I still love firing up Oakville for the loading services. More routes are needed with setup jobs in the timetable for those freight delivery services.
The only ones I can't get to work are the ethanol ones. Totally bugged. The rest are pretty good. I think SPG and WSR are the other ones with decent shunting and scenario moves. Other than that....
Clinchfield would be fine with a remaster. Not a ton of shunting, but there is some loading of coal. The lighting and textures are just VERY dated now. Something is a bit off about the traction too, but it's still playable. Just looking old and tired. Oakville, HSC and SPG by comparison still look good. Clinchfield is about where TVL or NTP are in terms of lighting and textures.
Nothing wrong with Clinchfield that can't be fixed with a lighting update, some minor pathing corrections and the fixing of the notoriously missing banking coms. DTG made a potentially excellent route with some initial errors, promised to fix them in short order......and then promptly abandoned the route ( and their promises ).
Me too. Would also love some cargo variations; some routes where agriculture is prevalent would be neat. Grain elevators are my jam Or iron ore unloading at a Great Lakes port.
There's already a lot of industries on existing routes that just aren't used. Even the sidings are there, there's just no scenarios routed into or out of them. We have Cargo packs, but they still don't do the sidings part, they just go mainline to mainline. We could use something more comprehensive, like you see in the TSC add on packs. For example "pick up these cars from these locations going down the line" or "bring in these cars, swap out for these" etc. It's all right there on the maps. The assets are already built. A FEW of those scenarios already exist (esp on WSR, SPG, OAK, etc) but there's just so much more they could do with simple expansion/scenario packs. All that freight that and all those sidings on the Antelope line for example and there's just one real huge "run" up and then back on the mainline in that whole timetable. What a waste.
-A few of my great suggestions (that would actually make sense): -Seattle Sounder/Amtrak Cascades/BNSF Everett-Tacoma: present-day 81.8 miles of freight and passenger action; include Sounder F59PHI and/or MP40PH-3C and Commuter Coaches/Cab Cars; possible BNSF power: GP39-3 (rebuilt GP30 or GP35), BNSF ET44C4, BNSF C44-9W, BNSF SD75M/SD75I, BNSF SD60M-3, BNSF GP50, BNSF GP60/GP60M-3/GP60B; Cascades SC44 Charger and new Aero Venture Coaches/Cab Car; also needed: BNSF Boeing Fuselage Train for Renton Boeing facility; also Amtrak Empire Builder and Coast Starlight Superliner Trains w/ P42DCs or ALC-42 Chargers -Tehachapi Pass: Mojave-Bakersfield; 68 miles; SP and ATSF 1990s; possible locos: SP/ATSF GP60s, SP SD70M/ATSF SD75M, SP/ATSF C44-9Ws, ATSF B40-8/SP B39-8, ATSF B40-8W, ATSF GP38U/SP GP38-2 -Chicago Metra/BNSF Racetrack (or maybe CB&Q or BN version if DTG can't get Metra licensing); present-day; 37.5 miles; include BNSF Corwith Yard, local industries, Metra shop facilities, and Union Station; include Metra F40PHM-3 (including special units) and/or F40PH-3 and commuter coaches/cab cars and BNSF GP39-3, GP60/M/B, C44-9W, ET44C4, GP38-2, B40-8W/B40-8; also include Amtrak Midwest SC44 Charger and Venture Coaches and Amtrak P42DC or ALC-42 Charger w/ SW Chief and/or California Zephyr Superliner Trains -UP Bailey Yard/North Platte: largest freight yard in the world; possible locos: UP AC6000CW/C44ACM, GP60, SD70M (including Abraham Lincoln #1616), SD70ACe-T4, GP40N, SD59MX; also UP Heritage Fleet: E9s, Big Boy #4014, and FEF-3 #844 -Some longer dream routes that we should get that would require multiple extensions: -ATSF/BNSF Seligman Subdivision: Needles, CA-Winslow, AZ (293.5 miles); also include Grand Canyon RR branch (64 miles); this is one of my favorite train-watching spots; lots of trains (70+ per day!) and great desert/mountain scenery; also Route 66 and lots of history -WP Feather River Canyon: Oroville-Portola; include GN/BN Inside Gateway and Quincy RR; possible locos: WP U30B, GP40/GP40-2, GP20, GP35, U23B, SW9, Baldwin VO1000, EMD FP7/F7A and F7B for CA Zephyr; also include GN or BN power and Quincy RR power -D&RGW Soldier Summit: Helper-Salt Lake City, UT; possible locos: D&RGW SD50, SD40T-2, GP40/GP40-2, GP30, SD7, SD9, SW1200, Amtrak F40PH w/ CA Zephyr Superliner Consist -SP Donner Pass: Roseville, CA-Reno, NV; 140+ miles; 1970s-90s; possible locos: SP SD40T-2, SD45T-2, SD45(R), SD40(R), SD45X, SD38-2, GP38-2, GP40-2, GP60, C44-9W, AC4400CW; could we get SP Cab Forwards in a steam-era version of Donner Pass? -A Couple of Short Lines and Museum Lines: -Nevada Northern RR: include steam and diesel power, especially #250, an ex-SP SD9R -Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge -Cumbres and Toltec NG -White Pass and Yukon NG -Aberdeen, Carolina, and Western; include ex-NS OCS F9s and other locos -Reading and Northern; include Reading T1 4-8-4 #2102 and ex-NS OCS F9s -Route updates and extensions needed: -Cajon Pass: Barstow-Mojave and SP/UP Palmdale Cutoff: Mojave-West Colton Yard -UP Sherman Hill: Harriman Line (3rd track over route)
