Trains, Trains, Trains
Trains, Trains, Trains
(139k) Amtrak's southbound
Crescent, led by #818, passing through Norcross, GA, one fine morning.
(150k) Two NS trains lined up
nicely for this shot. On the right is the Duluth local, (described in more detail
in my railfanning notes switching the concrete plant; on
the left is a rail transport train, in motion at perhaps 35mph. I was right proud
to have gotten the shot with them lined up as nicely as they were. <brag, brag>
(110k) This is one of Georgia
Northeastern's locomotives.
(59k) A CSX intermodal train
coming into Smyrna, GA, near Atlanta Rd.
For switching activities (which I tend to think are more challenging and hence more fun), this means that to setout cars into a siding that's accessed through an automatic switch, the activity designer (that's you, again) must reverse a path, take the "other" route into the siding, and reverse again to get back out. This also means that if you're near another siding that the activity user can switch, you need to let the user know which to do first, or you run the risk of having the sim out of skew and unplayable (i.e. red signals, switches set against the player, etc.)
Anyway, in order from west to east, (detouring south from Columbia Falls to highlight Kalispell), here are the maps, (they're also uploaded into the files area on www.train-sim.com ):
Whitefish-west
Whitefish-east
West Columbia Falls
Columbia Falls-wye
Kalispell-north
Kalispell-central
Kalispell-south
Columbia Falls-yard
Conkelly
West Coram
Belton
Red Eagle
Essex-north
Essex-south
(unnamed siding RR-east of Essex)
Blacktail Siding
Balloon track
Bison siding
Glacier Park
Spotted Robe
Browning
Blackfoot
Meriwether
Pardue
Cutbank
Shelby
Or, download the zip file containing all of the maps.
