HSM Co Transportation Piedmont Div.

[Csxgp38-2]

Thanks!

[Csxgp38-2]

Well, I'm working on the A Line too, so about 2 months tops. It uses all SMM stuff, some RG stuff (From Fort Kent), lots of HSC, and some default. Thanks!

[jpetersjr]

Tell me, how much would you like to see these on your route.

Downtown Buildings.jpg

If you would like a big city area.

[Csxgp38-2]

I could maybe use the smaller ones, but as I've shifted the focus more towards a rural setting, I would love some small vintage shop buildings for this route as for my A Line route. Those are very good models though.

[Csxgp38-2]

Working on a boxcar for the route:


Connors Creek:

This route has really taken a turn south, so it will be the Piedmont Division after all, sorry for the confusion ya'll. Just has started to morph into what I see in North Carolina. Small towns, farms, and railroads. Looks great in any era 1970s-present, so whether you're running the line's SW1200, a run-through high hood GP38-2, or even a CSX ES44DC, it all fits. Uses RG assets, meaning you need Colton and Northern or Fort Kent to Eagle Lake, Scalerail, Scaleroads, tons of HSC, some NEC, and every single asset Jerry (SMMDigital) has released. So if you don't have all that, get cracking, because a beta is soon to come at this rate.

[NDORFN]

I'm getting excited! I happen to have all those assests too. Could be the first freeware route I've got without milk bottles everywhere. I mean, ever'where.

[Csxgp38-2]

More progress:
Coming in to Connor's Creek:

Looking into town:

Looking into the station area:

Station:

A final look at downtown:

[gtw5812]

Very nice "Young Man"! I am a shortline engineer, and I love the "rural" routes.... When I was a kid..all I had was "two wooden blocks...a dial telephone and a string"! Keep up the good work, looking forward to it!

Best Regards,

Galen

[Csxgp38-2]

Thank you both for the comments! I finshed the transition from farms to town, for the transition back from town to farms and woods.

[Csxgp38-2]

Train orders.

[SCLALINE]

Nice Work

[Csxgp38-2]

Thank you Jason!
I added a large industry to the Connor's Creek area. Too late to post pics of it now. Tommorrow I'll work on the town's namesake, a small creek passing under the ROW. Jason, I think your culverts will come in handy. Forgot to mention ya'll, you will need all SCLALINE assets.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Very nice work indeed! One can just feel the that typical "Southern" and almost hear the famous southern drawl.

Love that flooded yard and scenes. Would make for some very interesting scenarios you know?
Imagine trying to rescue as much people, possessions, cattle, livestock using trains before darkness falls?
Or what about trying to pull as many cars or engines out of that shop before the water rises so high it shorts out your traction motors?

Us adults don't have the imagination to think up t'hese exciting 'contest' scenarios, but you kids still have!

Kudos to you, keep it up and don't let us old hoggers keep you off it!

[Csxgp38-2]

Thanks, I was going for that. And I have been thinking up some very interesting scenarios for ya'll to play with also, that's a really good idea with the flood!

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Actually, I had a silent laugh when I read: "I got bored so I flooded the place". Unfortunatly a lot of kids your age do exactly those kind of things "when they get bored" and we call it vandalism. Many do thing much worse, which is better kept out of this forum.

So afterwards I looked over your work and screenshots a little closer and I am impressed with the quality of your work and imagination.
I gather from reading these boards that model/virtual railroading is becoming an old men's hobby. Railroads in general are fading from view, considered obsolete and an overall nuisance. Yet the US was created by railroads and they are an integral part of the nations history and culture that must never be eradicated from the collective mind.
Therefor it is good to read to about some committed youths taking over, improving and enlivening our virtual world with their own ideas and realised ambitions.

Plus you seem to have mastered route building, asset creation, rolling stock repainting, scenario writing and making a coherent unity out of all this, which is quite a feat in itself.

Also it is refeshing to see a different view of the world through your younger eyes, with less political coloring. Let me explain since I am not from the US and have never been there, I gather those trailer parks and the people that live there are often considered unfavorable, but are a very essential part of the USA society and culture. Us "oldtimers" eliminate these parts from the political correct idyllic little perfect fantasy worlds we build on our computers, sort of recreating that "paradise lost".

You young people just show the world you (we) live in as she is, warts and all, which is quite refeshing if sometimes a little discomforting.

Keep up the good work and keep us posted on your progress, you already have quit a few followers.