This route here goes around 100 miles between the cities of Temple and Cleburne in Texas. Why not all the way to Fort Worth? Well I believe this would add 50 miles to the route, making a 3 hour journey, too long. That's why I say Cleburne is far enough. At the start in Temple, you'll find two BNSF train yards, the UP Waco Subdivision crossing the BNSF Galveston Subdivision at a diamond crossing, the locomotive depot sandwiched between the yards, and my favorite, the train station and heritage museum. Amtrak runs this route making one stop along the way, like on Cajon Pass and Schnellfahrstrecke Kassel - Würzburg, at McGregor, 1/4 of the way to the next stop, Cleburne. Temple is where Amtrak also stops at. The big building there is the old 3 story Santa Fe depot. In front of it is all that old equipment that has been sitting there for a long time. There's even a century old steam locomotive on display over there. The Amtrak thruway bus makes its start-end point on its route to Killeen. McGregor is where another thruway bus makes its route to Waco. Cleburne lastly has a caboose sitting a couple hundred feet from the station building, has a small BNSF yard there, and now that station there has one of the shortest platforms I have seen, being only a couple yards long. Not only that, but it's one of the few stations to not have a yellow line, just a wooden plank to represent just as close as you can get to the tracks. Pretty close really. I stood on the edge of the brick platform there and the train passing by me there was just a couple feet away from me. Now the line is mainly single track, but it has many sidings to go on. Rolling stock, I don't know what can be added, but there can be an introduction to BNSF coal cars and autoracks with their own logo on it instead of using the same ones from Sherman Hill. Now though for Amtrak rolling stock, one Amtrak P42DC, one Superliner Diner, two Superliner Coach Class cars, and one Superliner Sleeper. Yes, that's the entire Amtrak Texas Eagle formation, just four cars and one locomotive. Just two services per day with Amtrak on this route and I would not appreciate that if the Amtrak train was its own DLC. Let it come with the route at the same time it releases. Oh yeah there is frequent freight service on the route so that's good.
This BNSF route is a good idea. I want the route to include a couple of new locos. A BNSF SD70MAC for the coal trains would be nice to see. An ET44C4 or C44-9W/AC44C4M is needed for any modern BNSF route. A GP60/GP60M-3/GP60B, GP50/GP25, or GP39-3 would be perfect for local/switching operations, as would a B40-8W. The Texas Eagle Amtrak passenger train is a neat idea, but I agree that it needs to be a layer or DLC.
