Curious: PRR Portage Route

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Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby RailWanderer » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:17 pm

Hi Folks,

I was wondering if there is still any interest in the New Portage Freight Route extension of HSC? I started it a while back, but got such negative feedback about myself that I figured anything I would do would be unacceptable. I don't want to hear anything about me, just about whether the route is something the community wants. Thanks.

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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby JohnTrainHead » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:23 pm

That's quite an interesting trackplan. Would love to see how it connects with the existing HSC route in-game. !!*ok*!!
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby RailWanderer » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:34 pm

JohnTrainHead wrote:That's quite an interesting trackplan. Would love to see how it connects with the existing HSC route in-game. !!*ok*!!


Take a look at the video I posted, it was an afterthought.
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby gtrtroger » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:52 pm

RailWanderer wrote:
JohnTrainHead wrote:That's quite an interesting trackplan. Would love to see how it connects with the existing HSC route in-game. !!*ok*!!


Take a look at the video I posted, it was an afterthought.


What video?
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby buzz456 » Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:54 pm

gtrtroger wrote:
RailWanderer wrote:
JohnTrainHead wrote:That's quite an interesting trackplan. Would love to see how it connects with the existing HSC route in-game. !!*ok*!!


Take a look at the video I posted, it was an afterthought.


What video?

The video that is right under the track plan. !!det!!
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby gtrtroger » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:05 pm

See IOS Safari doesn't show it. Went to the desktop and there it was....

WOW... lots of trackage added. You PRR guys should be all over this..... Is all this CSX today?
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby RailWanderer » Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:40 pm

gtrtroger wrote:See IOS Safari doesn't show it. Went to the desktop and there it was....

WOW... lots of trackage added. You PRR guys should be all over this..... Is all this CSX today?


I believe the HSC and the Pittsburg Division (Old Middle Division of PRR) are NS (Norfolk Southern). The New Portage Freight Route is a thing of the past, I believe it was closed to traffic in the late 1970s. It was built originally to divert freight from the HSC to allow for a more efficient way to handle the freight and passengers. The route started in the east just west of Huntingdon at Petersburg and in the west near the Allegheny Tunnels. At Hollidaysburg there was a wye that allowed traffic to run to Altoona, this is shown in the video.

Here's another video showing the east branch at Petersburg:
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby AmericanSteam » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:44 pm

I would be interested i it. Is there a list of need payware assets needed?
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby TheR62Fan » Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:50 pm

If it means I can have somewhere else to run Darlan's stock instead of just HSC I'm all for it.
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby RailWanderer » Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:03 pm

AmericanSteam wrote:I would be interested i it. Is there a list of need payware assets needed?


As far as I know it would be HSC, and some RailWanderer assets, and DSGDDR assets if you want to run those.
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby cnwfan » Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:45 pm

I too would be interested.
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby pkz19 » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:00 pm

I'd love to have another PRR route!
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby philmoberg » Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:51 pm

Go for it! We have plenty of power and rolling stock to run on it. That was some very interesting railroading, back in the day.
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Re: Curious: PRR Portage Route

Unread postby RailWanderer » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:19 pm

Ok, Thanks for the feedback. I might just start a new thread in the Freeware WIP section for this route and make the updates available through a link to One Drive. Its much simpler for me that way.
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