Hello! For all fans of the Clinchfield route, I have created a map of the Linfield route, in high resolution. Tunnels, overtaking paths, semaphores, speed limits and elevation angle values are accurately marked on it. You can also download the PDF version:
Well this is wonderful. I struggle to get my bearings on this route and if I do a run I want to make sure its somewhere I want to go. The map on the timetable screen is useless. Thank you for these.
This route has a mainline going from Elkhorn in the North, to Dante in the South. Along the way, there are a four spurs or branches, each going up a mountain to a mine. These are (in order North to South): Greenbriar, Moss, McClure and Nora. If you try to play the timetable, you will likely get confused, except for the mainline jobs which are usually full trip from Elkhorn to Dante or back. However, the beauty is in the Journey Mode, one of the best we got for any TSW route. Each journey is a long job, to one of the branches. You set out with a train of empties, drive to a branch, leave empties and take wagons filled with coal, which you then have to take back to the town you started from. Each of the parts starts from the same position you ended the previous part, so best way to do them is in the journey mode order. Part 1, part 2, and so on. That will definitely make sense. When you've completed all the branch journeys and the mainline runs, find a gem of a service called Bertha Coal Loading in the timetable. It is not a scenario, although it is named and plays like one. Highly recommended! P.S. The only way these journeys would have been better was to have some coal loading segments at each mine. Maybe using a local GP38-2.
