[charland]

MSTS Route Springfield Terminal Railway

The six mile long STRy was the last electric shortline in New England. The line connected Springfeild Vermont with the Boston and Maine at Charlestown New Hampshire. The route is set in the early-1950s and includes passenger only trackage that was taken out of service in 1947.

Route is complete with over 26 hours of activities including one weeks freight activities and one 1946 passenger activity. Included are two printable maps, freight activity work orders, and a list of required rolling stock to run the activities.

Route requires New Roads v4.0, xtracks v3.20, and BIN 1.7.

Created by Paul Charland.

[hiball3985]

Thank you Paul, I've been looking forward to this one. I just started the download and when I get up in the morning I'll have it. Damn dial-up...

Jim

[chripsch]

Great news!

I`ll load it down as soon as I am back in Bavaria!
Looking really forward to the route!

Best regards from Turin, Italy,

Christian

[charland]

Hope you like the route, I had fun with the activities. Switching Mineral Street is a challenge with a three car run-around, might make you stop and thing for a bit. Remember, sand is your friend!

Paul :-)

[rfranzosa]

 charland, on Feb 3 2009, 08:52 AM, said:

Hope you like the route, I had fun with the activities. Switching Mineral Street is a challenge with a three car run-around, might make you stop and thing for a bit. Remember, sand is your friend!

Paul :-)

So, Paul....

What's the next project :lol:

Rick

[charland]

Hi Rick,

I wouldn't mind a Canadian route but finding DEM and satellite shots without paying hundreds of dollars isn't working. Seriously thinking of the CV Winooski Sub in the mid '50s or early '80s, or the Green Mountain in the early '80s. It's been a whole twenty-four without starting a drawing and I feel one coming on!

Paul :-)

[rfranzosa]

 charland, on Feb 3 2009, 09:31 AM, said:

Hi Rick,

I wouldn't mind a Canadian route but finding DEM and satellite shots without paying hundreds of dollars isn't working. Seriously thinking of the CV Winooski Sub in the mid '50s or early '80s, or the Green Mountain in the early '80s. It's been a whole twenty-four without starting a drawing and I feel one coming on!

Paul :-)

How about the Rutland?

[charland]

Hi Rick,

The Green Mountain could be backdated to the Rutland, the CV Winooski 1950s version would include the Rutland at Burlington.

The bad thing about New England is there are so many good route opportunities there isn't enough time to do them all. Even the Conn River from WRJ to EDF isn't too big and would have plenty of operations in the fifties to make it worth the time it would take.

An '80s GMRC would see CPSP and EDWJ go through Bellows while you're making your train up in the morning before heading to Rutland, VTR, CLP, and D&H at Rutland, then about the time you're returning to Bellows, SPCV should be heading north. Activities would center around road switching your way to and from Rutland with yard and local switching at North Walpole, but if they gets boring you could alway run a Steamtown fan trip using either steam or one of the GMRC's RS-1s, and there's alway the chance of recreating some of the detours freights that the B&M ran over the line or running a detoured Amtrak Montrealer... now how am I trying to sell on this idea!

Paul :-)

[hiball3985]

I'm up and running. Haven't downloaded all the trains for the activities yet, Doing an explore and having fun. Everything looks great. You did another awesome job Paul. Thanks JIM

[charland]

Thanks Jim,

After reading Scott Whitney's articles in RMC back in 1999 I knew the Springfield Terminal would be a fun one to run, took ten years and the internet, home computers and a few months of drawing to find out for sure.

Your trolley man needs his eyes checked, must have taken a wrong turn around the Anheuser Busch plant!

Paul :-)