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Brookley Industrial Complex/C&W Carolina R.R. Port Royal Branch merged
Good Evening Folks,
I wanted to post this start of the morning but it was not to be, so here I'm am and here we go with 2 Route merge mania!
Author David Akridge Notes for The Brookley Industrial Complex is small route that is very loosely based on Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile Alabama. There are (7) Seven industries that are across the mainline from the Gulf Coast Railroad Yard. GCR is a fictional railroad serving the deep south. Check my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/trainzsessions/ for more information about session releases and updates for this route. All assets are on the DLS with the exception of the High Detail Track asset from jointedrail.com in their freeware section.
C&WC RR Port Royal Branch......Notes below.
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Author "dericm" Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Port Royal Branch
THIS IS AN UNFINISHED VERSION... 98% complete. This will be updated as it is completed.
C&WC Port Royal Branch from Yemassee to Port Royal, SC. This route includes MCAS Beaufort and its trackage from my personal memories and photos.
This was part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, then Seaboard Coast Line up until SCL was merged into the Seaboard Systems and then CSX.
This line is now abandoned and the Port Royal Railroad CO was the last to operate it. It ceased operations in mid 2000s. Custom rolling stock and content for the routs is on the DLS for Port Royal Railroad and CW&C. ACL, SCL, SBD, Amtrak, and CSX operated on this route.
This represents an accurate and detailed route from SCL /ACL track charts from the 1960s, 1970s, and from Google Earth. No DEM was used. All elevations and track locations were done accurately with GE and topographic maps.
This original route for the C&WC ran from Augusta to Port Royal, SC. It was an important shipping artery for getting goods to port in South Carolina. It's demise was a declining industry base, better ports elsewhere, and poor economic times for a short line with little or no traffic with in its 25 miles.
I have added several other free lanced industry that were not on this route to add traffic to it:
Gravel Pit
Power Plant
Lumber Yard
Freight Houses
Factories
Cotton Gin
Fertilizer Co.
Hope you enjoy it.
You will need all of Jointed Rail's freeware route dependencies, Pofig trees, SARXT signals, JR track from their site, and many other DLS content.
Support will be available on the Auran Trainz Forums.
Thanks to all the many content creators who made this route possible and a few beta testers too. With out the content this route would be nothing.
Dan.
We are going into the second part of the Merge as we start on night run with weather system coming in. This is the new mainline connection between the 2 Routes and we have put together a nice JUNK Train with all different types of loads.
Rain hasn't started so will see how we do tonight, our speed is restricted due to this mainline being new, and some possible settling of the road bed from Rain and or local flooding in some of the valleys.
From one Route to the other, we use a nice wide loop around the lower mainlines of the Port Royal Branch later on merging into the North Main lines.
I borrowed a lease Caboose, since I really don't know what the proper livery is for Port Royal yet, I need to check it out and see what power they used?
Inside our leased C&O we head around the final curve before our new crossover Rail Bridge.
We have one mid signal between the mainline connection and it shows clear as we do 35MPH........
We have 2 mainlines coming out of Port Royal,, what I did was since one of them was to Portal, I snatched a connection the other one, giving us a nice high speed transfer onto Port Royal Tracks. And it looks like the dispatchers have us lined up and we did skip a beat as we merge into the one of the Mains. Purty dark out here, in the middle of the country, no street lights, but our Loco has a strong light on it.. We just slowed and wanted to make sure everything was lined OK, since this is our first run between the new partnership
OK, we're on Port Royal Property now, and we have taken a secondary main, as we approach a Sorting yard.
Nice lake to our right, as we pass a Coal Transfer and load unit.
Looks like the rain hasn't hit yet, good for us, as we learn our new Route.
I added the Brookley Complex to this section of the Route, and I think it will work out terrific, the only thing I'm doing now, is removing some trees due to my GPU restrictions I always face, so far, so good.
Both of these routes are really great to play on, and I haven't run much of either routes yet, so will see what develops as I explore the Routes.
