Railworks America

Being impressed with this loco, I decided to create scenario, based on some real evidence of railfanning on Horseshoe Curve

Bring 13,000 tons eastbound coal train from Johnston to Altoona, using power of 6 NS SD80MACs.

Cheat sheet

1. Pull the train up to the top of the hill, using all units. Do not exceed 40 MPH for this train. You'll run uphill on track 1 and occasionall on track 2.
2. Stop after Portage tunnel east portal, and disconnect helper units from rear end.
3. Run downhill, using dynamic brakes. Keep speed 20-21 MPH and watch for approach signals, as there is other train descending ahead of you.
4. Stop at Altoona near crew change point.
5. Profit!

Prototypical traffic and consists, inspired from Youtube railfanning clips, especially this one:


Required add-ons:
-Eyein's SD80MAC (payware): http://eyein12.blogspot.com/
-Horseshoe Curve (Steam DLC)
-Norfolk Southern Coal District (Steam DLC) - for assorted locos and cars
-SD70 V2 from Steam (Steam DLC) - for NS SD70-2

Why are you posting it in the forum instead of uploading it to the library?

I have problems with upload to file library:

(SD80MAC_KingOfTheHorseshoe.zip)
That is not a valid file type (application/zip) or file size too big!
[Unknown upload error]

Allowed file types: image/gif;image/jpeg;image/pjpeg;image/png;image/x-png;application/x-zip-compressed;application/octet-stream;application/x-rar-compressed
Max. file size: 953.67 MB

it is regular zip packed with 7zip program (.RWP inside), why it is not valid type?

If you are using Firefox from some domains it acts up trying to upload. I found that IE seems to work when other browsers don't work properly for uploading. No idea why that is.

Bob, I've uploaded to file library twice by accident - please discard first one (with spaces in file name), it doesn't have screens and readme.

scenario for Canadian Pacific SD9043MAC repaint and CMP route - soon to be in the file library (sent to forum admin)