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Unread postby RonKStevens » Sun Jul 14, 2013 9:55 am

So all of the attention last week concerning the crash in Quebec, I started thinking about the San Bernardino crash and pipeline explosion from 1989. Rereading articles about this incident, it stuck me that I have the Cajon pass content for Railworks, and look up the section of track where the accident occurred. While thinking about trying to drive a similar consist down that track, and either succeeding, or having a similar fate to what happened in reality, I discovered that the section of track ends at a portal about a mile or so before where the train derailed.
Even though I mean no disrespect for those that lost their lives in that tragedy, I still feel upset that this historical section of track was not included.
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Re: Cajon Pass missing section

Unread postby dejoh » Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:07 am

There were many locations that were left out of this route. Unbelievable that they omitted the great switching possibilities at the Cargill grain elevators.
Other than that, its one of my favorites. !!*ok*!!
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Re: Cajon Pass missing section

Unread postby Bananarama » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:44 am

RonKStevens wrote:Even though I mean no disrespect for those that lost their lives in that tragedy, I still feel upset that this historical section of track was not included.

I would suspect you could lay a mile of track easily enough, but what would be the point other than saying "those pixels on my screen are were x-train crashed and x-number of people died"? If you were to lay track all the way to West Colton, however, then you would at least have somewhere to go.
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Re: Cajon Pass missing section

Unread postby GSkid » Tue Jul 16, 2013 4:22 am

I haven't played the route in months....but does the freeware putnam-bsb-mojave-trona route not have this curve where this train crashed? It has the old Southern Pacific (UP) Palmdale cutoff....so it should be there.....right? !**duh*!!
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Re: Cajon Pass missing section

Unread postby CSXFECRailMan » Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:20 pm

I agree there is an extenstion of the Cajon Pass, i play that route alot! I love that route
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