They’ve been working on this for several years now, but they’ve finally done a full test of the new train set on the entire 51 mile peninsula corridor! https://www.caltrain.com/news/caltr...-milestone-electrification-project-successful I can’t wait to ride this fall. edit: looks like they just tested the energized lines. it’d be great if we could get an update to the add on adding the new train set.
Congratulations to Caltrain. As the route was made on the first TSW, it’ll be quicker to redo it from scratches like GWE, rather trying to update it. Maybe later we’ll have a remake of that route with an extension, who knows.
There is a modder in the Train Sim Community community working on a mod bringing the route up to the current day including OHLE and extending it to Gilroy.
It would be a complete rebuild, not just a simple update. The route is really old, so it would have to be remade anyway
Yes, why not, from all I heard, well, it's not only a thin wire above the track. Some stations were relocated/rebuild (South SF, I think f. e.), travel times less than an hour, new speed limits (up to 110 mph), a complete new timetable with a train running up to every quarter of an hour...and I guess locals can add quite a couple of things more. So, all in all, it seems to be quite a different feeling driving down there...
Given the current situation, At most the route would extend to Tamien Station, not sure if DTG would commit the extra 28 miles to Gilroy. The F40ph and Gallery Cars would be cut as Caltrain is retiring those, but with the Mp36 being a loco DLC, the Stadler EMUs and probably the Union Pacific GP38-2 would be the only 2 locos that comes with the route. Which means the lower half of the route would be useless without owning the MP36, unless DTG adds the Hollister Branch. (Which adds more miles to the 28 miles.)
The best solution might be DB Baureihe 4110 Caltrain paint MP15DC although there has to be a version that has dual couplers for the DB Baureihe 4110 caltrain and AAR coupler for MP36 Baby Bullet which itself will come standard with the route and GP38-2 DLC GP22ECO that way it solves the issue. If it went down to Gilroy 80 miles on the Caltrain and 101 fwy you are going to need Union Pacific Sherman Hill Cane Creek for those Amtrak ALC-42 Superliners
Why not? It could just be there as scenery since it exists irl to represent modern day or simply just futureproofing it for something later down the line. You can't run electric trains after all without a power source
