Clinchfield Railroad route

[imnew]

No, but usual release day is Thursday, so fingers crossed for this week.

I echo crosstie

[crosstie]

Available now on Steam.

[imnew]

Available now on Steam.

Thanks for the heads up crosstie. Downloading now.

[ElphabaWS]

Release-date article and announcement: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-simulator/articles/article/the-clinchfield-cometh

[dr1980]

Looking forward to first impressions.

[buzz456]

Very early impressions: The people who put the scenery down had a very deft hand. It really looks nice. The grungy paint job on the F7 is just superb and somebody finally made a seriously nice horn for it. Unfortunately this route has a bout a zillion tunnels and when hooked to a consist the instrument and cab light do not work. I have only driven a tiny bit of the route so far but it looks like the Zombie apocalypse struck here. Not one person so far. Odd. More to come.

[buzz456]

Another oddity I just noticed is the wagons appear to all be generic. I wonder if that's on purpose for some strange DTG thinking or if something got left out?

[buzz456]

Got out of the scenario and set up the GP38-2 with a couple of the route cars to see if the coal loader was working (it does) and then went over to the F7. Now the instrument lights and cab light are working.

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[AlcoFan]

How nice, another little mountain route full of reused stock, for only $40. I guess the SD40 is technically a new model, but it reuses the old RSC SD40-2 cab view which besides looking awful is inaccurate. The "GP38" also uses a Dash 2 type cab interior. Here is the link to the manual for anyone curious. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/1230271/manuals/DTG_-_Clinchfield_Railroad_Elkhorn_-_St._Paul_Route_Add-On_-_Route_Manual_-_EN.pdf?t=1588856457

[crosstie]

Very early impressions: The people who put the scenery down had a very deft hand. It really looks nice. The grungy paint job on the F7 is just superb and somebody finally made a seriously nice horn for it. Unfortunately this route has a bout a zillion tunnels and when hooked to a consist the instrument and cab light do not work. I have only driven a tiny bit of the route so far but it looks like the Zombie apocalypse struck here. Not one person so far. Odd. More to come.

Yes, the lack of people, stray dogs etc. lineside or in the yards in freight routes has always felt odd to me. Used to it now. Of course it's entirely in keeping with the current zeitgeist.
Route looks great though, nice bit of rail history.

[Schnauzahpowahz]

Its a lovely route, but the stock is typical schmeg.

The skins are even low quality


Hoping sounds and patches are forthcoming from you technical geniuses.


Namely the sd40, holy crap its bad


Which also by the way. Doll arm signals!


And do the krellnut freight wagon sounds apply by default? I cdnt tell, not that astute

[buzz456]

I disagree when it comes to the F7. Haven't spent any time with other stuff yet. Like I said that's a great horn on the F finally. As far as the Krellnut sounds negative.

[Schnauzahpowahz]

Well darn. Guess swapping wagons are in order

F7 is the best of the bunch, but its odd they grabbed the horn from the sw1200 or GG1, i think

The gp7 comes close second, considering how old it is i think its drivable by default - it sports the grey well also

Currently researching other power that crisscrossed the line, i think Norfolk Western may have. Could slap some CSX on there as per modernism

[buzz456]

Just paste these into the Clinchfield\Audio\RailVehicles\Wagons folder.

Krellnut sounds for Clinchfield.zip

[crosstie]

I'm really liking this route. The scenery looks really well done, with nice attention to detail, lighting very good.
I agree the F7 is excellent and Buzz is spot on with the horn. (I had the same strange experience with the cab and dial lights, nothing first time, worked the second).
Like the weathering on the F and the Geep. The GP7 seems fine to me, haven't got to the SD40 yet.
All in all, first impression is a very nice job.