Amtrak Wolverine Official Thread (With pictures)

[Amtrak351]

Since the guy at Trainsim.com stop working on his route, I a'm going to start my own. It will be the same route (Amtrak Wolverine from Kalamazoo to Chicago). The only thing I need so far is the BO Tower and a Grand Elk SD40-2 Repaint.

http://railroadfan.com/gallery/displayi ... -6512.html

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[CSXFECRailMan]

Nice to see a route that goes to Chicago,

[1225fan5358]

Since the guy at Trainsim.com stop working on his route, I a'm going to start my own. It will be the same route (Amtrak Wolverine from Kalamazoo to Chicago). The only thing I need so far is the BO Tower and a Grand Elk SD40-2 Repaint.

http://railroadfan.com/gallery/displayi ... -6512.html

GDLK SD40? Which one?!!!! Remember, they have SO many variations of Geeps and SD's. You might want Horizon Coaches as well. Also, it almost seems like a good idea to merge the route with imnew's NS Chicago Line Route to save you some work from Chesterton to Blue Island.

[Amtrak351]

Since the guy at Trainsim.com stop working on his route, I a'm going to start my own. It will be the same route (Amtrak Wolverine from Kalamazoo to Chicago). The only thing I need so far is the BO Tower and a Grand Elk SD40-2 Repaint.

http://railroadfan.com/gallery/displayi ... -6512.html

GDLK SD40? Which one?!!!! Remember, they have SO many variations of Geeps and SD's. You might want Horizon Coaches as well. Also, it almost seems like a good idea to merge the route with imnew's NS Chicago Line Route to save you some work from Chesterton to Blue Island.

From my knowledge there is no GP40-2LW so that's out of the picture and we don't have a GP38-3, GP35M. Just sticking with the SD40-2 seemed like a better thing and I was hoping some one was working a some Horizon cars and maybe some updated amfleets. If Imnew want to merge the routes than it fine with me.

[buzz456]

Not in any way to tell you what to do but you get the route done and the rolling stock will get made. The will to make routes is a lot less in general than rolling stock and a lot more work.

[Amtrak351]

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How do you get the track to crossover and how do you get rid of the wire on the tracks.

[Chacal]

I think the wire is there because you chose an electrified track.

[Amtrak351]

I think the wire is there because you chose an electrified track.

I don't think I did but I will check.

[XDriver]

Your best bet on learning something, ( route building/track laying), is to do a search on youtube and watch some tutorials. Trust me. I learned a heck of a lot that way.

[Amtrak351]

Your best bet on learning something, ( route building/track laying), is to do a search on youtube and watch some tutorials. Trust me. I learned a heck of a lot that way.

I found out how to do it now by looking at YouTube videos.

[Amtrak351]

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Can someone make a better BO Tower? Maybe.

[XDriver]

Watch this to put the finishing touch to the cross overs.

[RvA944]

Saw this thread last night, and thought that looks like a fun little building to model. And being that I had a couple of hours to kill today I made this. If you want to use it I'll finish it up and get it over to you.

Kalamazoo _R01.jpg

[Amtrak351]

Saw this thread last night, and thought that looks like a fun little building to model. And being that I had a couple of hours to kill today I made this. If you want to use it I'll finish it up and get it over to you.

Kalamazoo _R01.jpg

OMG!!! Thanks for making it. I would love to use it.

[RvA944]

ok I'll get it finished up here in the next day or so.

Now the real question, how beat up do you want it? I found one pic of this tower from the 50/60's and it was in fairly good shape back then, and then there are the pics in it's current shape. I can do either version for you.