General North American 3rd Party News (non Dramatic Version)

On a side note, Searchlight Simulations made an update post yesterday.

 

Yes, Milepost and other payware developers should make new assets! It would breathe new life into the game.

 

There's a lot of the country e.g. Wisconsin, Ohio, New England, the Carolinas doesn't look like Mars.
There are too many routes set in the Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Utah area with long trains dragged up long grades end to end with no intermediate traffic and this will be another of the same ilk.

 

They could be joined together to make a network?

 

Outside of the new york area routes very few ts1 us routes are close enough together to be merged. Pretty much the only one that can be (and has been) merged is marias and the hi line.

 

So, it doesn't seem like Milepost is done with TSC, his site has a preview of his next route, another Narrow Gauge Route.

 

TBT is also making a Ferromex SD70ACU....


For some reason...... (Feel like it doesn't have much uses in game aside from random foreign power lashups)

 

I think KCS and Ferromex had a cooperation, and their locos showed up in KCS trains

 

Anyone heard of any new updates on the Searchlight Simulations SD40's?

 

Milepost's next narrow gauge route in the works:

 

From the TSC discord, mfeets identified the route as Alpine Pass. 1st photo is the engine house that was located up near Alpine Tunnel.

 

New C424's from DW, this time in Conrail, Reading, and D&H

 

Sorry, I only have limited knowledge of US railroading. What routes are they applicable to please?

 

Conrail operated primarily in the North Eastern states. Delaware & Hudson - Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Maryland but reached Montreal. Reading primarily an Anthracite and coal hauler in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. D&H and Reading folded into Conrail when the PennCentral collapsed taking many others with it.
An ideal route for the Conrail collection would be Ohio Steel 2 which although in actuality was a Baltimore & Ohio route (later CSX) it is the type of road the C424s would have been used on - slogging with steel, coal and similar.

 

I believe that the EL units would go great on Minerman's Bergen Line that's on the Workshop.

 

Nice looking engines, and set up perfectly for photography.
Not some sterile setting from HIS or Milepost's promo's.

 

Another suitable route would be the workshop route "The Bedford Junction Branch".

 

One can always also run them on Adriana County, as 2nd hand units passed down to a shortline.

 

Something's going down with Machine Rail this month

 

A 40ft Steel Boxcar Pack.
https://www.machine-rail.com/product-page/40ft-steel-box-cars-pack?currency=USD

 

Excuse my ignorance, but roughly what years do they apply to?

 

First built in 1924 they were in service up into the 1980's when the last of them either reached the 40 year life of service or were retired for the more efficient 50' cars.

 

At least the 50-60s with exception to the Conrail cars, which have to be at least post 1976.

 

SPS seem to be working on Dash 9's.

 

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