magickmaker
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I was looking at Trainz earlier, monkeying around with this idea and that idea while taking a break from a route I was building. At one point I found myself reminded of my first abortive attempts at model railroading. I don't have pictures of it, but I have memories. I'd like to share them and I'm debating building it into Trainz. Both in a HO style and in a "real scale" type.
My first route started with no name, but it was based around a very very tiny port. I didn't have a good understanding (even though this was high school) of how a rail to barge system worked, but I still tried. The route was an around the wall type that was set loosely in the early 1900's, around 1912 if I remember right. Trains started first at a small terminus, where they were pulled from a simple wooden barge that only held five or six cars, at best. There was a very small holding yard which consisted of four stub tracks, and then an engine terminal. Interestingly (and I dunno WHY I did this) there wasn't a turntable at this point in the line, but there was one later on where I had some room.
The line meandered on for a total track length of some thirty five feet, with a handful of stations and two or three sidings before reaching the other terminus. This terminus was actually built to look like the route had been under construction at one point, but it'd stopped for whatever reason. So, there were a handful of cranes, rails, bridge components, stone, and the second turntable. This area, called "Rail End" also had a small city with dirt streets, and a station. The second yard was here, with the suggestion that most of the boxcars were being loaded on a team track, and some going to the stores for the construction that was never completed.
There was a portion of catenary strung, but it never finished. Originally I'd intended to have the route be an interburban system, but after having the cats destroy my overhead wire more than once, I just made it look like the crews were slowly working on hanging wire, but as with the "Rail End" they'd not finished that part.
Rolling stock was short pre 1920 cars, (which we need on the DLS) with three locomotives. Two were aging 4-4-0's converted to burn coal, and a new 4-6-0 on lease from Southern.
The railroad's name was the "Coyote Central Pacific", named in the vein of all those roads in the early 20th century that had pacific in their name, but never neard the pacific ocean. Sadly, I only named it a few short months before I had to tear it down.
So, what about your first railroad? Do you have pics, or the story of its creation?
My first route started with no name, but it was based around a very very tiny port. I didn't have a good understanding (even though this was high school) of how a rail to barge system worked, but I still tried. The route was an around the wall type that was set loosely in the early 1900's, around 1912 if I remember right. Trains started first at a small terminus, where they were pulled from a simple wooden barge that only held five or six cars, at best. There was a very small holding yard which consisted of four stub tracks, and then an engine terminal. Interestingly (and I dunno WHY I did this) there wasn't a turntable at this point in the line, but there was one later on where I had some room.
The line meandered on for a total track length of some thirty five feet, with a handful of stations and two or three sidings before reaching the other terminus. This terminus was actually built to look like the route had been under construction at one point, but it'd stopped for whatever reason. So, there were a handful of cranes, rails, bridge components, stone, and the second turntable. This area, called "Rail End" also had a small city with dirt streets, and a station. The second yard was here, with the suggestion that most of the boxcars were being loaded on a team track, and some going to the stores for the construction that was never completed.
There was a portion of catenary strung, but it never finished. Originally I'd intended to have the route be an interburban system, but after having the cats destroy my overhead wire more than once, I just made it look like the crews were slowly working on hanging wire, but as with the "Rail End" they'd not finished that part.
Rolling stock was short pre 1920 cars, (which we need on the DLS) with three locomotives. Two were aging 4-4-0's converted to burn coal, and a new 4-6-0 on lease from Southern.
The railroad's name was the "Coyote Central Pacific", named in the vein of all those roads in the early 20th century that had pacific in their name, but never neard the pacific ocean. Sadly, I only named it a few short months before I had to tear it down.
So, what about your first railroad? Do you have pics, or the story of its creation?
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. But now I am better at planning stuff now.
