Prolly gonna get shot down again, but hey go with what ya know. =-) The route has a lot of track (167 miles) but the actual main part is just from Solvay to Geneva is about 50 miles. It is a Class III railway that is mixed use. Not regular passenger services (those are AMTRAK a bit to the north through Lyons on the map) but it does have a lot of seasonal, excursion and event traffic. They do fall leaves tours, Jalloween, Christmas tours, murder mystery tour, etc. There are rail trips they do where people have bought private pullman cars and they hire locomotives to pull them along the route. Heritage trains run on the rails quite a bit. While it's not a regular passenger service, it's (to me) a lot more interesting because it's not just a regular service. Each one is unique. The main part of the route is freight however. They haul about 18,000 car loads a year to a large number of local trackside industries so it's pretty busy. That's generally 10-12 trains a day. These local businesses have a variety of products (unlike CJP, GWE, MML which are mainly just cement and aggregates over and over) Beer, steel, potash, lumber, food, grain, chemicals, salt, etc. These link up to Class I yards at Solvay and Geneva (CSX and Norfolk Southern) The focus on local freight actually makes it a lot easier to create timetables because much of them are irregular and on demand, so they're very flexible. This both make the job of timetables easier as well as adds variety instead of the same few runs over and over, hearing people complain that it's not accurate to the minute. Most of the crossings are level grade through scenic small towns, so it's slower through towns but lots to see for city driving (which seems to happen a lot more here than in Europe), but also some country side runs too. There's a variety of diesel locomotives people might get just for those to layer on other routes, and the rolling stock as I said is varied. I believe they own hundreds of the cars themselves. Some are ones that people have been asking for like SD-38, SD-45, GE B23 (the last one is the GE counterpart to the GP-38 and was very popular in the day, although not featured in other railroad sims for some reason despite there being a ton of them in use still around the country). Others are ones that we have in game like GP-9 and GP-38. It's not a "hilly" map so it's different from most others in North America currently in TSW. It is very scenic though. The Finger Lakes are a big tourist destination and it skirts along a couple of the lakes directly offering nice views. (In Geneva it's really nice and goes right through the middle of town, then up along the water) It mostly follows Route 5&20 which is pretty famous for running through "small town America' with lots of sites like the Womens Rights Museum in Seneca Falls. (Also the town that inspired the town "Bedford Falls" movie It's a Wonderful Life") It passes a lot of these villages up close, not off in the distance. It's a bit like the best parts of many existing maps all in one. The lakeside running of SLS, the freight and town running of SPG and CRR, the heritage/excursions and small town stations of WSR, There are branch lines that could be included or not that offer more, like the line all down Seneca Lake.
