Why Isn’t Nec In The Preserved Collection?

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  1. formulabee#1362

    formulabee#1362 Well-Known Member

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    Was wondering why NEC isn’t in the preserved collection?
     
  2. LeadCatcher

    LeadCatcher Well-Known Member

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    Please do a search on these forums - plenty of threads with responses from DTG.

    Basically more work than it was worth to do so - but do search if you want more details.
     
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  3. Mattty May

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    DTG has said that it would be quicker and easier to build the route from scratch than to even try to preserve it. NEC went one direction in development whereas the other routes went another, better way. I reckon we’ll see NEC come back in one way or another relatively quickly. DTG are aware that there is a lot of demand for Amtrak to be in the game.
     
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  4. Coastway trainspotter

    Coastway trainspotter Well-Known Member

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    Maybe it will be one of the new routes on the next roadmap
     
  5. xblackwolf90

    xblackwolf90 Well-Known Member

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    NEC won't be coming to TSW2.

    However, Sam has mentioned they would like to do another Amtrak route, so maybe we'll see something similar further down the line. Nothing confirmed as yet though :)
     
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  6. Coastway trainspotter

    Coastway trainspotter Well-Known Member

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    Yea I meant that one of the new routes on the roadmap might be an Amtrak route
     
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  7. formulabee#1362

    formulabee#1362 Well-Known Member

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    Yes, maybe because in the last roadmap stream they said they were 90% sure of the next route
     
  8. solicitr

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    At a guess, I would suspect they'll do the section north of New Haven where there is actual high-speed track and the Acela Liberty can stretch its legs. DTG is very into high-speed trains lately.
     
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    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    Or you know they could also do the section that just got recently done between Washington DC and Baltimore for Train Simulator 2021, which also has a good chunk of high speed running.
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  10. solicitr

    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    125 may have counted as "high speed" in the Seventies, but not today. Eastern RI/southern Massachusetts has the only sectors of the line certified as Class 8 (above 125 up to 160mph).

    Westerly to Kingston - 105 mph
    Kingston to Cranston - 150 mph
    Cranston to South Attleboro - 70 to 100 mph
    South Attleboro to Attleboro - 125 mph
    Attleboro to Mansfield - 150 mph
    Mansfield to Back Bay - 120 to 130 mph
     
  11. kennyjamesscott

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    To put is simply, NEC is not compatible with TSW2 and it is easier to create a new route from the scratch then to work on this one.

    Will the ghost of NEC ever leave us be or will it be haunting us forevers?
     
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