The Next North American Route

[Rich_S]

You know guy's. We have all of this CN content with no Canadian route. I think its time for RSC to try something from Canada.

We do have a Canadian route, The Fraser and Cariboo route from Milepost Simulations. As for other Canadian routes, how about the "Kicking Horse Pass" route from Field through the spiral tunnels to Banff? Another famous route is the CNO&TP "Rat Hole" route, which I'd like to see done in the Southern Railway era?

[BNSFdude]

Duluth Missabe and Iron Range has been suggested to a few people internally. Probably wont happen though.

[ex-railwayman]

You know guy's. We have all of this CN content with no Canadian route. I think its time for RSC to try something from Canada.

Absolutely spot on Sir, very well said, I vote for a route utilising CP, CN and BCol rolling stock, why can't we have it all......

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

[BlueLight]

If there are only 4 tools in the box why not create the BNSF route from Kansas City north along the Missouri River to St. Joseph or to the yard at Lincoln Ne.

[Antwerp]

CN Holly Subdivision? We have no CN Routes. Although I do agree with the NS Chicago Line but I would prefer Toledo, Ohio to Elkhart, Indiana.
Maybe the CSX Saginaw Subdivision.

I also want to add maybe the DT&I in the late 70's or the AA in the 70's.

I like the way you think.

[UP3985]

How abouNorth Platte NEt Bailey Yard & the UP mainlines east and west of North Platte NE? I know it's not much for scenery, and it would be more of a long haul route, but some switching and shunting would be able to be done at the numerous elevators and industrial sidings in various small towns alongthe way. plus it's my personal fav that I've riden along on UP 844, and I really want to be able to bring a train into Cheyenne from the east after a long haul across the prarie. (I know there's already plenty of UP, but this would give good reason to correct the paint and model errors on the SH ES44)

BUT for me, any more UP routes are

N&W steam era route would make a nice addition too (I'm a westerner, but that 611 makes me )

[1225fan5358]

How abouNorth Platte NEt Bailey Yard & the UP mainlines east and west of North Platte NE? I know it's not much for scenery, and it would be more of a long haul route, but some switching and shunting would be able to be done at the numerous elevators and industrial sidings in various small towns alongthe way. plus it's my personal fav that I've riden along on UP 844, and I really want to be able to bring a train into Cheyenne from the east after a long haul across the prarie. (I know there's already plenty of UP, but this would give good reason to correct the paint and model errors on the SH ES44)

BUT for me, any more UP routes are

N&W steam era route would make a nice addition too (I'm a westerner, but that 611 makes me )

Because 300+ tracks filled mostly with cars wont lag just a little bit?

[Bananarama]

How abouNorth Platte NEt Bailey Yard & the UP mainlines east and west of North Platte NE?

I believe ToriPony at one point was experimenting with this.

[thecanadianrail]

As for other Canadian routes, how about the "Kicking Horse Pass" route from Field through the spiral tunnels to Banff?

this is currently being built by a member here at RWA, bigroyboyski to be specific

[NS9030]

I also want to add maybe the DT&I in the late 70's or the AA in the 70's.

I like the way you think.

Same to you!

[jpetersjr]

Why not New York City in 1940, back when the New York Central ruled the northern rails.

[CanadianSteam]

Personally I'd like to see a Canadian route too, obviously seeing as I'm on this side of the border

Any ways, I'd say if the Kicking Horse Pass is already being made, it would be very cool to see something like the Fraser or Thompson River canyon routes. Possibly even the CPR's Shuswap Sub. If not a line in BC maybe something from Quebec or Ontario, like the CNR Kingston Sub or the CPR Winchester Sub.

Now of course the two possibilities I mentioned from the East I'm partial to because that's my area I have to say though, in all seriousness, both routes go through some beautiful countryside at serious track speed with serious tonnage

[Toripony]

A long time ago I laid out Bailey Yard and about 40 miles of mainline... just tracks, nothing else, not even switches or signals. Not sure the sheep jump even has a bridge. Spent a LOT of time fiddling with gradients in the hump yards. I think the conclusion was it's a gigantic empty space and if you tried to populate it, play slowed to a crawl. I think it might take a supercomputer to make it look really alive. Just editing it became impossible as it grew. The other issue waswith the size of the tracks.bin... at that time no one was having any luck running a file bigger than 4MB, though I expect that "ceiling" is higher now. It's an awful lotta track! (1000 miles???)

[buzz456]

Just my opinion but I think these large yards are the most unrealistic thing I have on any route since you can't really populate them even with low poly cars along with taking forever if you're trying to make your own scenario so what's the point. It's a lot more interesting if you like switching in and around industries than pushing cars around in a huge yard. Just my thoughts.

[Toripony]

More challenging, too! Just try spotting grain cars on the loaders at Ronceverte's feed stores, lol.