Good Evening all,
It is nearing the end of good week, accomplished all but one of the Tasks I wanted to complete, so that means a planned return Trip to Arizona.
Now for the Route, I have been wheeling and a dealing with all the mass changes in store, it just amazing how long it takes for each area to complete what I would like to see in Details and running Trackage etc.
The last two nights, I have been building River Front facilities for Lake Ports, Ore and Cargo Ships coming up to drop and pick up supplies. (You see pictures later after get thru others I have to show you. Our River area is just wide enough for the smaller Container Ships, no Ocean size ships, we aren't deep enough either to allow larger ships in here.
Below is one of little problems I need to address, the lights don't flash which all about makes this crossing protection useless, I do have a set I will need to change too.
Unfortunately this looks like a TANE issue of compatibility, all the Patrons are out position, over the tracks and too high in the air, so I can't use this AJS Train Station, Sad because it is one nice looking station.
Another issue, lots of the buildings are set way to close for Clearance with the Train.
Map of Alps route below, I have gotten thru all the Snow area, but Green area to the right will be a big Challenge because their is Grade % issues, some 9% so lots of rejiggering the Tunnel Heights and connections to Canadian Route to the Far diagonal Right out of this picture view.
This inset view, the Red Lines is area I actively redoing now, and the Yellow part is for next 2 weeks.
Our test Junk Train is going thru the Tracks to check Grade Clearances etc, Grade Percents.
We are head to East end of the Canyon here to next City,, I'm checking Snow Shed Clearances, and these Sheds need to be expanded as I don't think they afford long enough protection for the area slides they see in this area.
On this side you can see the mountain to the Right is very steep, and even though we have a good swath of Trees, if the Snow depth is deep enough, and the right conditions exist, the Trees could get knocked out of the way for a bad avalanche......We will be adding a lot more Snow Sheds and other types of protection.
We are in very nice area here, and do have to watch for Snow buildup.
Over head view here, in particular the Logging Plant, to our amazement, the Tracks are broken from Ice movement, in the next post will see what happens to our Train......
Also look at the Mountains here, for some reason, I guess they didn't finish Texturing the rest of the Mountain, works for me, as I have to build and combine several mountains on the left, that is where my Canadian Route merges parallel to this one.
Tomorrow Folks, I driving home, so I wanted to post some extra pictures now.
Next time I post will be home in Sunny California.
Thanks for visiting here.........