Railworks America

Hi,

For over a year now, Bob Jones and I have been working together on a route project for Railworks: the Virtual New Haven Railroad (VNHRR). The route is based on the area around Springfield, Massachusetts, in the 1950s -- when that town was a major passenger and freight station of the B&A, B&M and NH railroads.

The idea behind the VNHRR dates back many years ago, when Bob started it as a route project for MSTS. Route building in MSTS did usually take quite long in comparison to RW, so this project was never completed. Similarly, I had been working on a Boston region route, again with a B&A - B&M - NH theme. When RailWorks came along and allowed to speed up route building by months if not years, we decided to pool our efforts into a single project, which we decided should be the New Haven Springfield Line.

The first stage of the route will be the NH mainline from Springfield, MA, to Windsor Locks, CT, including the Suffield Spur to Suffield and Bradley International Airport.

I'm attaching some screenshots from the most recent build of the route below. There are many more images and additional information on the small blog we have created for our project: http://vnhrr.blogspot.com/

Cheers!
Michael


Springfield's NH roundhouse and freight house


South End Bridge, Springfield


Thompsonville depot and the carpet factory


Thompsonville by night

Looks great. You have captured the feel of the area. The granite bridge foundations looks excellent.
They used lots of white granite in Springfield Ma.

Gentlemen,
From what I see, the work looks fantastic.
The New Haven has always been interesting and especially under electrification and all their electric locomotives.

Very Very Nice Work

Love those check rails in the bridge pic - that IS attention to details. The light and shadows within the engine shed are just stunning. Certainly looks like one to buy...

This is my dream come true. So glad to hear about this. Will be keeping a close eye on this one and grab it up as soon as it is ready.

Awesome work guys... Man, RW keeps picking up speed these days ! Credit card ready

Hi, thanks for all your kind comments!

It may still take us quite a while to complete that first segment of the route. Especially the Springfield area is still largely undeveloped, which is also why there weren't any screenshots of it.

Here's another preview of the work in progress:


Cheers,
Michael

Wow!
Looks awesome and I see that the Budd RDCs get an appropriate line to run on.

Very nice!

This is really coming along quite well, Michael. I'm delighted to see how this has continued to develop. At the rate you're going, we'll be on the verge of climbin into the pictures we were born too late to be able to take.

Looks brilliant. Amazing work.

Some more progress... this time it's all about the suburbs.

Some screenshots below. Three more are on the blog. http://vnhrr.blogspot.com/

Cheers,
Michael

'Burbs are looking great!

Michael,
Any new news on the NH?

Well, the post right above yours but one is of the work they've just been doing on the suburbs. That was posted as news yesterday.