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kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-18-01, 08:32 AM (EST) "What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I am aware of a couple of routes being developed for the American South, but I'm sure there's much going on that we don't know about. Also, how about locomotives and rolling stock for southern lines? I see what's been posted, but I'm interested in hearing about what's being developed.I am a Georgian and would love to see the Southern, Central of Georgia, Seabord, ACL, Georgia RR, A&WP, L&N, and NC&StL lines represented in terms of routes and equipment. The old state-owned Western and Atlantic mainline from Atlanta to Chattanooga is being developed, according to a posting on this site, as well as the SCL project in Florida. Who else is out there? What are you working on?Our minority status as Southerners interested in our region's railroads once again seems to mean that we will be overwhelmed by a surplus of Northeastern and Western U.S. product development while we dream of running CG "Big Apples", Southern PS4s, and the like rolling down their home roads! Southerners, let your voices be heard! Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Claude350 Dec-18-01 1 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kinnamon Dec-18-01 2 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Dokkensound Dec-18-01 3 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Hawk Dec-18-01 4 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kinnamon Dec-18-01 5 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Jitny Dec-19-01 11 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kinnamon Dec-19-01 13 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... CactusBoy Dec-18-01 8 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... fixin2 Dec-18-01 6 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... rocketmorton Dec-18-01 7 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kinnamon Dec-19-01 9 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... rdamon Dec-19-01 10 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Hawk Dec-20-01 16 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... ejoiner Dec-20-01 17 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Hawk Dec-20-01 18 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... fixin2 Dec-19-01 15 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... svante Dec-19-01 12 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... stationmaster Dec-19-01 14 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... Dokkensound Dec-21-01 19 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kyleh24 Dec-21-01 20 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... rdamon Dec-21-01 21 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... kinnamon Dec-21-01 23 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... GTJD Dec-21-01 22 RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Rout... SD40T_2 Dec-21-01 24

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Claude350 (93 posts)
Dec-18-01, 08:36 AM (EST) 1. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Well put.I'm here in Savannah and would love to see some of this area modelled.CSX and Norfolk Southern is here.Sooo much railroading.CSX tracks run across from my house.Maybe one day we'll get that wish.I tried to do a route but keep running into too many problems.... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-18-01, 11:04 AM (EST) 2. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Savannah would be a very interesting location to model for MSTS! S&A, CG, ACL, SAL!!! Switching along the Savannah River! If I were more capable with the route editor, I'd give it a go, but that thing stumps me.Lee Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Dokkensound (235 posts)
Dec-18-01, 05:51 PM (EST) 3. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" There was a guy doing the Gainsville Midland Road. It runs from Gainsville over to Athens. Connects with NS and is now run by CSX (former SAL) out of Athens. Havent heard any updates for awhile. I hope to do the CSX Abbeville Sub but the Train Artisan work doesn't leave alot of time to play with route editor.
R. Easterday (DokkenSound)
"But these go to "11""
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Hawk (263 posts)
Dec-18-01, 06:06 PM (EST) 4. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I live on Lake Allatoona and I'm slowly working on the CSX line from Atlanta to Chattanooga. I'm using DEM data and still trying to get things coordinated.
I read in the locamotive design forum that somebody is working on The General.
I might try to make a pre-'40's and a post-'40's version.
It's slow going for me, because this stuff is all new. I still haven't figured out the "MarkMaker" program, but I'm working on it.
Hopefully, I'll have something to show in a week or two.
Later,
Hawk
"And it comes to be, that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way."
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kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-18-01, 06:46 PM (EST) 5. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" The GM would be great, especially if we could get someone interested in developing a decapod for MSTS. Let's keep the discussion of southeastern and Georgia routes and equipment going. While I may not have the skills to create, I can certainly support those who do with my knowledge of railroading in the area and my collections of books, etc. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Jitny (89 posts)
Dec-19-01, 10:15 AM (EST) 11. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Hey KinnamonI am very interested in doing South AL in the pre-40's around the Mobile area, especially the M&O, forerunner to the GM&O, including the state docks freight with a branch line to the gulf mostly for freight and for seafood and passenger service to Bayou La Batre, Coden.Do you have info and books on this area?
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>Let's keep the discussion of southeastern
>and Georgia routes and equipment
>going. While I may not
>have the skills to create,
>I can certainly support those
>who do with my knowledge
>of railroading in the area
>and my collections of books,
>etc.
Regards
Bob
Mobile AL
M&O,GM&O,CSX,IC,SOUTHERN,BNSF,L&N

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kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-19-01, 10:40 AM (EST) 13. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" The only book I have that might be of use would be a general book on the railroads of Alabama. I don't have any MO or GMO stuff. Sounds like an interesting area to model! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
CactusBoy (367 posts)
Dec-18-01, 11:36 PM (EST) 8. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Savannah? Cool...i'm here in Vidalia. Always wondered if someone would like to Do Vidalia back in the twenties. (We had a HUGE yard back then and a good sized engine house...the remnats are still visible) Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
fixin2 (19 posts)
Dec-18-01, 10:02 PM (EST) 6. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" yes sir, thats what i'm lookin for, some A&WP, ACL, Georgia RR repaints of 40 ft boxes or any car out of the 50's. Have enocells CofG 40ft box renumbered to believe its 6 road numbers now, a VGN box to 5 road numbers and a RFP box to several road numbers.
