It's Not the Yooper anymore. For years I worked on a Route I called the Yooper. I worked it from TS09 to TS12 and became frustrated in computer performance as I added more details. It was a demographic route of Fishlipsatwork It included the Lines of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR. However the lines were not all LS&I. I discovered it also included many since lost lines; Those of the Duluth Southshore & Atlantic, The Chicago & Northwestern RR, The Marquette & Onotonagon RR, The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific RR, The Dead River RR, Along with many mine owned RR's like the Present Day Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR that is owned by the Cleveland Cliffs Company.
http://archives.nmu.edu/cci/Index.html
The Reason why this is no longer the Yooper. In the origional Dem I was able to Identify all of the above road names and lines and by going through the Archives of Michigan and google earth for traces of track loacations which are now mostly all "heritage trails for snowmobiles", along with this book, The Duluth Shore & Atlantic Railway, A history of the Lake Superior Districts's Pioneer Iron Ore Hauler, by John Gaertner. John went into detail of all the yards and lines of the Copper & Iron Belts in Michigan and which RR serviced which Mine, and any trackage rights of one RR over another.
So, why it's not the Yooper. When you take into account the number of Railroads which serviced the Copper and Iron Country, how they interchanged with each other, where they came from and where they went. That Dem Just won't work for Traffic routing. Up to 86 Train movements a day took place a day according to John Gaertners book. YOU can't do that on the Dem. I was able to do 50 movement's comfortably, but not 86. So you need to extend the Dem into Wisconsin.
In doing so, you pick up the Wisconsin ports on Lake Michigan of Green Bay, Marinette, Oconto, and the Michigan Ports of Escanaba, Wells, and Gladstone. In other words it's the Great Lakes, because the lines now connect from the Ports on Lake Superior to the Ports on lake Michigan to within a couple feet. Fishlipsatwork who created some of the origional dems in this project, said "I hand drew them in" I'm measuring them. (see the picture below of a river going over a hill by fishlipsat work)
I am just beginning to lay down Rail on this Dem, and the Chicago & Northwestern is sharing Rail out of Republic, MI for the time being, to Iron Mountian, MI With the Milwaukee Road. I can run 60 Trains at once on this route. When I get the Partridge Yard of the Chicago & North Western in Palmer, MI Hooked up with Gladestone, MI I'll move 100.
The Great Lakes Project is the Yooper Route on Steroids.
http://archives.nmu.edu/cci/Index.html
The Reason why this is no longer the Yooper. In the origional Dem I was able to Identify all of the above road names and lines and by going through the Archives of Michigan and google earth for traces of track loacations which are now mostly all "heritage trails for snowmobiles", along with this book, The Duluth Shore & Atlantic Railway, A history of the Lake Superior Districts's Pioneer Iron Ore Hauler, by John Gaertner. John went into detail of all the yards and lines of the Copper & Iron Belts in Michigan and which RR serviced which Mine, and any trackage rights of one RR over another.
So, why it's not the Yooper. When you take into account the number of Railroads which serviced the Copper and Iron Country, how they interchanged with each other, where they came from and where they went. That Dem Just won't work for Traffic routing. Up to 86 Train movements a day took place a day according to John Gaertners book. YOU can't do that on the Dem. I was able to do 50 movement's comfortably, but not 86. So you need to extend the Dem into Wisconsin.
In doing so, you pick up the Wisconsin ports on Lake Michigan of Green Bay, Marinette, Oconto, and the Michigan Ports of Escanaba, Wells, and Gladstone. In other words it's the Great Lakes, because the lines now connect from the Ports on Lake Superior to the Ports on lake Michigan to within a couple feet. Fishlipsatwork who created some of the origional dems in this project, said "I hand drew them in" I'm measuring them. (see the picture below of a river going over a hill by fishlipsat work)
I am just beginning to lay down Rail on this Dem, and the Chicago & Northwestern is sharing Rail out of Republic, MI for the time being, to Iron Mountian, MI With the Milwaukee Road. I can run 60 Trains at once on this route. When I get the Partridge Yard of the Chicago & North Western in Palmer, MI Hooked up with Gladestone, MI I'll move 100.
The Great Lakes Project is the Yooper Route on Steroids.
