First of all, BlakeDooley and jacksonbarno thank you very much for your compliments! Getting this kind of feedback is a great motivational tool to keep working on the route. Here's the lowdown on the route:
It was first inspired after seeing Brickbuilder711 (I think) doing a past-meets-present rendition of the FEC's Key West Extension, sort of a "what-if" scenario. It made me think of the Texas Central, which ran through my hometown and was a major local employer with all the accompanying shops, roundhouse, etc. So I decided to start on a layout that represented the TEXC had it expanded and survived into modern times. The original TEXC was purchased by the Katy in 1910 and never built beyond Rotan, Texas. On my route it continues northwest to an end-to-end connection with the old Crosbyton-South Plains Railway (later Santa Fe) at Crosbyton. Crosbyton is the end of the line with two portals for a continuation to Lubbock and points west. On the east end is Morgan, Texas, where the TEXC crossed the Santa Fe at grade. Here I have connections that go to portals for Waco, Temple, and Fort Worth.
Nine miles to the west of Morgan is my hometown, Walnut Springs. Here is where the TEXC has a mini-hump yard where it pre-blocks traffic for BNSF in Temple and Fort Worth and the UP at Waco as well as the primary locomotive terminal and general offices for the railroad. That being said, the main line of my route is 298 miles from Morgan to Crosbyton, with the Cross Plains branch included and adding an additional 40 miles. The traffic base can be pretty much anything, as the TEXC is a bridge carrier sort of like the Montana Rail Link. There will be a few industries, mostly agricultural. BNSF trains can freely use it as well, especially for loaded eastbound bulk commodity trains that require fewer locomotives here than the run over BNSF's parallel Lampasas Subdivision to the south due to the TEXC's slightly gentler eastbound grades.
So that's it in a nutshell, sorry if I was a little long-winded!
Cheers
Cody