as Charlie Daniels said..... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
rocketmorton (28 posts)
Dec-18-01, 10:57 PM (EST) 7. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I am working on (albeit very slowly) the murphy branch line in the mountains of north carolina, between asheville and the tennessee border. I just started working with the DEM's again after a long time away.I am racing my father, who is modeling parts of the same line in N scale. We'll see wins! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-19-01, 08:40 AM (EST) 9. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Great to hear from all of you! I knew there were some fellow Southerners lurking about! Perhaps in the future we will have enough interest to develop an MSTS site/list for those of us interested in the railroads of the Southern U.S. I have posted a request for Train Artisan to do the SR PS-4 and a Crescent set to add to their outstanding roster of equipment, and I'm pleased to report that one of the team members expressed interest in the idea. We'll see what comes of it! It'll most likely be lower on their list than the SP Daylight set, but we can always hope.He also inquired about the Southern's Mountain types, and I promptly replied with an excerpt from Prince's book on the USRA TS-1s. He was interested in their livery! Perhaps we'll see some SR repaints of their upcoming Mountains.BTW, where are the CG boxcars mentioned in one of the posts? Enocell? I have seen in the files the "blimp" or "football" car, as a 40ft. car though, but I have not seen any other CG equipment. Am I unaware of another download site, or was this private issue stuff?Thanks,
Lee
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rdamon (60 posts)
Dec-19-01, 09:13 AM (EST) 10. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Rob,
Looks like we may be ready for another GA-MSTS outing!!!Robert - I didn't think they would let you post anywhere other than the sound fourm. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Hawk (263 posts)
Dec-20-01, 05:07 AM (EST) 16. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" LAST EDITED ON Dec-20-01 AT 05:19 AM (EST)Rob, Robert-I'm ready for another outing.
Bill, Marietta, are you still with us?
Glenn, you still here?
Let's see if we can work something out for after the New Year.
Anyone else in Georgia is welcomed to join us, if we can get things together.
Hawk
"And it comes to be, that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way."
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ejoiner (244 posts)
Dec-20-01, 12:40 PM (EST) 17. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I live in Acworth... Eric Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Hawk (263 posts)
Dec-20-01, 06:11 PM (EST) 18. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I live near Emerson, on the lake.
Hawk
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fixin2 (19 posts)
Dec-19-01, 05:23 PM (EST) 15. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?"
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>BTW, where are the CG boxcars mentioned in one of the
>posts? Enocell? I have seen in the files the "blimp"
>or "football" car, as a 40ft. car though, but I
>have not seen any other CG equipment. Am I unaware
>of another download site, or was this private issue stuff?
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>the CofG 40ft box refered to is the football box, repainted by 'enocell' and posted to train-sim in august. just renumbered his box into half a dozen or so different reporting numbers of the same box for my own use. also did the same for the VGN box and RFP box. sorry about the confusion. my first experiences with a photo editor, but am learning.... well some might call it learning. its a challenge when i'm about as bright around this repainting stuff as a 7 watt bulb. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
svante (233 posts)
Dec-19-01, 10:31 AM (EST) 12. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Well, you could do what other minorities have done, and start modelling and route construction yourself....I'm a Swede and there's only about 9 million of us yet we have a load of Swedish MSTS stuff including a mighty fine route that will soon be released. While other more populous nations have no MSTS stuff of their own at all. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
stationmaster (231 posts)
Dec-19-01, 01:32 PM (EST) 14. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" I left Alabama many years ago for Arizona, but I would still love to have a route that includes my home town - Huntsville. One of the first models that I built for MSTS was the historic depot there (free download at my site).I think there are several people interested in steel mill routes, Birmingham would be a natural.Ron
http://www.railwaystation.com
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Dokkensound (235 posts)
Dec-21-01, 01:49 AM (EST) 19. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Yeah guys, I was waiting till after the holidays to do our next Georgia MSTS meeting. I will tell all you Southern Railroad fans that there will be a very special suprise in the new Train Artisan 4-8-2 package for ya. Along with the Southern Ps-4 Alco's theres one variation I'd love to have, Southern had one of them Streamlined to pull a short section of the Tenneseean. Merry X-mas!!
R. Easterday (DokkenSound)
"But these go to "11""
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kyleh24 (39 posts)
Dec-21-01, 02:14 AM (EST) 20. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Count me in on the meeting. Rob, here's hoping you do the Abbeville Sub. Where are you from? Kyle (Athens) P.S. I have a timetable with the sidings and lengths if you don't have one. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
rdamon (60 posts)
Dec-21-01, 10:46 AM (EST) 21. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" Y'all have a Merry Christmas and enjoy some fruitcake from Klaxton!!! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kinnamon (15 posts)
Dec-21-01, 07:33 PM (EST) 23. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" When will we get to see the new Mountain? I am waiting impatiently! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
GTJD (33 posts)
Dec-21-01, 12:29 PM (EST) 22. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" My first route will be based on the TV show, "The Dukes of Hazzard" All freight diesels will be orange with the Confederate flag displayed on the nose and the back of the long hood. That southern enuff fer ya?just a good ol' boy,
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SD40T_2 (154 posts)
Dec-21-01, 07:42 PM (EST) 24. "RE: What about Southern U.S.A. Routes, etc?" don't forget the 01 on the side/ Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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