Thurmont and Branford Railroad

[goddrauG]

Wow. I've been a registered user for about 8 minutes and I'm already telling you all about a new route I'm making

So, most New England Railworks America users probably know Rick Kfoury, an awesome content creator, everything he makes is based off New England. So one day I decided "Hmm, what if I put some of his content to good use, being a New Englander myself." So out came the Thurmont and Branford short line railroad. It takes heavy inspiration from the Claremont and Concord railroad in it's 1980s form (I have it set in modern day times, but eh.) The railroad had a very, well, funky design. Not only did it happen to go through the scenic backside of New Hampshire, but it also went into Downtown Claremont, only allowing very short locomotives to work the line.

Anyways, enough chit-chat. Here come the Screenshots!



The Thurmont and Branford city job rolls through downtown Thurmont, showcasing one of two of the railroad's locomotives, an unpainted GE 44-Tonner. The "City Spur" serves a plastic pellets company, a wood products company, a food warehouse, a beverage facility, a scrapper company, and a cold storage warehouse.



The Thurmont and Branford railroad's County Job, normally run by their aging S2, services three industries in the town of New Bedford; a furniture outlet, a gravel pit, and a small paper mill. The line from New Bedford used to go further to Branford, but the line has been cut back to the Paper Mill.

This route Requires:

Payware:
-RWA Lakeside (Railworks America)
-Portland Terminal (Steam Store)
-VNHRR (Trains and Drivers)
-Horseshoe Curve (Steam Store)

Freeware:
-RCAP Community Assets product (Railworks America)
-Both of Jpetersjr Covered Bridges (Freeware at http://www.i-m.mx/jpetersjr/BigJProductions/)
-John Lippai's New River District Trestle Pack

Highly Suggested:
-B&M GE 44-Tonner (Steam Store)
-Dogmouse's S2 and Rick Kfoury's B&M Repaints (Railworks America)
-MaineLines FMC Plate-C and Plate-B Boxcars and Rick's repaints of them (Not neccessary for any real reason, they just look realistic and it's nice to have them"

Thanks To Rick Kfoury and Dogmouse for their awesome locomotives and repaints, Jpetersjr for his covered bridges, and to John Lippai for his trestle pack.



The Thurmont and Branford railroad, coming (very) soon to Railworks America!

[RickKfoury]

Wow this looks great! I'm a big fan of the C&C and this looks like a great fictional route based off it. Looking forward to it and if you need any more repaints for the route please let me know.

[goddrauG]

Thanks, Rick! I was going to do something else for a route design, but the C&C just kept popping into my brain, so I went with that.

[goddrauG]

There are two things I forgot to mention.

For the city spur, there is a very, Very tough grade.



Partially based off of this



Second, this route is rather small. I don't know how small, because I don't know how to measure distances. However, there is a lot of switching to be done, and the way I see it, the smaller the route is, the more detail can be shoved in!

In the meantime, here is a screenshot of the start of the Downtown street running. I'm nearly done and I hope to finish it soon.