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Route: Tehachapi
The Tehachapi loop is a 3,799 foot long rail circle that was built in 1876 to allow trains to cross the Tehachapi Mountains and travel between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Southbound trains making the loop pass through a tunnel and then complete a tight, counter-clockwise loop, gently climbing 77 feet before crossing back over the tunnel and above themselves.
The Loop conquered a troublesome ridge near the top of the 4,000 foot Tehachapi Summit by keeping the track grade at 2.2%... the maximum that rail firms were willing to make steam engines climb. Southern Pacific Railroad engineer William Hood designed the loop as part of a 16 mile mountain track segment that included 18 tunnels totaling 8,240 feet in length. Hood's feat is observed everywhere in Tehachapi, located 115 miles north of Los Angeles in Kern County. About 3,000 laborers from Canton, China constructed the tracks. They were paid $26 a month and used 500 one horse carts on the project.
TPR's Tehachapi Route is 118 baseboards in length and took approximately six months to complete.
Jan 2003
Route: Marias Pass Second Edition
· The BNSF Hi-Line route known as “Marias Pass” from Shelby (milepost 1062) to Whitefish (milepost 1219) plus the Kalispell branch line and the both Sweetgrass trunks in Montana. More than 200 miles of tracks.
· DEM based terrain
· Original track layout including all sidings and turnouts
· All station depots, bridges and other typical objects modeled after the prototypes
· All passenger stations and a lot of new interactive industries
· New rolling stock included (e.g. Superliner coach (new), grain cars, alumina transport cars, locos etc. - all stuff you need servicing the included industries.)
· The complete custom content is included on the CD. No additional DL necessary.
· 10 exciting sessions included on the CD. The sessions represents a big variety of prototypically reproduced railroad operations and will keep you busy for many hours.
· Additional sessions available to download. (Some additional payware required.)
Updated: Jul 22 2008
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Route: Amtrak Pacific Surfliner
Welcome to the West Coast! This is the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner route. This route runs from Los Angeles to San Diego, California. This route includes the line from Los Angeles Union Station, thru Anaheim and along the Pacific Coast to Oceanside, California. This route also is owned by BNSF/ Santa Fe and Union Pacific/ Southern Pacific have trackage rights on this line from Commerce to Fullerton. There is the Los Angeles River, Hobart Intermodal Terminal, Commerce Yard, Redondo Flyover, Redondo Shops, 8th Street and 4th Street Yard. This route also is used by Metrolink to Oceanside. There is CP College in Anaheim, Kimberly Avenue Industrial Lead, and Anaheim Stadium. In Oceanside, there is the small Hertz Yard for Chemical Trains to the Oceanside Chemical Plant.
Session: Hobart Hazards
Good morning! It's 9:05 in the morning and your doing the morning work at Hobart Intermodal Terminal. As we speak, a train is coming from the Port of Long Beach and coming into Hobart and will un-hook it's cars. Take the loaded cars to the unloading area where you currently are. Then return to the terminal and wait for a second train from the Port of Los Angeles to drop-off it's cars and take those to the unloading area, too. Stay-off the main line as much as you can to avoid Metrolink and Amtrak coming in/out of Union Station. Once both switch jobs are done, return to the unloading area where you started from and you are done. Get going!
Note: Requires USTrainz.com's 50ft American and Western boxcar packs, 60ft KELX and UP Boxcars, UPY MP15, and ATSF GP60s, VMD's BNSF GP38-2 Pack, and ProTrainz.com's BNSF AC4400CW Pack.
Session: Cross-Town Switchback
Good afternoon! You are running a daily local out of Commerce Yard and back. You need to head to Norwalk's industrial area to do some work. On the way, you will need to drop-off the hopper on the Montebello industrial wye and continue. You will be diverted to the old Norwalk industrial track where you will drop-off all your cars on the 'escape track' and drop-off the tanker car on the “Old Lowes Lot”. Then, return your locos back to Commerce Yard and your done. There is rain in the L.A. Basin today so it will be slick out there. Traffic is light and a Metrolink train shouldn't be around for another hour. Note: Always apply brakes on the railcars (A key) when you un-couple them. Good luck!
Note: Requires USTrainz.com's 50ft American and Western boxcar packs, 60ft KELX and UP Boxcars, UPY MP15, and ATSF GP60s, VMD's BNSF GP38-2 Pack, and ProTrainz.com's BNSF AC4400CW Pack.
Session: A Day In Oceanside
Good afternoon! You are currently in front of CP College in Anaheim. You are taking the weekly LA257 to Oceanside's Hertz Yard. On the way to Oceanside, you will need to stop at Laguna Niguel Station and wait for an Amtrak Train to pass, then continue. In Oceanside, stop in Hertz Yard where the Chemical Plant Switcher (Borrowed UP MP15) will come. Un-hook your cars and switch to the UP MP15, switch around the plant to unload all the tanker cars and bring them back to Hertz Yard on the mainline track. Unhook the tanker cars, hop back onto the ATSF GP60s and hook-on to the tankers and return to CP College where you started and then you are done. Watch out for Amtrak traffic. Be careful, and get going!
Note: Requires USTrainz.com's 50ft American and Western boxcar packs, 60ft KELX and UP Boxcars, UPY MP15, and ATSF GP60s, VMD's BNSF GP38-2 Pack, and ProTrainz.com's BNSF AC4400CW Pack.
Posted on DLS: Jul 17 2007
Hosted by permission from the author, Jul 20 2007.
Route: Route 66
This is well-designed fictional route that nicely represents railroading in the American West. There are 3 major city centers set in a “T” shaped configuration. Miles and miles of track offer plenty of opportunity for running trains. There is independent freight and high-speed passenger rail systems with lots of industries and stations. The route is landscaped heavily and looks great, but users with slower computers or low-end video cards may problems achieving acceptable frame rates.
This route is designed for TRS2004, but TRS2006 users can still enjoy! When opening in TRS2006, a few tips are in order… You will receive an error about Station Scripts, this is non-fatal. Attempting to run the included session will result in TRS that hasn’t crashed, but doesn’t work either. I recommend opening the route in Surveyor first, and deleting the missing assets. Some re-work will be required to make the passenger stations function correctly.
Though some work is necessary to run in TRS2006, the end result is well worth it… It’s a great route!
Posted on DLS: Aug 15 2007
Hosted by permission from the author, Aug 15 2007.
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Route: Emma Yard
A beautiful fictional route dedicated to the author’s 11 month old daughter. The expert landscaping feels right for either USA or European application and has many features:
· 16 Baseboards
· 12 Receiving tracks
· 5 Departure tracks
· 12 Sorting tracks
· 17 Private tracks
· 10 Local tracks
· 56 Hump tracks, with fully working retarders
· 2 fully working humps
· Engine facility
· Track maintenance facility
· Turntables
· Scale
· 5 junctions for future connection. 2 main and 3 branch.
· Each track has a named trackmark, for easy sorting, etc.
Hosted by permission from the author, Feb 04 2008.
Version: TRS2006 Freeware 11.22mb
Author: Caddylars
Credit: GAURC Team Member