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Let's give my (current) vision on the part between Hoods and Woodland.
The part between Hoods and Woodland will have a lot (well, what is a lot?) of abandoned stops on his way. I kinda want to give the feeling that this part is a little bit of a fallen section of the Riverland Mainline. Less traffic (atleast passenger trains) and maybe a bit more of Freight services and shunting locations. (and also some fallen sidings, might look good i think.) This route still play's in the 60's and well, Railroads where crumbling around that time. I want to try to put this feeling into the route but i dunno if i can succeed into that, but i hope i can succeed in that just a tiny bit!
3rd Rail Mainline?
I'm also sort of falling in love with the Third Rail Railroads of Chicago and how they opperated their lines. So i'd like to add more Third Rail to the route, mailbe the whole mainline till Hoods and from there overhead wires to Woodland., but i'm not sure if i'm going to do that yet. There are still a couple of places where it needs to stay wired in the end. Millcreeck can't have a third rail on the street sections. (or is there someone evil enough to zap people on the streets? :diablo: ). Same goes for New Holland, although the Rr is on it's own trackage, not shared with the roads, it would be better to have Overhead wires there, just so we can use PCC car's to run to East Holland. This will prevent you to runn with PCC cars up to Millcreeck though.
Anyway, here are some new screenies:
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If i'm going to replace the Wires for a Third rail, this is how the route will look, i don't think it looks too bad to be honest!
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I completely reworked the bridge between Old Greenwood and Mapleton! I think this looks way better than the past one and is actualy inspired by another bridge of the Illinois Terminal Rr. I just need to find a fitting footpath section for it, and it's considered done!
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As you can see, there are no switches to be found on the bridge, it's a sort- of Double track bridge, We havea special word for it in dutch, dunno how it's called in English, but i'll just put the dutch word in here: 'Strengelspoor' This saves the company 2 switches and therefor a big amound of mainentance costs! You can also see the differences between the new and the old Gantries on the route.
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Last change is the small roadbridge in Old Greenwood. This looks way better than the old one and it's now double track of course!
That's it for today, Let me know what you think about the 3rd rail thingy. I kind of like it and i think that it will give this route an interresting way of operating, since we will have wires on different places. So let me know, give your opinion on it! IF you rather see it stay with an overhead Wire, tell me!
Cheers,
Bobbie
