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#1 keystoneaholic

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Posted 09 April 2017 - 10:27 AM

Route: Milwaukee Coast Division (with the modified track textures to overcome 'funnies' in OR).
Train: Mainly Tim Muir

Climbing up to Boylston with an Eastbound......
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k31/rhbullen/MSTS%20Screens/Milw%20090417%2001_zpsx7hii3qi.jpg

Exiting the tunnel and starting down the grade......
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k31/rhbullen/MSTS%20Screens/Milw%20090417%2002_zpsthymmqa0.jpg

Gingerly down with lots of regeneration!
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k31/rhbullen/MSTS%20Screens/Milw%20090417%2004_zpsu8jdd5up.jpg

Shortly after this I inadvertently activated the emergency brake (on my keyboard it is adjacent to the 'printscreen' key) and there appears no way to release it (OR latest release version).

I am liking this route a great deal.

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Posted 09 April 2017 - 02:12 PM

Is this the route that was uploaded to Train Sim the other day?

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Posted 09 April 2017 - 04:28 PM

Nice shots of those boxcab locomotives.

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Posted 10 April 2017 - 12:26 AM

Kenny Eaton, on 09 April 2017 - 02:12 PM, said:

Is this the route that was uploaded to Train Sim the other day?

It is indeed.

Simon and Jerry have done an extremely good job on it.

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Posted 10 April 2017 - 03:00 PM

keystoneaholic, on 10 April 2017 - 12:26 AM, said:

It is indeed.

Simon and Jerry have done an extremely good job on it.

Thank you. I will try to download this route sometime this week. I love the Milwaukee Road stuff from Jerry. I reworked the scenery of Jerry's RMD2 route.

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Posted 16 April 2017 - 10:29 AM

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Posted 17 April 2017 - 11:37 AM

Great shots.
I finally got a chance to download this route and take it for a spin.
This is definitely going to be a keeper.
Speaking of "track funnies" I was able to get the other CMSP&P routes fixed but for the life of me I can't remember what I did.
I think I must have slept since then. Maybe it was all the beer I didn't drink. Could also be all the drugs I didn't do back in the 70s.
Can you share what you did?
Old age is catching up with me.

Thanks
Steve

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Posted 20 April 2017 - 04:51 AM

It is impressive to run the Columbia River Bridge to the old boxcabs. :dance3:

Many thanks to the Route Designers Jerry Sullivan and Simon van de Laak.
And also thanks to Tim Muir, that he built us the box cab electrics long ago

Best regards

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Posted 20 April 2017 - 06:47 AM

Wow! I have to download this route some day! The Columbia River Bridge looks awesome. Your thanks are very welcome, Malte. I'm always happy to see the old GE's being used, especially now with the opening of the Coast Division (again :) ).

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Posted 07 May 2017 - 07:36 AM

I finally got this route installed (thanks Rob!) and have been enjoying the small bits I've explored so far.

Stretching the E34's legs starting from Cle Elum in MSTS.

The portal inscription of "C M & P S" is neat, for Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, a short-lived moniker for the fledgling Coast Division, or Western Extension, before it became Chicago, Milwaukee, St.Paul & Pacific.

Well done, Simon and Jerry. I've waited for the Coast Division since forever. :sign_thanks:

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