Hello! This past weekend thus far, I spent some time re-updating some older scenes on my fictional railroad. I haven't shown much of this route in a while, so I wanted to share these screenshots of those updated scenes on the portion of the route that takes place roughly in western Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and parts of northern Virginia. However, over time, I also wanted the look of these scenes to be particularly inspired by the former Western Maryland Railway's trackage on the CSX Lurgan Subdivision.
In these scenes, we follow a CSX local depicted as it would look on this trackage in approximately the mid 1990s.
We first see the local reversing northward on the wye as it crosses the river on the connection from the former Baltimore and Ohio RR (on the Maryland side of the river) to the former Western Maryland Railway's trackage (on the northern Virginia side):
After reversing onto the ex-WM trackage (and also the middle of the street running section), the local pulls forward and heads roughly southwest to the grain elevator and cold storage facilities outside of town:
Also here's the southmost end of the street running section. I wanted to share this also because I genuinely enjoy designing and configuring convoluted intersections like this in Trainz,
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The local now starts to clear the street running portion and accelerates uphill into the scenic hills and farmland:
I actually forgot to update most of the vegetation assets in this next screenshot, but I figured everything still looked really nice to share anyway,
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There might be some unfinished background scenery in these next two images, but I still wanted to share them, too:
I hope you all enjoyed these!
Thanks for reading.
- Sean.
