The Siskiyou Line

[gtrtroger]

Here here..... looks fabulous BoostedFridge....

[ebarruse]

Awesome and awesome and awesome again! Just as all the others said, Beautiful work!

[VITORMARQUES]

This work "makes your mouth water," as we say in Portugal when we are waiting for something fabulous ...

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

Amazing work there Boosted!

[PNWR1854]

Fantastic work! Not to be a nag, but could I be one of the testers?

[georgian22]

Words are not needed. Your pictures say it all! WELL MODELED!

[buzz456]

Fantastic work! Not to be a nag, but could I be one of the testers?

You are being a nag.

[PNWR1854]

How did I know someone would say that

[buzz456]

How did I know someone would say that

Because it's true.

[Ericmopar]

You never know unless you ask.

Looks great like always Boosted.

[RudiJaeger]

I'm really looking forward to this one; some truly beautiful scenery in those previews. Thanks for all the work you are doing

[BoostedFridge]

I've had some really productive nights this week working on the route. Below are a few views of completed scenery along the middle 'tier' of the track climbing out of the Sacramento River Canyon.

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Final scenery is done up to the start of Sawmill Curve; the less famous of the two loops on this line. That should be finished sometime this weekend.

Below is about 1/4 way up the long siding at Mott at the top of the canyon. I have roughed in basic scenery this far. From here to Black Butte the terrain is more rolling and should require much less adjustment. Hopefully the pace of scenery progress speeds up from here!

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[PNWR1854]

Fantastic! Excited to get some tunnel motors rollin' on this route! And Caddilacs too!

[BoostedFridge]

I had really planned on getting some sleep last night, but I got in the zone working on the route. On the plus side, lots of progress was made.


The horseshoe in the foreground is 'Sawmill Curve', the slightly wider counterpoint to the Cantara Loop at the bottom of the canyon. Half of the loop is on a rock fill embankment, and half is through a shallow cutting. Adjusting the floor of the cutting to prevent floating track, or jagged angles on the terrain was an absolute nightmare. However, its done now and all that is left to do is add the 'grassets' at trackside, a few 2d trees, and the 3d foliage closest to the right of way.

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I finished up some of the last detail assets in the middle tier of the canyon , including this slide fence at MP330. GreatNortherner's telephone pole models filled in nicely in place of an actual slide fence!

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What started as a test to see which scenery and texture combination best matched the real terrain, turned into a quarter mile of almost finished scenery. Below is the crossing at Mott Road that I roughed in last weekend. The long straightaways along the sidings of Mott and Azalea are a very welcome relief from the slow placement of scenery in the canyon below. Placing 50 meter grass sections feels like a reward compared to the tiny shrunk assets I have had to use for the past several months!

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I took a test run during the week to break up the monotony of scenery work, and to try out Mainelines newest boxcar. They cars are right at home in the shadow of Mount Shasta, which dominates the skyline for miles around. This is the former station site at 'Pioneer' California, milepost 335. I have only placed a few loft assets here to date, but hope to have completed scenery to here within a few weeks.

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[PNWR1854]

AWESOME! I am very exited for this. Note to self: Buy the RWA Lakeside route so I can enjoy this route when its done. How much percentage of the route do you think is done? (Buzz456 please don't call me a nag.)