The Next North American Route

[Haystack]

Whatever the next route is, I just hope it's modern day and has freight and Amtrak service.

[NJTransit4Lyfe]

Whatever the next route is, I just hope it's modern day and has freight and Amtrak service.

Amtrak's Empire Corridor anyone? That uses Freight, Metro-North, and Amtrak. I guess the farthest they could have it go is Albany, but I think someone suggested that already.

[Haystack]

Seattle to Portland, or maybe something in Virginia or West Virginia.

[fecrails]

My vote will have to be the FEC. South Florida would be a good section to model. In fact, how about the rails of South Florida? From West Palm Beach to Miami the CSX and the FEC run parallel in most places only being a mile or so apart. The CSX has Tri-Rail, Amtrack and freight and the FEC serves three ports in a sixty mile run and will soon have passenger service again too. If RSC really wants to do something challenging and different, how about the FEC during the Guilded Age of Florida's swanky resorts including Flagler's Key West Extension?

[glenn68]

DM&IR is a good suggestion, however, I would love to see the Bessemer and Lake Erie to include all the rolling stock. Noting like heavy tonnage, pulled by SD9's, SD18's and SD38-2's. Lots of potential.
Fallen flag, The Pittsburgh and lake Erie. Yes at one time a stab at it was done but I felt too many people were involved and a specific era should have been used.

Glenn

[eyein12]

Seattle to Portland, or maybe something in Virginia or West Virginia.

There already is a seattle route just not to portland. it will be to tacoma here in a few short months.

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[UP3985]

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???)

You wouldn't happen to still have a copy of it would you? If possible I would like to mess with it some. I've had alot of experiences in that yard a

[BlueLight]

We have the west covered. We have some of the east covered. What we do not have is a true Midwest route. Now we have CN engines but little in the way of rolling stock. RSC could develop a CN route, I mean come on! They can choose anywhere between New Orleans and Winnipeg.

[BNSFdude]

We have the west covered. We have some of the east covered. What we do not have is a true Midwest route. Now we have CN engines but little in the way of rolling stock. RSC could develop a CN route, I mean come on! They can choose anywhere between New Orleans and Winnipeg.

I'm very bitter with CN. I guess CN works with a DMIR route though.

I hate CN for that....

[buzz456]

We have the west covered. We have some of the east covered. What we do not have is a true Midwest route. Now we have CN engines but little in the way of rolling stock. RSC could develop a CN route, I mean come on! They can choose anywhere between New Orleans and Winnipeg.

I'm very bitter with CN. I guess CN works with a DMIR route though.

I hate CN for that....

Bitter?

[BNSFdude]

Extremely. They came in and destroyed anything Missabe. Yet the BLE remains pretty untouched.

[The_Garbear]

There's still a fair amount of stock still in DMIR livery, isn't there? I haven't been out to Duluth in a while but there are lots of very recent pictures on railpics of brown SD40-3s. I agree it's a shame though.

[NS9030]

There's still a fair amount of stock still in DMIR livery, isn't there? I haven't been out to Duluth in a while but there are lots of very recent pictures on railpics of brown SD40-3s. I agree it's a shame though.

There are a few SD38's in DM&IR paint at NREX's Silvis and Dixmoor, Illinois storage areas.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1189257

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1202773

And one in B&LE
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1185284

[thecanadianrail]

We have the west covered. We have some of the east covered. What we do not have is a true Midwest route. Now we have CN engines but little in the way of rolling stock. RSC could develop a CN route, I mean come on! They can choose anywhere between New Orleans and Winnipeg.

I'm very bitter with CN. I guess CN works with a DMIR route though.

I hate CN for that....

well don't worry lol, eventually CN is going to take another stab at BNSF and then what are you going to do?!?! JK

[5292nate]

Is anything in the works? We have tons of suggestions, but no one saying if there even is ANYTHING being worked on as of now.