Where to find Cape May County

[Little_Boy921]

So I got the new K&L PRR K4 anniversary pack recently and I've been looking for routes that would be perfect to run them on. There are, unfortunatly, not a lot of PRR routes in trainz so I decided to try downloading Cape May County, a route that I first learned about back in 2014 after watching a review of it on YouTube. I didn't actually get it at the time since I was playing trainz on my ipad. Anyways, I tried looking the route up on google. Nothing popped up, except the review vid I watched when I was 11, two old discussion threads on the route, and that was it. So I tried the video which had the route linked in the description. Said link lead to one of these dead redirect website things, meaning that the website itself is dead. Shouldn't have been too surprised considering the route is over a decade old. So I tried the Wayback Machine and managed to find the website the route was on. Only problem: you have to be logged in to download and the page that comes after the register account screen seems to have not been achieved. At this point, Im not really sure what to do. I know the route has to exist somewhere out there so if anyone knows a way of obtaining the route, I'd love to know. Thanks!

 

[Railwoodman]

Try here https://theswitchbacktrainz.com/

I like all the routes here and content is well done .

https://theswitchbacktrainz.com/#wildwood

Matt

 

[Little_Boy921]

Try here https://theswitchbacktrainz.com/

I like all the routes here and content is well done .

https://theswitchbacktrainz.com/#wildwood

Matt

I actually did stumble upon that route earlier this week, and just started playing it last night (half of the dependences were uninstalled so I had spend a couple of days installing them). Its actually pretty good but I felt that it was too short. I guess I should've looked up how far Wildwood was from Wildwood Junction before playing it because I honestly thought it would be longer. Not that its bad for what it is. Personally I prefer routes that are longer. That's why I was interested in finding Cape May County, since it covers the same area but at a larger scale. Unless that route no longer exists (as in, any websites holding said route are lost to time meaning the route can no longer be downloaded -_-)

 

[JCitron]

George Fisher made a much longer version based on the old TIGER maps and a Micro-DEM terrain. I can't remember if it's on the DLS or not, but I remember seeing it on a now defunct website - USLW. If those were the only source, then sadly the route is no longer.

 

[Forester1]

Actually, it is downloadable from Wayback here: http://uslw.net/content/downloads/files/ I have not installed it to check whether it works or not.

 

[Little_Boy921]

Actually, it is downloadable from Wayback here: http://uslw.net/content/downloads/files/ I have not installed it to check whether it works or not.

That actually worked! Thank you so much. Even though it has close to 50 missing assets (I dont know if those missing assets are important or just nothing), Im still glad to finally have it. I have a feeling it might be broken as hell but I wouldn't be too surprised since its over 10 years old. Nothing a good old face lift will do XD

It just hit me that the link is the same one that a user posted to one of my ongoing threads on this site. Cape May County was literally within reach this entire time �� Live and learn I guess

 

[Forester1]

Some of the missing assets may be there as well, it's hard to tell just going by KUIDs, but if you Google the KUIDs you may find old posts that lead you to them.

 

[rwk]

The USLW link just redirects to sketchy sites now. I tried Wayback, no dice. Is that files page now no longer working? At least I have important stuff like Reading GP30's and the Cape May County route.

 

[Forester1]

The USLW link just redirects to sketchy sites now.

Wow. Odd that the wayback has gotten corrupted. I suppose nothing is uncorruptable. Thanks for the head's up.

 

[rwk]

Not Wayback, but the site directly. That url used to work a few years ago. On wayback the url takes you to the homepage of the old USLW site.

 

[Forester1]

Ah, I thought the wayback was actually a stored point in time archive of the site, so should not be corruptable.

 

[rwk]

I found a working link on some Trainz site's discord. https://web.archive.org/web/20120705231253/http://uslw.net/content/downloads/files/ There doesn't seem to be a download for gfisher's I think Lamoille Valley (Vermont) route. Just a VT NH loop route. I think I have it in Trainz 12, and a version where I merged DEM to it of the rest of the line. I'm only using 22PE SP5 now, and only going back to 12, TANE and 19 to grab files to import into 22. I found an Alco RS type diesel on a site that looks similar to the ones Lamoille Valley had, I could reskin it, and I can skin/reletter some Lackawanna MU open window coaches from K&L Trainz. I never visited the railroad in real life, or entered Vermont. It's defunct now, and it's a rail trail. I'm from eastern PA. I have most of George's NJ short line routes as well in 12, like Morristown & Erie, the fictional Picatinny & Mt. Hope, and some other one I forget the name of. I'm surprised these great routes were just lost and not migrated over to JR. Some of George's trackside content is lost as well, except for what is archived at the link above.

 

[Forester1]

DOH! Now I see that my original post linked the original site even though I said it was the wayback. I must have been distracted or something. Thanks for the correct link.