Feather River Canyon Route Extension

[dleeboy]

Eight Miles of scenery detail almost complete. From where DTG left off at Quincy to The Spring Garden Tunnel entrance. Only 24 Miles of detail to go to reach Portola California. Hopefully this coming week I can finish up the eight miles. And then start working my way to Portola.

[jalsina]

Looking very, very good!

[imnew]

Nice !

[dleeboy]

Route update I have finished the Eight Miles from Quincy to Spring Garden Tunnel. This includes all scenery detail Track Destinations with Yard sidings Markers and Mile Posts.

Here is a video with the date of April 15th 1974 in the Spring Time. It is a EMD F7 Western Pacific Mixed freight Train Heading toward Quincy California going over the Williams Loop. The video is over 12 minutes long.

https://youtu.be/a1EEd7slszQ

[OldProf]

That swamp in the meadow looks great. Is a sound tower of frogs croaking available?

[NStrains]

I feel really sorry for those two F-units hahaha

[dleeboy]

Here is a video from the Start of the Extension just outside of Quincy to The Spring Garden Tunnel. I made it this way so everyone can see the whole route as of now. The total length as of now is 10 Miles long. And the video runs 21 minutes.
I have started on the other side of the tunnel. I am placing track and the river now.

https://youtu.be/7l4uezoGBk8

[jalsina]

I watched the latest video last night. This route extension is a serious promise of success.

[dleeboy]

Thanks that is my goal. I am laying track today and hoping to get to Two Rivers by the end of the day.
I still need someone to help me with Route Markers so people can fly to the Different locations. I am talking about the Google Earth ones and importing them into the existing route. I don't want to overwrite the ones that DTG put in.

[dleeboy]

Track is laid to Two Rivers California. Only 14 Miles more of track to lay to Portola California. I may extend the route to Hawley where the tracks separate. From Google Earth it looks like an old Branch line the track looks old.

[McCRRR19]

Track is laid to Two Rivers California. Only 14 Miles more of track to lay to Portola California. I may extend the route to Hawley where the tracks separate. From Google Earth it looks like an old Branch line the track looks old.

The branch at Hawley is the old line to Loyalton, which used to be a portion on of the old Boca & Loyalton which was the first standard gauge railroad in the area, prior to the WP being built. The used to cross on a diamond with the line heading north belonging to the Clover Valley Lumber Company, their mill was in Loyalton. Also, a couple miles before Hawley, the WP had branch that went south to the community of Calpine. Attached is a map of the the local railroads in the area at one time.

White: Sierra Valley & Mohawk (a 3 foot narrow gauge that was the first railroad in the area, connected to the narrow gauge Nevada-California-Oregon Railway at a place called Plumas Jct, the SV&M would later become a subsidiary of the NCO, the coming of the WP was the end of the SV&M)

Blue: Boca & Loyalton

Green: Clover Valley Lumber Company

Orange: Western Pacific-Calpine Branch

Black: Western Pacific Main

Hawley_Beckworth.jpg

Tim Stricker
Gillette, WY

[dleeboy]

Here is an update of my progress on the route. I am getting close to Sloat doing scenery detail takes a long time. Since I am the only one doing this I think I will go to Two Rivers for now and stop there for the time being. It is 6 miles from Sloat to Two Rivers. And I have a mile or two to get to Sloat.

So after I make it to Two Rivers I will Release it to the people that want it and already have The Feather River Canyon Route. Going to Portola California will take me some time to complete.

[dleeboy]

Alright everyone I have laid the track all the way to Portola California. I still have to put the yard in at Portola and clean somethings up and put in the bridges along the way. After I do this I am going to give this route Project to whoever asks for it. Like I always say you have to have the Feather River Canyon Route First. This would take me over a year to do all of the scenery. And that is just too long for me to do. So you route builders out there can finish putting down the scenery all the way to Portola if you would like. You will have the scenery I have put down already including the Williams Loop.

I will call the Route FRC Extension to Portola. I will take out the freeware assets list of assets. And leave just Kuji and DTG FRC assets. I have only used just a few assets so if you don't have these it will be no big deal.

[dleeboy]

I am finished with laying track to Portola and doing what I am going to do. I have put the route in a RWP file. For those that want my Extension to the Feather River Canyon Route. Please PM me and I will verify that you have the DTG FRC route first. And then I will send you my Extension version of the route. My version has 10 Miles of scenery done. And track laid all the way to Portola California. I use Dropbox to send the route.

[dleeboy]

Working on Portola Yard.