Virginia Railway Express System

[flusi737]

Hi...a new thread from me...

The title says it all. I'll rebuild the complete VRE System. Here's a map: http://vre.org/service/systmmp.htm
Work starts....NOW!


Felix

 

[flusi737]

 

[flusi737]

Southern NEC part...Washington First Street Tunnel - L' Enfant

 

[JCitron]

Nice Start, Felix.

When are you taking a trip over here to take pictures?

John

 

[flusi737]

Haha thanks

i've been in the US 2 1/2 months ago Boston - New York - Washington aboard NER #147 and #171. I made 1000+ pictures of the route....

 

[JCitron]

Haha thanks

i've been in the US 2 1/2 months ago Boston - New York - Washington aboard NER #147 and #171. I made 1000+ pictures of the route....

Awesome! There's so much to see here, yet so time to see it all. I took a drive to northeastern Pennsylvania and took about that many pictures and this barely scratched the surface of what we saw or could see in the time we had.

John

 

[montanawestren]

Oh sweet, cool to see that its being done, I remember seeing it when I was in D.C., It was pretty cool

 

[opus722]

I think I still have a Richmond to DC DEM, i.e. the ex-Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac, where the VRE runs on the Fredericksburg to DC portion of that line. It doesn't, however, include the entire Manassas Line since that is ex-Southern. I think the it only goes out to the Fairfax County line lopping off the last 10 miles or so. TIGER lines also show the now long gone Potomac Yard as well. I can give it to you if you are interested, provided I didn't delete it.

 

[stagecoachdriverdave]

Looking good so far! Although L'Enfant is actually a low level platform

 

[flusi737]

Thanks....edited:

 

[H222]

http://hostthenpost.org/uploads/a2556d506648d911e9832e02079ced1e.jpg

What are the staircase splines you're using Felix?

Jamie

 

[flusi737]

Its builtin into TS12 and called 'Covered Walkover Spline'. But notice that the black ones are not available, they are my reskins...

 

[flusi737]

Potomac River....

 

[KenRuof]

Nice... I presently live in NVA and do hear the VRE now and then. One of my favorite little restaurants is in Clifton right along the VRE where they blaze through with horn blasting.

 

[boc61]

Nice work as usual.

 

[flusi737]

Nice... I presently live in NVA and do hear the VRE now and then. One of my favorite little restaurants is in Clifton right along the VRE where they blaze through with horn blasting.

Make pics and i'll may include it in the route as good as possible

reached Alexandria, VA estimated time for scenery work: 1h!



btw...did i mention that this route IS included in the original NEC route WAS - Boston?

 

[AMTRAKwannabe]

Hey, after this you should do the Auto Train! It should only take you like a day... :hehe:

 

[flusi737]

What route is the 'Auto Train' ? Is equippment available? Good quality..?

 

[AMTRAKwannabe]

Amtrak's auto train, there are some Amtrak autoracks on the DLS (Tri-Level ETTX Autorack Amtrak) and the rest of the train is P42's and superliners, from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Train
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Train_Corporation

It's a pretty cool concept, you take your car with you on the train.

 

[flusi737]

Hm...lorton, VA is on the VRE route. So i'll have a 1% part of the Auto Train route