South Shore Harbor Line

[Floridarailmaster]

History of old railroads are one of my favorite things to study. Especialy the history of railroads such as the new york central railroad which was abandoned in the early 70's.

This route how ever had the same fate, taking place in the Shore side city. The line running the South Shore Harbor line (A terminal Railroad and inter city switching company) used to be own by a major carier back in the 80's.

The route is only a couple of base boards right now but I plan on expanding the line much larger.

much of the route takes place in the city and theres sidings for factorys and buisness's everywhere which means alot of switching. I havent made a yard for it yet...and there is a passenger line there that only operates a local service at the moment. As the route expands service and scheduals will also expand...At the moment the line uses Ex BNSF and SP Units

Heres some pictures

Enjoy

 

[seeseeme]

Excellent screenshots, and I love the use of the grass around the tracks, very impressive and obviously a lot of work (are they Jan's Grasses ?? ). I love the sunset/rise in the last image.

Congratulations.

Craig

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Thanks Craig, Ive been trying hard to make this route look good

More shots and reskins soon

 

[Alan_Yeomans]

Some cool looking shotz.

The use of the buildings, powerlines and 2nd track in the first post are awesome and creates a great effect.

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Thanks alan, I wanted to give it the feel of like the behind the scenes look from a Busy city, Something old and dirty but still running

 

[dnutter]

Wow that amazing of pictures here! Good work:Y:, Floridarailmaster!

 

[Saieditor]

I agree with Alan. There is an excellent sense of perspective there, especially with the dual levels.

 

[HSSRAIL]

The New York Central has not been abandoned the company was merged with the Pennsylvania and continues on though it is an investment company now. The successor company to Penn Central has managed to annoy New Yorker's from time to time over the terms of the leases of some of its track and facilities the squabble occassionally makes the local papers.

Many of the routes of the former NYC have been abandoned but many are also intact operated by others.

 

[WCL]

I like them first few pix ya got there with the train on top like that ...Reminds me of something ya would see in Milwaukee

 

[Floridarailmaster]

The ill fated penn central railroad abandoned operations and well care of the engines and tracks owned by the railroad...which eventualy went to other railroads at the time.

The manhattan railroad would be a good representation of what I'm trying to create...a city that uses the rails for transport of inner city goods. Sidings everywhere for factorys everywhere and such are the idea. With this route your job will have to be to dis assemble frieght trains and send them to there proper factorys...only to recollect them along the line and assemble them again to be sent out side of the city. Major switching work lol. Or ride a passenger train with second hand equipmnt, managing to stay out of the way of switchers and other frieght trains that may pass by the area.

At the moment there isn't any paticular release date but the route itself is free...a payware package of the route with switched scenery (more detailed scenery that I will create specificaly for this route), a bunch of sessions, and reskins of my own content for this railroad will be availible also.

Happy independence day to all of my patriot friends and may god bless the united states

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Extra post please delete

 

[ish6]

awesome shotz!!!:hehe: :wave:

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Some Hand-Me-Down GP40-2's just arrived from the factory, with Brand new Traction motors some of them will handle switching while the rest handle passenger service

My Own personal Loco

 

[casey38]

This is amazing !

Congrats to the author.

Those screenies show a top notch realism level. I guess it will be hard to keep this level, so, take your time as you work on your very well done route.

Best regards,

André.

 

[nikos1]

route and locos are looking great! Mike did you do that SP GP40?:mop:

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Thanks andre,

Nikos, That SP was Jorams GP35, I modified it and weathered it up a bit. Unfortunatly it hasnt been approved to be released

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Some new stuff from the shops

 

[skiingiggy]

That looks amazing.... I'm a huge SP fan. it stinks that you can't release that loco.....

 

[Floridarailmaster]

The route at the moment...It will expand drasticly

 

[Floridarailmaster]

Heavens Pass

That area isnt yet complete but its a stretch over the urban neighborhood