Gentlemen:DRAGON MOUNTAIN PASS RAILWAY - a part of the Dragon Railroad Company empire.After the acquisition of the "Port Ogden & Northern" when Mr James Ward departed to develop his "Version 7" and the renaming of that route to "Dragon Bay", the management of the Dragon Railroad Company made the strategic decision to diversify overseas.The first overseas purchase has been a short line railway in Australia.Since purchasing the "Dragon Mountain Pass Railway", the Dragon Railroad Company has invested heavily in upgrading station areas and attracting industries.This has resulted in a power station, a cement plant, a brewery, a limestone quarry, grain silos, a stock feed mill and a workshop being established in the cities served by the railway. Dr Acme has also set up a research, development and manufacturing facility at a strategic location adjacent to the railway.The Dragon Mountain Pass Railway is now open for business.
Phil Skene
Chief Executive
Dragon Railroad CompanyThis morning (South Australian time) I uploaded a new route in four medium sized files suitable for those still tied to a dial-up modem. An additional small file contains detailed maps of the route in both CorelDRAW and .jpg format.The Dragon Mountain Pass Railway is a fictitious Australian short-line with a Railroad Tycoon atmosphere.It is probably set on the North Coast of New South Wales, somewhere between Sydney and Brisbane (though it could be elsewhere, perhaps in the more undulating regions of Victoria).You may enjoy this route if you agree with two or more of the following:
1 I enjoy Phil Skene's "DragonRail" and "Dragon Bay" routes.
2 At some stage I was totally addicted to Railroad Tycoon and/or Transport Tycoon.
3 I enjoy driving a locomotive through interesting and intense scenery.
4 When sitting in a Dash 9 cab three quarters of the way through a four hour coal haulage task, I ask myself whether it is the time rather than the load that is dragging.
5 My work and my family commitments mean that free time comes in one hour blocks.
6 I subscribe to the philosophy that railroads should carry freight for profit rather than exist for the pleasure of the locomotive engineers.
7 I need somewhere to run my vast collection of MSTS Australian rolling stock.
8 The thought of being the Chief Executive, the General Manager, the dispatcher and the engineer on a short-line railroad appeals to me.This route will provide a few hours diversion from serious 3 x Dash 9 plus 100 hopper 150+ mile Train Simming, and will appeal to those who enjoy driving smaller locomotives with a string of half to a dozen cars through interesting Australian scenery with its typically dry environment populated by eucalyptus trees and wattle bushes.Many will recognize this as a further development of "Bear Mountain Pass". The original Bear Mountain Pass by Larry Mullett Sr was a dumbbell shaped route with stations at both extremities.In my original re-work of this route, I added reversing triangles, major industries (iron & steel, paper, ... ), the high altitude wood chipping area, and modified the station yards. Other authors made further modifications.Larry then revised my version, making additions and both restoring and adding vegetation and foliage.I have once more re-worked this superb route, adding further industries to increase the operational aspects, and easing most of the sharp radius curves.In this version I have endeavored to use Australian scenery and textures to the maximum. The end result is a railway with a good Australian character. You will find, for example, that the predominant ground texture is burnt yellow in spring, summer and autumn, and green in winter, with masses of gum and wattle trees.In Australia it may rain and it may hail, but it (usually) don’t snow. So the Australianisation of the route has also involved modifying the scenery items and ground textures from the MSTS and third-party authors to avoid snow when the "Winter" season is selected in the simulation.
Once again, please consider. You may find it fun.
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