Sand Patch Grades(chessie System Cabooses)?

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  1. SHINO BAZ

    SHINO BAZ Well-Known Member

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    On SPG there are 2 static cabooses(livery as chessie system).If dtg has had the rights to use this road name for around 3 years,why do you think they have never used it on any locomotive or rolling stock?Wouldn't this have been perfect for a few locomotive+rolling stock add on dlc?Or maybe a route add on featuring the chessie system.
     
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    stujoy Well-Known Member

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    They don’t make routes or locos just because they happen to have the license. They typically choose what to make and then see if they can get the license. In this specific case the license may only have been given to use on those specific cabooses as static scenery and nothing else. We just don’t know for sure.
     
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  3. Blacknred81

    Blacknred81 Well-Known Member

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    If CSX allowed DTG to use the Clinchfield License to make a route, I don't see why they couldn't do one for the Chessie System as well, as both are fallen flags owned by CSX now. (Though we never got a Chessie route for TS21 either, only 1 loco and 1 reskin.)

    Though the Chessie System merger is also kind of odd as all 3 railroads that were apart of it (B&O, C&O, and WM) all still kept their individual identification markings.
     
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  4. solicitr

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    DTG has never made a vintage US (or German) route before the upcoming Clinchfield. While the 70s would be an interesting era to model, I expect most vintage US railfans would prefer the 50s-early 60s, when there was such a variety of rolling stock and liveries.

    The Chessie System was a holding company which owned three railroads- as recognized by the FRA, each with its own reporting marks, rolling stock and trackage (C&O, B&O, WM). The contemporary Family Lines worked on the same principle: six railroads owned by the same holding company, SCL Industries, and sharing a common livery (in theory) but each remaining a separate entity (SCL, L&N, CRR, GRR, AWP, WRA).

    In 1982, in preparation for the long-planned CSX merger, both Chessie System and SCLI absorbed their constituent RRs and each produced a unified operator, still called Chessie System on the one hand, but Seaboard System on the other- and 9 railroads were reduced to 2 (4 years later to become 1).
     
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  5. GildenSpikeRailVideos

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    I would like the 80’s and 90’s in the US. You’ve got stuff like Conrail, Early CSX and Norfolk Southern, and in the 70’s you have Norfolk and Western, Southern railway, seaboard, ACL, etc.
     
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  6. solicitr

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    Well, ACL merged with Seaboard in 1967.

    I think one big reason to look at pre-1970 would be passenger rail, every RR running its own rather than just having Amtrak. Come on, who wouldn't want the Super Chief in ATSF Warbonnet?
     
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    I know what you mean by passenger stuff, but isn’t train sim world turning into Passenger Sim World?
     
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    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps, but all the North American content right now is freight (or subway, which barely counts as "passenger.")
     
  9. Crosstie

    Crosstie Well-Known Member

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    Did you mean to exclude commuter rail, LIRR, Penn Corridor?
     
  10. solicitr

    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    The LIRR is a subway that sees the sun
     
  11. GildenSpikeRailVideos

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    Lirr has an overground railroad thing with diesels, but subway is technically passenger.
     
  12. solicitr

    solicitr Well-Known Member

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    What is missing in North American routes is real passenger service: mainline operations on 132-lb rails between cities. That means either a) Amtrak or b) vintage.
     
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  13. BLRy

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    Me too 70s/80s just before the elimination of cabooses, but in Canada.
    And some scenic regional railways like BC Rail, Algoma Central, Northern Alberta, Ontario Northland, &c.
     

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