Hi,
Sorry for taking so long to reply.
ozinoz wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but I am not overly familiar with the route in question. Looking at a map from 1929 that I have found, its difficult to tell, but it look slike there are 2 almost direct routes through from Hartford to New Haven, what looks like New Britain and Berlin, Meridan, Yalesville to North Haven or New Britain, Plainsville and Mt Carmel to New Haven. Which will it be ?
I've uploaded an overview map of our route, taken from a NH system map of a later date (late 50s if I remember correctly). All bold lines mark passenger/freight routes, bold dashed lines mark freight only routes. The number of lines marks the number of mainline tracks on each route.
Red = Version 1 -- Orange = Version 2 -- Yellow = Version 3 -- Green = possible future expansion
The Springfield Line is the double tracked freight/passenger line that runs from New Haven via Meriden to Hartford.
ozinoz wrote:The yards and engine facilities over the river towards East Hartford; will they updated in the next version? You could always head N,NE back to Springfield
We haven't decided about that yet. Our main priority has to be to reach New Haven and complete the actual Springfield Line. Currently we see East Hartford as a bit of a "nice to have" thing. It would actually be very nice to have, a lot of switching going on there, plus street running on former trolley tracks down to the huge Pratt & Whitney plant. Sadly all that also means a lot of extra work.
OldProf wrote:Cedar Hill looks like the most useful yard I've seen yet for AI switchers working in parallel with player engines, primarily because each of the main sections of the yard has its own entrance and exit tracks.
It is a fascinating yard, isn't it? In reality the two 50+ track classification yards were hump yards, the humps were located on the ladders facing towards the center of the whole complex. A fact which our route is completely ignoring since kicking cars is and probably will always be impossible in RW (I am aware of the latest experiments being done). Our Cedar Hill Yard will be flat switching only.
Cheers
Michael
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