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it's a good match for your wooden PRR clerestory coaches and steam engines with big oil lamps.
Water Street, Utica and the old Potters Cemetery....which is now a junky parking lot ..
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:wave: Like your work a lot,
:udrool: One of my things I like on a Route is interesting Waterways, and yours fits the bill, it looks very interesting with the Retaining wall, and how it meanders around the city, adds a lot of detail to an already great looking Route..........
May I en-quire as to the name of the Track you are using here......Really cool looking for the period in time........
Excellent work,nice to see another US 19th century route.Thanks, the two water ways shown are the old Erie canal, which originally ran through the Downtown, until the Barge Canal, a couple miles north of Utica replaced it in the early 1900's. What used to be the canal is now called Oriskany St.
The the river just to the north of the yard is the Mohawk, which has also been reverted away from the yard since. During the time period of this route, many trips went daily to a gravel pit, for the goal of filling in the swamp and that part of the river to enlarge the yard.
The track is called "Standard gauge sloppy track". If I could, I'd reskin it to more brown than red, but that content doesn't allow for it. What I like about it, is that there's no ballast and I can sink it in to the ground a little. There's no smooth transition from the other ballasted track and the "sloppy" track, unfortunately.
I'll see what I can do to fill some more of the gaps resulting from the lack of decent 19th century content we have for eastern U.S. railroads in Trainz, not including the Civil War content that's been here for a couple of years now. Something more fitting for the late 19th century in the northeastern US would be a famous train from that time such as the NYC 999 Empire State Express or period correct clerestory wood-sided passenger equipment and vintage spark-arresting locomotives such as the B&O's William Mason.
I think that this route could hold up really well into the 1890's and 1900's.
there used to be a civil war route based it think on the film" the general" and of course pencil is working on Virginia and Truckee. then there some very old ng routes , none prototypical.Thanks, I didn't know there was another one. I'd like to see it.