NILES CANYON RAILWAY

[Bananarama]

The 3D trees are part of a bonus offering to those that purchase one of the scenery packs (Rural or World Landscapes).

I discovered that I still had a copy of freeware trees, which are now available in the RW freeware download area of my forum.

[Railroy19]

I just found this post and can't believe what great videos of this route.
I have been looking at some of them for about an hour now and enjoying them all.
Will this route be a payware route?
It looks fantastic and I for one would be very interested in it.

Thanks you for your time and work.

Bob

[Chacal]

@dleeboy this is a great route and I can't wait to try it.
I am sure it will be very popular.
Thanks for your work!

[dleeboy]

This is a freeware route and will be given to the people that ask for it. Please read my posts and you will see what routes you will need to run it. I am not going to put this route up in the route download section. Because I used too many payware routes and a lot of people do not have that many. So the people that do have the ones that they need just have to ask me for the route.
https://youtu.be/huxZcXHD9-Q
https://youtu.be/_umq87jKVfU

[dleeboy]

Here is a complete list of what everyone will need for this route.

NILES CANYON RAILWAY ROUTE

ASSET LIST

PAYWARE

3dTrains assets ATSF-SP Scale Rail
Scale Roads
Rural Landscapes
World Landscapes
3d Trees Pack with Bonus 3d trees

G-Trax Routes DSNG,Portland and Steven's Pass

RSC Routes
Donner Pass
Marias Pass
Pacific Surfliner
Penn Coal
Sherman Hill

And Construction Scenery Pack in the Market place. I also use the Decal pack but it looks
like it was removed. I only used it on two assets in Niles.

FREEWARE ASSETS

I have Packaged these up in two RWP files along
with separate SMMDIGITAL assets.
You will need the Recap assets that are available at RailWorks America.

The main route is in a RWP file also in that RWP is the Route
My Asset folder and Sad Assets witch are important because
I use his Terrain for the Route.

Here are the Specs on my Computer
ASUS Desktop PC G10AC Series Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 32 GB
Operating System Windows 64bit. GeForce GTX 760 ( 192 bit) Video Card.

I had only 8GBs in this system when I started this route and it ran fine with some stuttering.
But I upgraded to 32GBs and I have no Stuttering now.

This is a scenic Route I have tried to replicate the Real Niles Canyon Railroad located
in Fremont California.

I plan on extending the route to the end of the line of the route but not for a while
I need to take a break from Route making.

On the 3dTrain assets I use his Pay ware versions they give more detail but he offer
Lower quality freeware versions.

[dleeboy]

This route is still in the testing stage. I am waiting for my tester to get back to me. I am pretty sure everything will test fine. Anyone that wants this route continue to PM me and when it is ready to go I will send it to the people that want it. Please look at the list of assets so everyone will know what they will need to run this route. I will finish this route to the end of the route some day just not for awhile. The route that everyone will be getting is as far as I planned on doing in the beginning. I was asked to extend this route to the End of the track so I will some day. Everyone is getting a bonus from what I had planned in the beginning. I put in the Niles Junction on the Union Pacific Side witch I did not plan at the start.

[dleeboy]

PapaXpress I love the pictures. I had the water level up to your pictures but someone said that the water was too high because of the drought so I lowered the level. Who ever gets this can raise or lower the level on there own. I am trying to do my best but I can't keep everyone happy.

[PapaXpress]

We are indeed in a drought. What you see happening is that water is let down from Calaveras reservoir and stopped by the dam at Nile or a mile further down. Then pumps take the water and put it into underground wells for later use by the city of Fremont.

[dleeboy]

Thanks so I can have it at either level that is great to here. Have you had a chance to try the route out even though you don't have all of the pay ware assets. I think you should at least get a feel of the route.

[Overshoe]

Being a compulsive collector, I have everything needed for the route and so it has installed perfectly. I've taken a couple preliminary runs and all looks good so far. Perhaps tomorrow, over the weekend for sure I'll be back with more comments and some screenshots.

It looks like lots of railroading potential.

[Overshoe]

A few screens featuring the Britkits Mogul and assorted rolling stock gathered from RWA.

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[PapaXpress]

One tiny-tiny problem with the steamer... it would have been Western Pacific

Back when UP owned SP for the first time they would have (if they did at all) run along the SP side of the canyon.

[Overshoe]

If its a tiny-tiny problem I guess we can let it slide for now, but thanks for the info. Being an East Coast guy, I am not all that familiar with the various and sundry heritage railroads on that side of the Mississippi. So how did you like the route?

What's good for the tender? Western Pacific in white letters?

Edit: I found a logo. Maybe I can make it work...

[Ericmopar]

One tiny-tiny problem with the steamer... it would have been Western Pacific

Back when UP owned SP for the first time they would have (if they did at all) run along the SP side of the canyon.

Negatory.
SP closed their side and started using the W.P. line via trackage rights during the 80s.
Then UP bought WP and started using the track through Niles Canyon, while maintaining the original trackage rights with SP.
Then UP merged with SP/Rio Grande and it didn't matter anymore, because they owned almost all track in the East Bay except for BART.
The exception would have been the former Santa Fe line into the Richmond yard.

[PapaXpress]

One tiny-tiny problem with the steamer... it would have been Western Pacific

Back when UP owned SP for the first time they would have (if they did at all) run along the SP side of the canyon.

Negatory.
SP closed their side and started using the W.P. line via trackage rights during the 80s.
Then UP bought WP and started using the track through Niles Canyon, while maintaining the original trackage rights with SP.
Then UP merged with SP/Rio Grande and it didn't matter anymore, because they owned almost all track in the East Bay except for BART.
The exception would have been the former Santa Fe line into the Richmond yard.

We are talking about the steam era, not the 80's, otherwise you are correct.

Also SF owned a small piece of trackage in Oakland. They connected with the old WP line, and then SP to get back to Richmond. Coming to more current times BNSF had rights on the old SP line from Nile junction down to the old Numi, now Tesla plant. That is all gone now as UP sold the right of way to BART for their Warm Springs extension (40 years in the making! ugh!). UP upgraded the old WP line which paralleled the SP line and has a sizable yard next to the Great Mall in Milpitas.

And for more current news UP is extending the yard at Oakland terminal. I've wanted to take pictures but none of my shots turn out. I can't imaging what they will use it for since it's right next to a small staging area which is almost always unused.

Anyway... back to Niles.