I discovered this today while looking for things... I saw what was marked as a railroad trail on a map of Bermuda, (I only wish I was going to vacation there...) and decided to investigate the route. This is an interesting railway that existed briefly between 1922 and 1948. Today what's left is now a trail. The line its self was only about 22 miles and was standard gauge from what I can tell by the photographs. In the US this line would have been considered similar to an interurban, and used proprietary gasoline-powered multiple-unit trains built to carry mostly passengers. Any freight, other than a bit around the docks, was carried in what would be considered an LTL freight/baggage coach.
http://bermudarailway.net/index.html
After reading a bit about it and looking at the geography, I "so had to build this in Trainz!". After a bit of fussing and fiddling, I figured out how to download the 1 Arc-second GEOTiff files from the USGS Earth Explorer, which I highly recommend. www.earthexplorer.usgs.gov because you can get maps for many places around the world. I then downloaded the surface texture-images via TransDEM and imported the route ready for building soon(tm).![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
At this point, I'm not sure if I should build this as a modern - one that survived and is still in use today, or turn it into a narrow gauge tourist line. The modern route could use Class 156 DMUs for passengers and maybe some small diesel switchers for freight around the docks.
Though the line never ran steam, I was thinking that a narrow gauge steam route would be interesting. Small Mason Bogey and Farley steam locomotives could haul trains along a 2-foot gauge track. In retrospect, I may do this as I've never built a narrow gauge route before.
This will be a cool project, which will take time to build.
John
http://bermudarailway.net/index.html
After reading a bit about it and looking at the geography, I "so had to build this in Trainz!". After a bit of fussing and fiddling, I figured out how to download the 1 Arc-second GEOTiff files from the USGS Earth Explorer, which I highly recommend. www.earthexplorer.usgs.gov because you can get maps for many places around the world. I then downloaded the surface texture-images via TransDEM and imported the route ready for building soon(tm).
At this point, I'm not sure if I should build this as a modern - one that survived and is still in use today, or turn it into a narrow gauge tourist line. The modern route could use Class 156 DMUs for passengers and maybe some small diesel switchers for freight around the docks.
Though the line never ran steam, I was thinking that a narrow gauge steam route would be interesting. Small Mason Bogey and Farley steam locomotives could haul trains along a 2-foot gauge track. In retrospect, I may do this as I've never built a narrow gauge route before.
This will be a cool project, which will take time to build.
John