New York Central Water Level Route (Route Progress Thread)
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:35 pmI was requested by Jon Peters to start a thread involving the route we are working on to allow the 4-6-4 J3a Hudson and the Hudson Dreyfuss to be run in some sort of native territory. The route so far is in the 1930s era and is more fictional than not, from Utica to St. Johnsville 4 track mainline super elevated semaphore signaled and uses assets from the Horseshoe Curve, Bessemer & Lake Erie, and some freeware assets from our RWA collections. Jon asked me to help with the route, and I proceeded to acquire good terrain tiles for the route. Boosted Fridge helped me to get the correct resolution tiles and to assemble them as to permit good distant terrain, Thanks to Colin for your help. After getting the terrain tiles in order, I proceeded to lay track and I decided I wanted to try super elevated track. This stuff is tough to work with and is seriously tough to repair, but onward I went. I tried to use as many high angled turnouts as possible to accommodate ridged framed locomotives. I also used Michael Stephan's semaphore signals as I could find no others that looked as though they would work on gantries, and I have used his roundhouse kit, Thanks Michael. Thanks to all for the use of the assets, and being payware, some assets need to have the user acquire the specific routes through DTG for the assets to show.
At the present time I have the yards at Utica done to some reasonable facsimile of the yards there in the 1930s, I am certain there was much more track there back in the day, as there were three or four different railroads focusing on Utica. There is the locomotive facility there, and back in the day there were at least three roundhouses from different railroads. The next area that has been in development is Frankfort which is in now in progress, but I have halted all building since I would like to finish the track and signals.
The following images give you some idea what has been accomplished so far.
A neighborhood west of Utica Jon Peters has worked on as he was learning to take on some duties with route building.
A furniture factory Jon Peters worked on just north of the above image.
Looking across the 4 track mainline, the Locomotive Facilities at Utica.
Looking east over the 4 track mainline into the yard area with the Utica Station on the right. The passenger station has four service tracks for the station.
Looking over the Genesee St. Bridge we see the freight yards in the distance and the ominous flood lights for night lighting.
Looking west into the yard area, station and mainline we see freight cars being unloaded and others waiting for their turn.
Looking northwest through the freight yards we see the oil storage yards in the distance.
This is a long distant shot of Frankfort Station, the first town east of Utica, the town of Frankfort is to the right off camera, the Mohawk River is the waterway here, and the Erie canal more to the right off camera.
Here at Little Falls we can see the effects of super elevation as the train rounds the curve into the station area of Little Falls.
I hope you enjoy what you see here, but with little help this route will take some time to complete. The original plan was to make the Water Level Route from Hudson to Buffalo, an approximately 250 miles, but we decided on starting with what we have now, about 38 miles of linear track, from Utica, through Frankfort, Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, and St. Johnsville to allow for the release of the two great Hudson models of Darlan Gomes(DSGDDR). We will release new updates as the route continues to grow as each new city area is added. Any positive feedback and constructive criticism is always welcome.
And thanks for following this thread.
At the present time I have the yards at Utica done to some reasonable facsimile of the yards there in the 1930s, I am certain there was much more track there back in the day, as there were three or four different railroads focusing on Utica. There is the locomotive facility there, and back in the day there were at least three roundhouses from different railroads. The next area that has been in development is Frankfort which is in now in progress, but I have halted all building since I would like to finish the track and signals.
The following images give you some idea what has been accomplished so far.
A neighborhood west of Utica Jon Peters has worked on as he was learning to take on some duties with route building.
A furniture factory Jon Peters worked on just north of the above image.
Looking across the 4 track mainline, the Locomotive Facilities at Utica.
Looking east over the 4 track mainline into the yard area with the Utica Station on the right. The passenger station has four service tracks for the station.
Looking over the Genesee St. Bridge we see the freight yards in the distance and the ominous flood lights for night lighting.
Looking west into the yard area, station and mainline we see freight cars being unloaded and others waiting for their turn.
Looking northwest through the freight yards we see the oil storage yards in the distance.
This is a long distant shot of Frankfort Station, the first town east of Utica, the town of Frankfort is to the right off camera, the Mohawk River is the waterway here, and the Erie canal more to the right off camera.
Here at Little Falls we can see the effects of super elevation as the train rounds the curve into the station area of Little Falls.
I hope you enjoy what you see here, but with little help this route will take some time to complete. The original plan was to make the Water Level Route from Hudson to Buffalo, an approximately 250 miles, but we decided on starting with what we have now, about 38 miles of linear track, from Utica, through Frankfort, Ilion, Herkimer, Little Falls, and St. Johnsville to allow for the release of the two great Hudson models of Darlan Gomes(DSGDDR). We will release new updates as the route continues to grow as each new city area is added. Any positive feedback and constructive criticism is always welcome.
And thanks for following this thread.
