Train Sim World 3 Navajo Mine And Railroad

Overview​

The Navajo Mine and Railroad is an electrified coal railroad in New Mexico, making it one of the few fully electrified railroads outside the Northeast Corridor. The route is pretty short at 13.8 miles (22.2 kilometers) long. It is also completely isolated from any other railroads.

Rolling Stock​

The railroad consists of 4 GE E60s, 3 Alco Century 420s, and two trains made up of 21 coal hoppers. The Alco’s are typically used as cab cars, which makes for unique freight push pull trains. However, sometimes they will use there engines incase of a power outage, which would make for a good scenario. The E60s also have unusually tall pantographs as the catenary wires can be quite high up.

Pricing and Conclusion​

Due to the route being quite short and only running 24 times a day, I think the route should be a little cheaper than usual at about 25-30$, while still being more than the Glossop Line due to the new rolling stock. There can also be some extra scenarios to make up for the lack of services, and free roam scenarios like in Cane Creek. Overall, the route is one of the most unique out there, and can make for some interesting runs!

 

That looks different than our usual stuff. I like it.

 

Only issues I'm seeing is gameplay purpose. The railroad only owns a handful of hoppers, so they only have 2 very short trains. (18-22 cars each) And if they run push pull, so that means there is really nothing but A-B runs between the 2 points plus unloading and loading.

There is also very little reference to the railroad on the internet, aside from a handful of photos.





Its also worth noting the railroad also acquired 2 new ET44AC's recently.

 

Nice as it sounds, I don’t think this is going to score very high on the LAMP process. It’s the sort of route that would be great to build if DTG provided us with the editors and a small team doing as freeware.

 

Excellent idea overall but the problem is that you will run across is the LAMP process which is how they make routes for the game. One of these locomotives actually belong to licensed operators in the game the ET44AC.

 

Seems cool from a unique perspective, but it would be very short, and by what you've written, pretty much no traffic or variety?

 

That ET44AC is pretty cool. Pretty sure the railroad used a variation of the Santa Fe's Warbonnet livery. I really want the ET44s in TSW3.

 

That’s why I think the route should be pretty cheap. It’s not the most exciting thing ever, but it’s at least unique

 

I rather have a unique route than a bunch of "exciting" routes that start to feel too much alike.

 

I think even then it would be a difficult sell. Maybe they could bundle several small routes together or something for a cheap price, to get some of these super unique, but short/limited routes in the game.