I've been working on my venerable Enfield and Eastern off and on since December 2003. The same route, in its various iterations, has been through every Trainz version since TRS2004. Over the years the route expanded and contracted, got put on the shelf, resurrected, and almost deleted at one point but my heart said not to do that, because my heart said that would be like losing and old friend.
A about 8 months ago I found version 2.0 and version 3.0 tucked away on CDs. Yes, I backed up all my TRS2004 content on to a single CD back then! The old CDP for version 2.0 was processed through TS12 then brought into T:ANE with little fanfare or issues. The route imported fine, but boy was my texturing bad and track work was pretty bad as well! The route, however, had a theme to it which I've continued since then.
I repeated the same process with version 3.0, which actually was created in TRS2006. Parts of this route still exist in my current iteration, but there was a section in particular I liked out of this as well, which I had deleted way back in TS2010 days due to the poor draw distance. I deleted everything but a small section of this version, and have included that in my current route as if to make the route complete again. I figured out where the particular baseboards fit into the route, and deleted a newer section and fit in this leg. I then created some tween boards to connect the original seaport area and city from 2.0 to 3.0 and connected this to the rest of my world.
The version 3.0 route segment, at this point, has been completely rebuilt from the ground up with some expansion and substantial changes. The track route is very much the same, but reworked and cleaned up. During the merging process between 2.0 and 3.0 into my current iteration of 6.0.2, I also merged in the old Jay Connecting railroad. What was missing in version 3.0 was the continuation of a city on the "other side" of the river. Being an early route, the tracks were at zero ground level and the merge went fine. The Jay Street Connecting route is now Hull and fills in the rest of the city with the big river port. A bit of clean up and alignment allowed me to run a branch to Jay Street and everything blends in nicely.
The story of my route, the Enfield and Eastern, has been chronicled in detail a few times, and rather than go into infinite details the gist is there were once two competing lines, the Enfield and Eastport and the old Boston and Maine. The B&M ran up on the highlands and connected the bigger cities while the E&E followed the river valley and both served the same area. Eventually both companies were merged together after the B&M consumed the E&E along with other railroads in the region. In the 1980s Guilford nearly destroyed everything, but decided to sell off the branches to a local business entity, thus the current Enfield and Eastern was born.
Here are some screen captures of my current rebuilding process:




Shown left to right is: The Enfield and Eastern Mainline, and a detailed overview of the HCRR.
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A about 8 months ago I found version 2.0 and version 3.0 tucked away on CDs. Yes, I backed up all my TRS2004 content on to a single CD back then! The old CDP for version 2.0 was processed through TS12 then brought into T:ANE with little fanfare or issues. The route imported fine, but boy was my texturing bad and track work was pretty bad as well! The route, however, had a theme to it which I've continued since then.
I repeated the same process with version 3.0, which actually was created in TRS2006. Parts of this route still exist in my current iteration, but there was a section in particular I liked out of this as well, which I had deleted way back in TS2010 days due to the poor draw distance. I deleted everything but a small section of this version, and have included that in my current route as if to make the route complete again. I figured out where the particular baseboards fit into the route, and deleted a newer section and fit in this leg. I then created some tween boards to connect the original seaport area and city from 2.0 to 3.0 and connected this to the rest of my world.
The version 3.0 route segment, at this point, has been completely rebuilt from the ground up with some expansion and substantial changes. The track route is very much the same, but reworked and cleaned up. During the merging process between 2.0 and 3.0 into my current iteration of 6.0.2, I also merged in the old Jay Connecting railroad. What was missing in version 3.0 was the continuation of a city on the "other side" of the river. Being an early route, the tracks were at zero ground level and the merge went fine. The Jay Street Connecting route is now Hull and fills in the rest of the city with the big river port. A bit of clean up and alignment allowed me to run a branch to Jay Street and everything blends in nicely.
The story of my route, the Enfield and Eastern, has been chronicled in detail a few times, and rather than go into infinite details the gist is there were once two competing lines, the Enfield and Eastport and the old Boston and Maine. The B&M ran up on the highlands and connected the bigger cities while the E&E followed the river valley and both served the same area. Eventually both companies were merged together after the B&M consumed the E&E along with other railroads in the region. In the 1980s Guilford nearly destroyed everything, but decided to sell off the branches to a local business entity, thus the current Enfield and Eastern was born.
Here are some screen captures of my current rebuilding process:




Shown left to right is: The Enfield and Eastern Mainline, and a detailed overview of the HCRR.
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