Sherman Hill Vintage

[Alpenfreight]

Hey All,

Wanted to share a few screenies of something I've been working on for quite some time now. It's set roughly in the 1950s, but is more of an approximation on most things. I haven't made any significant changes to track other than reducing the route back to one track from Hermosa to Laramie on the eastbound side. I have just wrapped up a lot of the big work on Cheyenne, take a look...

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Steam to Diesel transition era! Great work.

[ZekTheKid]

Very good! Will this be in the route collection?

[jalsina]

Oh my! I will like seeing this backdated Sherman Hill

[JohnS]

That looks great! My favorite era, the transition.

[jalsina]

An aerial view of Cheyenne:

[Alpenfreight]

An aerial view of Cheyenne:

Thanks for this! I was able to do a little updating ;)

[jalsina]

Where I got this one there were detailed views of the roundhouse and other installations around. There is something similar available for Laramie.
Google "Cheyenne railroad".

EDIT: That roundhouse in your scenery is looking very good!

[Alpenfreight]

Where I got this one there were detailed views of the roundhouse and other installations around. There is something similar available for Laramie.
Google "Cheyenne railroad".

EDIT: That roundhouse in your scenery is looking very good!

Thank you for the help! I checked out that website and unfortunately no overhead shots of Laramie. I've seen plenty of the coal towers and turntable but I still need to figure out how to place them in the yard

[jpetersjr]

I think the route looks good, only question is, where's the fifties trucks, every city had them back then, even some fifties semies as well.

[Alpenfreight]

I think the route looks good, only question is, where's the fifties trucks, every city had them back then, even some fifties semies as well.

I don't believe there are any assets for this unfortunately. I am making the route with Official addons only so that it can be shared more widely when completed. The only 50s trucks I know of come with the Lakeside route here

[Alpenfreight]

Did a bit more work on this last night. I played around with Searchlight signals for a few hours but can not get them to work for whatever reason. This is a bit discouraging because I think the colorlight signals look out of place. For now I've decided to keep working on the scenery and worry about that later.

I've made the route single track on the westbound line out of Laramie, and I've gotten from Cheyenne to the Dyno Nobel facility with scenery. I stopped there last night because I don't know what to do with it yet. Does anyone have any idea how big this facility would have been in the 50s? From my research it seems like it probably existed. I was thinking of keeping it pretty similar to what it is in the modern route, but just replacing the vehicles with vintage ones...

[Ericmopar]

There are some 50s vehicles with Horseshoe Curve.

[Alpenfreight]

There are some 50s vehicles with Horseshoe Curve.

Ah yes, I am using them quite extensively :)

I watched the Feather River preview last night and saw a few new vehicles from that who might fit as well!

[tbundy1982]

I know it's a stretch but I remember some of the British steam routes have a few British box trucks that are just about a dead-ringer for REA-style delivery trucks. I think the one I'm thinking of is either West Somerset Railway or Falmouth Branch. It might work in a pinch.

Good luck with your route modification. I'm looking forward to subscribing!

Tyler