Thank you for coming by..........
Good Evening Folks,
I wanted to post this start of the morning but it was not to be, so here I'm am and here we go with 2 Route merge mania!
Author David Akridge Notes for The Brookley Industrial Complex is small route that is very loosely based on Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile Alabama. There are (7) Seven industries that are across the mainline from the Gulf Coast Railroad Yard. GCR is a fictional railroad serving the deep south. Check my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/trainzsessions/ for more information about session releases and updates for this route. All assets are on the DLS with the exception of the High Detail Track asset from jointedrail.com in their freeware section.
C&WC RR Port Royal Branch......Notes below.
==========================================================
Author "dericm" Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Port Royal Branch
THIS IS AN UNFINISHED VERSION... 98% complete. This will be updated as it is completed.
C&WC Port Royal Branch from Yemassee to Port Royal, SC. This route includes MCAS Beaufort and its trackage from my personal memories and photos.
This was part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, then Seaboard Coast Line up until SCL was merged into the Seaboard Systems and then CSX.
This line is now abandoned and the Port Royal Railroad CO was the last to operate it. It ceased operations in mid 2000s. Custom rolling stock and content for the routs is on the DLS for Port Royal Railroad and CW&C. ACL, SCL, SBD, Amtrak, and CSX operated on this route.
This represents an accurate and detailed route from SCL /ACL track charts from the 1960s, 1970s, and from Google Earth. No DEM was used. All elevations and track locations were done accurately with GE and topographic maps.
This original route for the C&WC ran from Augusta to Port Royal, SC. It was an important shipping artery for getting goods to port in South Carolina. It's demise was a declining industry base, better ports elsewhere, and poor economic times for a short line with little or no traffic with in its 25 miles.
I have added several other free lanced industry that were not on this route to add traffic to it:
Gravel Pit
Power Plant
Lumber Yard
Freight Houses
Factories
Cotton Gin
Fertilizer Co.
Hope you enjoy it.
You will need all of Jointed Rail's freeware route dependencies, Pofig trees, SARXT signals, JR track from their site, and many other DLS content.
Support will be available on the Auran Trainz Forums.
Thanks to all the many content creators who made this route possible and a few beta testers too. With out the content this route would be nothing.
Dan.
We are going into the second part of the Merge as we start on night run with weather system coming in. This is the new mainline connection between the 2 Routes and we have put together a nice JUNK Train with all different types of loads.
Rain hasn't started so will see how we do tonight, our speed is restricted due to this mainline being new, and some possible settling of the road bed from Rain and or local flooding in some of the valleys.
From one Route to the other, we use a nice wide loop around the lower mainlines of the Port Royal Branch later on merging into the North Main lines.
I borrowed a lease Caboose, since I really don't know what the proper livery is for Port Royal yet, I need to check it out and see what power they used?
Inside our leased C&O we head around the final curve before our new crossover Rail Bridge.
We have one mid signal between the mainline connection and it shows clear as we do 35MPH........
We have 2 mainlines coming out of Port Royal,, what I did was since one of them was to Portal, I snatched a connection the other one, giving us a nice high speed transfer onto Port Royal Tracks. And it looks like the dispatchers have us lined up and we did skip a beat as we merge into the one of the Mains. Purty dark out here, in the middle of the country, no street lights, but our Loco has a strong light on it.. We just slowed and wanted to make sure everything was lined OK, since this is our first run between the new partnership
OK, we're on Port Royal Property now, and we have taken a secondary main, as we approach a Sorting yard.
Nice lake to our right, as we pass a Coal Transfer and load unit.
Looks like the rain hasn't hit yet, good for us, as we learn our new Route.
I added the Brookley Complex to this section of the Route, and I think it will work out terrific, the only thing I'm doing now, is removing some trees due to my GPU restrictions I always face, so far, so good.
Both of these routes are really great to play on, and I haven't run much of either routes yet, so will see what develops as I explore the Routes.
Thank you for coming by..........
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