted!

 

[steamtrainman]

One that i really want to see, and really want to get a project started for, is the Shenandoah division from Bluefield, WV to Roanoke, Virginia, (And maybe add one from there) and have Roanoke as it was, during the N&W haydays, with the huge shop complex, station, passenger trains, and so on. I really think it would be worth putting a project together for, as it is some very serious rail line.

 

[JimDep]

North Central Colorado's "Front Range & Greeley Subdivision" has been a work in progress for over 2 years, beginning on '04 and transposed to '06.

The railroad's include BNSF, UP, and the Great Western Railway. Two complete routes of the area covered are from the modern era and 1954.

The 1954 era focuses on the sugar beat factories still using steam and featuring early diesels.

The map area covers :

Front Range Subdivision: BNSF from south of Longmont, CO heading north through the Cheyenne, WY BNSF yard and continuing north to Warren Airforce Base. Areas featured along the route include:
Longmont, Berthoud, Loveland, Fort Collins, Wellington, Owl Canyon, Speer, WY and Cheyenne.
Note that in 1954, the BNSF route modeled in this project was the Colorado & Southern RR.

Greeley Subdivision: UP line beginning at MP 40 just south of La Salle, CO north through the Cheyenne, including the Cheyenne Yard

Fort Collins Subdivision: UP branch between La Salle and Boettcher (north Fort Collins) up to the cement factory above La Porte.


GWR: Colorado locations include: Longmont GW sugar factory heading north through Johnstown (including the Welty Branch) , Miliken (Hillsboro UP interchange) Kelim (Officer Junction), Loveland ( GW sugar factory and BNSF interchange) Windsor, and up to the North Yard in Fort Collins for interchange with BNSF and occasional UP and down to Greeley on the old C&S line. Partial Black Hollow (Sinnard) branch is included in the modern version and the full Black Hollow and Eaton branch is included in the 1954 version.

Some of the major industries served include the Anheuser Busch (Budwieser) plant north of Fort Collins, Rawhide Energy plant (above Owl Canyon), Front Range Energy and Eastman Kodak in Windsor Colorado , Holcim Cement in LaPorte, Colorado, Borie Oil Refinery near Cheyenne, various feed and grain mills, cattle farms, building suppliers,
and numerous others.

Progress:

The track, terrain and some major interactive industries are done. Scenery and industries are a continued work in progress.

If anyone wants more detail, I'd be happy to share.

JD

 

[LVman]

I Havent done much, but the most local one was the LV Naples Branch. Once i can concohct a DEM for it, i'll start work on it
As for the other? Was the 7mi long Bath & Hammondsport!
lol
Yeah, im gonna model onna dem.
who knows who'll be first?!
Cheers.
Sean

 

[brickbuilder711]

I started working on FEC (Florida East Coast) trackage near my area, which is South Florida.

 

[ninailer]

I live near Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been working on the Arkansas and Missouri line since the beginning of the year. I used HOG to create the baseboards from just north of Fayetteville to the Arkansas river at Van Buren. So far I've got track laid from the north through Fayetteville, West Fork and the Winslow tunnel. The rails are almost to Chester now.

The map seems huge. I suspect the track length will be about fifty miles. I might get finished in a few years. The neat thing is that the A&M railroad does tourist runs every weekend for half the year over the route. So I'll be able to ride and check my route.

 

[mononlaf]

JimDep - being somewhat familiar with the front range from Denver to Ft Collins, I will be very interested in both versions of your route.

Been several years since I've been out there, but I seem to remember a rail line running parallel and fairly close to I-25. Is this the line you are modeling? If so, it'll be fairly straight, flat running, but all the industries you are talking about should make for some interesting dispatch and train make-up challenges.

Are you including the old Stapleton airport in the 1954 version?

Dick

 

[JimDep]

Hi Mononlaf,

I just caught your post. BNSF runs parallel to I-25 from north of Fort Collins up to the Owl Canyon siding and meets again near Speer, WY.
Union Pacific runs parallel to HWY 85 and stays fairly flat between La Salle and Greeley. North of Greeley, the elevation climbs heading up to Wyoming.

Overall, the elevation ranges approximately between 4700 ft to 6200 ft just north of Cheyenne, WY. Most of the variation is between Fort Collins / Greeley and Cheyenne.

The Great Western Railway (short line) interchanges with both BNSF and UP. The GWR route includes the town of Windsor that was recently hit hard by a tornado causing extensive damage to the area.

The industries along the way will be challenging! The Budweiser Plant is one of my favorites with shipping and receiving docks that require frequent switching.

Unfortunatly, Stapleton Airport is not included in the 1954 version because my route does not go that far south.

This route of North Central Colorado is a large area and I might break it down to smaller sections that can be merged together. Thanks for your interest and feel free to check with me on the progress. Look for screen shots along the way.

JD

 

[Dap]

Central Iowa Railroad

I am historically modeling the Ft Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railroad. This means I have started out with the first 3-1/2 miles of mainline track from when it was the Boone Valley Coal & Railway Co. in 1893. That was last year when I first acquired Trainz. From there, tracks were laid another 17 miles northwest to Gowrie and the name changed to the Marshalltown & Dakota in 1899. After two years of operations (about 1 month in Trainz), the name was changed to Boone, Rockwell City & Northwestern. During this time tracks were laid further northwest headed to Rockwell City. Before the tracks got there, the name was changed again in 1902 to Newton & Northwestern.

I am currently in early 1903 when a trestle 784ft long and 154ft high will be constructed over a tributary to the Des Moines River west of Boone. While this bridge is being built, track is also being laid from Boone, southeast to Newton. On March 28, 1904 the first shipment of freight will depart Newton. It will be a boxcar of furniture bound for Rockwell City. (This according to the Newton Daily News 1904 newspaper.)

By 1906 the name will become the Ft Dodge Des Moines & Southern, which it kept until it was absorbed into the C&NW in 1968. This shortline had it all - steam power, electric inteurban operations, a major interchange road, converted to deisel in the 1950's.

I have the DEM terrain for all of the future lines of this interesting road. Not sure how many squares, but it represents almost 200 miles of mainline and branchlines.

The thing I am enjoying most is the research needed to determine where the tracks were laid over 100 yrs ago. Some of the lines only lasted a few years. Some of the track (including the first 3-1/2 miles of track and the bridge that replaced the trestle) are still in use today.

When I was in college, I could see the tracks from my dorm window. That was my first exposure to this railroad. I do not know how long it will take me to finish this historic modeling project but I do know that I am having lots of fun with it.

 

[Yorkshire]

I have just about completed the planning from maps & old track plans of the line from Bradford Exchange station (UK) to Leeds Central through my home town of Pudsey with the Stanningley branch as it was in the late 50's early 60's. Have decided to wait for TC3 and will model it in that.