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[MeowRailroad]

Normhart, where'd you get the original route? I want to make a sugar mill island, but it's too hard. I'd like to modify it for myself as well.

 

[normhart]

Saint Barbara Island by gfisher is on the DLS/CM MeowRailroad.

I've made very little change to it really, the freight dock at Port Christopher and associated track, the plantation RR, several flag stops along the 20+ miles of mainline, added a few loading docks for the pre-existing orange, banana, and sugar cane fields, and the sugar cane plant itself, convert the Saint Barbara RR to wood, removing the coal facilities.

I've begun introducing railroad related industries; lumbering, wood fuel and tie production, ash collection and I'm looking for a place for a soap manufactory/potash processing. I'm also looking for a possible slaughter house location and fisheries. I'd love to work on the other side of the island but it appears that my talents aren't up to the challenge. The only substantial change I've made to the vegetation is planting miles and miles of sugar cane splines. That will change if I'm successful at getting the lumbering operation up since the highlands are un-textured and un-planted.

:wave: Hi George! Must make a nice change from Rockport! Do you boat down? :hehe:

(I'm sure there must be a suitable yacht in trainz)

 

[normhart]

I've made substantial changes at the Saint Barbara RR Yard. You can see almost the entire roster of locomotives and rolling stock here.


The remaining engine is at the wye just outside of Saint Barbara Township.


The engine shed there serves as a good gathering spot.


TS12SP1HF4

 

[normhart]

Good King George, Geo. Fisher late of Rockport, Mass, arrives at Port Christopher, Saint Barbara Island with typical fanfare!



At the freight dock across the bay you can see his two steam schooners and to the right, one of his less brilliant ideas, a paddle wheeler used for tourist travel up and down the eastern coast of the island. She stays in harbor unless the seas are unusually calm.

(The steam schooners, the paddle wheeler, and another steam/sail schooner are all drivable engines with a circular route up and down the coast with stops at Port Christopher and Saint Barbara Township)

 

[normhart]

A map of Saint Barbara, as you can see there is much undeveloped terrain. The east coast is quite steep and rough.



Saint Barbara Township is at the northern end and Georgetown is at the southern end. Port Christopher is the west most point.

(and yes there are rumors of pirate treasure but I haven't found it yet)

Edit: LOL this map is upside down. D'oh!

Edit again: Fixed

 

[Matt3985]

Wow now thats a big Island, Looks great Normhart keep up the good work.

 

[normhart]

Wow now thats a big Island, Looks great Normhart keep up the good work.

To quote from gfisher's comments "The terrain was originally done from a DEM by fishlips as Island 1, and I give him my thanks".

It's a little over 20 miles from north to south. When you look at what I've done its a drop in the bucket.

A little correction: his name for the route is St Barbara Railroad.

Edit: another not so small correction. I got the map upside down. :hehe: (fixed that)

 

[KenRuof]

Looking good Norm, I always liked that Route and did a 30in gauge version myself.

 

[gfisher]

The terrain is of a real west coast island off California, but I moved it to the West Indies.

 

[normhart]

Looking good Norm, I always liked that Route and did a 30in gauge version myself.

It seems like a popular route to modify and looks amazingly good considering it is a TRS2006 route, but then many of gfisher's routes have withstood the test of time.

The terrain is of a real west coast island off California, but I moved it to the West Indies.

I was wondering, yesterday I spent some time on Google Earth looking at Caribbean islands and found several that were very close in size and shape but none with the rather dramatic ridgeline.

 

[Railwoodman]

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[normhart]

I just discovered that pencil42's Dock (transfer) supports 2 tracks (the outer one is called Road but if you hook up a track it adapts! Nice!

 

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[johnnytrain]

Two shots from Glen Rhu. A loose congregation of Scottish West Highland memories encircled by bands of steel. It's actually a circuit of approx. 5 miles with a link line (just visible on the distant hills as a line of bushes) climbing to a high level main line. This is one small corner. Still a bit to be done in the other corners scenery wise.

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EDIT: Many thanks chris (below). Hopefully these'll show up now. Cheers!

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

Johnny, you'll need to upload your pictures to an online picture-sharing site (e.g. Imgur, Photobucket, etc.) then copy the pictures into your post from there by clicking the "Insert Image" button in the posting window and pasting the pic's URL into the box.

 

[817TAYLOR]

Test runs of C&HR commuters on finished-ish areas of my Rosewood route.

 

[jacksonbarno]

Lots of traffic during WWII at the Thunder Ridge engine terminal.

The western most engine terminal in the LE&E's massive Thunder Ridge yard complex happened to fall underneath the confluence of the Thunder Ridge division (the mainline) and the Wyoming division (to Scranton). During a 1929 expansion of the westbound hump yard, the yard leads for the departure yard were routed past the terminal, and the enginehouse/servicing facilities were from then on used as a staging point for motive power on westbound trains.

 

[Railwoodman]

jacksonbarno Nice shot, really liking that amount of steam traffic . Is that bridge on the DL, the double warren ?


Matt

 

[MeowRailroad]

I like how the bridges go over the yard, that's really unique and interesting.

 

[jacksonbarno]

Thanks guys! Matt, unfortunately that bridge is a skin of an unreleased asset.