Announcing BNSF Stevens Pass

[buzz456]

Some MSTS included as well

BNSF 2081 the GP38-2 from MSTS is a permanently assigned engine over here for the run to paine field.

Huh? GP38's are from where?

[jmslakings]

Some MSTS included as well

BNSF 2081 the GP38-2 from MSTS is a permanently assigned engine over here for the run to paine field.

Huh? GP38's are from where?

That's cool, I haven't seen 4723 in a while. Wonder where its at? Buzz. He is talking about a GP38 that was featured in MSTS update 1.2 a while back, its on Stevens Pass now.

[raptorengineer]

sweet work so far. will there be mix of thouse bnsf signals and searchlights signals along the route? and also I gussing some people will be making same activitys as msts steven pass. I really like that one mission call Canadian imports, that was fun mission. so far look amazing I can't wait to see what the cascade tunnel going to look. it was never lighted right. ya only tunnel that had light was mount McDonald tunnel in canada.

[BillS]

Always enjoy Jim Friedland's scenarios and locos/rolling stock repaints, almost everything Michael Stephan comes out with, and the incredible work that Rick Grout did producing the Portland Terminal route. I would say a Winning Combination! Looking forward to this Route!

BillS

[ricksan]

The Stevens Pass route isn't just about high-priority passenger and freight trains. Let's follow the Wenatchee Local . It has just left Appleyard in South Wenatchee, having picked up a set of four woodchip cars and three reefers, all of them empties.

The King Columbia is on our right as the train passes beneath the Sellars bridge.



The boundary between the Columbia River Subdivision and the Scenic Subdivision is right here at the end of Wenatchee platform. (Warehouse building by Rich Chargin.)



The first stop is at Cashmere. The reefers have just been dropped off at those cold-storage fruit warehouses.



This is definitely orchard country!



There are three tunnels between the Chumstick and Tumwater valleys. Swede Tunnel, the in-between one, is the shortest.



The empty woodchip cars are being set out here at the mill in Winton. The engines will head back to Appleyard, making a few pickups along the way including these loaded woodchip cars.

[thecanadianrail]

stop teasing me!

LOL jk, please keep them coming, love how you explain every picture.

[pschlik]

Wow! It seems like the only limitations on this route will be the game's limitations (which are sometimes quite bothersome).

[fecrails]

This route looks just amazing!
Thanks for posting the updates!

[raptorengineer]

sweet will there be any loading and unloading buildings on this route?

[Rbsanford]

No more news? Nothing?

[The_Garbear]

Be patient man, it's coming.

[GreatNortherner]

Thanks!

No worries please, we haven't stopped building the route.

will there be any loading and unloading buildings on this route?

Yes, there will be a few freight transfer points. Though being mainly a mountain pass route, industries are located mostly on the west end, around Everett, with some more in Wenatchee and only a few along the mainline.

Michael

[raptorengineer]

sweet. what about stuff from Portland termainal like streetlights and buildings and trafficlights etc.. will they be in this route as well.

[ricksan]

No, this isn't a quiz. This is obviously a detector assembly of some sort, but we don't know what it's for. We have dragging-equipment detectors, hot-spot detectors and two kinds of automatic equipment identification devices, all of them at the locations where they are found on the prototype railroad. But not this...at least not yet. The latest employee timetable we have (2006) tells us there's a trackside warning detector here, which usually just means it could be any type of defect detector, but this was constructed within the last couple of years. At first glance I thought that the upper, horizontal detector heads, being up so high (don't ask me how high), have something to do with stack trains. But if that were so, why wouldn't there also be a set of detectors for the lower stacks, or for that matter single stacks? And what about the two vertical detectors on the gantry (which seem to "look" down along the outer surfaces of a train), and those two shotgun-style detectors at wheel level? Are they looking for loose parts that extend beyond any edges of a railcar? Why? and why, on a 120+ mile route, only at this location?

[thecanadianrail]

No, this isn't a quiz. This is obviously a detector assembly of some sort, but we don't know what it's for. We have dragging-equipment detectors, hot-spot detectors and two kinds of automatic equipment identification devices, all of them at the locations where they are found on the prototype railroad. But not this...at least not yet. The latest employee timetable we have (2006) tells us there's a trackside warning detector here, which usually just means it could be any type of defect detector, but this was constructed within the last couple of years. At first glance I thought that the upper, horizontal detector heads, being up so high (don't ask me how high), have something to do with stack trains. But if that were so, why wouldn't there also be a set of detectors for the lower stacks, or for that matter single stacks? And what about the two vertical detectors on the gantry (which seem to "look" down along the outer surfaces of a train), and those two shotgun-style detectors at wheel level? Are they looking for loose parts that extend beyond any edges of a railcar? Why? and why, on a 120+ mile route, only at this location?

This looks to be an excess height and width detector to detect any loads that could pose problems with things down the line. Why you ask, well last thing you want is your train getting stuck in a tunnel because a load on a flatcar was too wide and derailed your train or something similar. why only once that you can find? well I have no idea, it would make more sense to have one at least on each end.