Good Day all,
It has been a busy 2 weeks, between spring cleaning overgrowth in my yard, getting Taxes ready, and then there is Trainz, I'm working on a marvelous Route for Javier, AKA fant_autentico Asset n Route maker, has allowed me to assist him in enlarging his Route, essentially we are doing an end to end merge of same route with buffer length of several Tiles to allow for severe elevation changes....So this is cool project to work on, and it's coming along nicely, as a Route Merger this right my alley, so I am grateful that Javier has entrusted me to help him have a Route for more running room that will have some additional interesting features as we work together making something that he needed a little help with....
Now in addition to this, I came across 3 interesting Routes this week, and you know what happened next download the following and check them out, in this case all three routes are keepers, with one of them from way back in time....
Next we have Ozark Valley Railroad by Sir Dave Snow.....The Ozark Valley Railroad is a fictitious rail line, set in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri. This east-west route is approximately 80 miles (128.747 km) long. Most of the railway winds around the Ozark River, crossing the river and it's tributaries numerous times, and skirting the hills and bluffs. There are plenty of industries along the way, but none are interactive. Those who wish to add active industries are welcome to do so. There are three main switching yards, and several smaller switching yards to keep engineers busy. At each end are staging areas to allow for A.I. Trains to rest, instant-load/instant-unload, etc. as I do--- or you can add portals if you so desire. The main focus of the Ozark Valley Railroad is the scenery. Plenty of medium sized cities and small towns along the way, as well as farms and agriculture areas in the valleys. The main railroads who use the Ozarks include UP, BNSF, and short lines such as the Missouri & Northern Arkansas and Arkansas & Missouri.
This is one Route that you'll never be bored, it's 80 miles, twists n turns, and just one terrific route that I cant laud enough compliments on how well it is done.....Sir Dave Snow at his finest always....I will show more pictures on the next Msg.
Penbryn Railway NG24 by clam1952...The Penybryn Railway is a fictitious 2ft Narrow Gauge Railway located somewhere in Wales. This Route is an older one, but is truly a Gem, as is all of Clam's1952 Routes.
Looking out this Route below for Penybry Railway, keeping in mind this is small 24Ng Gauge Route, look how much map is here for this Route to run on, about close to or over 150 tiles used here, probably closer to 150 or more. This lots of Route to run on .....
Rolling hills of light green and wonderful ocean views to the right with nicely made but not over made Docking facilities you'd expect to see in a small fishing village..
This is a Session here, I haven't played it yet as I just downloaded this Route after reading a recommendation in one of our Threads this week....
Look at this masterful ships in the dock here, just what I am expecting to see here......Can't wait to play on this Route, and in 24NG gauge, I don't hardly run into this extensive of a Route in this Gauge, most of the time they are smaller renditions in the making.......
And now we slip over to another of my favorites, here is:
"Penzance to Cornnwall" and I'm running a morning Commuter line in the downtown area.......
Just looking at these slides, one can see the care and expertise put into making this one another Crowd Favorite to play with.....
Not overly crowded, but just what you'd expect to see. Great Track, well and I mean well Signaled too, Signaling is one of peeves, Dark Territory is ok in some spots, but when you are running opposing trains, well, you can get into Deadly or near fatal head on Collisions if the Track orders are not up to date and accurate for current conditions and timetables.......Sure it is cheaper way to run the Railroad, but you better know where your trains are at all times...Or else people will die......That is no joke folks......
Were headed into the Country with speeds of 40-65 MPH thru the area, with good signaling as seen here, we have "Y" and this is an Advance Signal about 1.5 miles ahead of the Junction witch has 2 exits, one North, and one South, well be headed up North today......
Another authorized Station Stop here to pick up Morning Commuters headed into work......Beautiful blue and white partly cloudy Skies, so inviting here.....
Another view from the front and we have not only Commuter Tracks, dual Tracks, we also have run through Frieght Tracks on the Outside, terrific modeling here......How many times do you here dispatch upset with Freight delays due to Commuter and Passenger service clogging the Track time, I used to be around Dispatchers, and they would be Cranky when Frieght delays became an issue with Contract Passenger Service, only so many trains you can fit on a Track , anyway you slice the Cake.....
That'll due for tonight, I have to get back to making Javier's Mountains on new expansion Route....
Night all and a Blessed Good Friday and Easter Sunday to alll.......Night now.