Finally-I got my mojo workin! After 3 Weeks I got 2 hours in on the route AND I got pictures.
I am also dying to rant. But first, the Wednesday Route Update (tm). Cruetz, I have to end where I am at the edge of the Hackensack Wetlands and not go to Arlington. We got a pile of work in, lots of upgrades and were setup to do the Booton and Greenwood Lake Branch. In all honesty, I want to tackle Patterson. Its the holy grail of complexity and its crazy with consignees AND another yard at Patterson. It will take time, It will be a pain, but it will be unbelievably amazing. But first, I gotta go back to Walden and finish it.
In my time in Secaucus and Kearny, a lot of the old memories were a-flowing. Of a grittier time and place of course. I also notice that Croxton still is an FPS sucking monster and that nut has to be cracked if were going to originate and terminate trains there. Its a shame to have loaded so much into that place and not be able to run for 30 plus minutes before one runs out of memory. I will get that sorted somehow. But really, Croxton just kicks butt with all that is going on there.
Lets do some pictures: This is Kearny, NJ and a modern take on scenery with the old double track still running.
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These pictures capture what I like about New Jersey and building this route - Just look at all the stuff going on in these images. If your were driving down Route 7, most of it you wouldn't even bother to think about. But when its presented in game you notice how complex the real work really is … so rich with the happenings of nature and man - its impossible NOT to notice. I like it and I like Jersey for all that goes on there. The smell - no so much.
Rant time:
Like a knuckle head I lurk in forums looking for talk about the Bergen. You know, to know what you guys really think. Trust me - Its mostly very positive. Every once in a while - I get bent out shape. its 3 things. 1. are the crashes to desktop that does not get reported to me and contains NO detail for me to discern the root cause. 2. People who don't get ** Munich and complain about missing assets. and 3. Port Jervis.
The Port Jervis one hurts - because what is the point of the New York Division with out Port? (from my side) The other side is the crew that wants to ride for 89 miles on a Metro North run without even throwing me a bone for doing 70 miles in 4 years. The other thing is that I built this thing as a test to see if DTG or someone would get the idea that it would be a good concept to get some wicked cool railroad history on a functioning virtual railroad centered around ….
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Ya know DLC, legitimacy, recognition for and unsung railroad. Here at RWA - you guys are amazing, your with me, and you understand where I am coming from. I appreciate that so much.
So you want Port Jervis? Help me get a developer or DTG onboard so we can build a REAL RAILROAD, not some state subsidized commuter rail over the shell of a once great Class 1 railroad. (this is the rant part
) What do I got to do to get this rolling/
This leads me to the super secret spy squirrel project. Let me tell you, I am total.. (let me yell here) TOTALLY committed to bring you a project that will transport history, so rich, so detailed and so incredible, you will feel it. YOU will experience what I have experienced - just like the Bergen itself - but better! I have committed hundreds of hours of research and part of my personal fortune to make this happen (about the cost of a 2 day vacation for 4 to Strasburg, PA with meals and hotel). And it will come. And you will come, not really knowing why...
Oh heck - here is the darn quote from the film Field of Dreams.
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
I think this darn railroad is like what the character, Terrance Mann, says above. I really do.
I want to bring it back for one more ride - you know?
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by glenn68 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:21 pm 
