SouthPine Railroad Projects – Overview
While I do not consider myself to be an accomplished route builder in “Trainz”, when I first started my journey in this simulator and discovered surveyor, like many other creators I had a vision of creating that one massive route that would be as prototypical as I or anyone could possibly imagine. Those who have been in the community for a while may remember a creator called Paul Haglund (fishlipsatwork), Paul was well known for creating DEM terrain maps and I decided to stitch some together to make the basis of my “Ultimate” route, I actually think from memory that I may have joined four (4) of his DEM maps together.
With just a little more experience it became very evident that the size of this route was far beyond my capabilities, I think it would be almost impossible for a group of route builders to complete. I did however manage to populate the complete length of the route with dual track running the complete length on a trip that takes almost 7 hours real time to complete.
That said I do enjoy route building and getting to set up sessions in such a way that trains can run in a relatively prototypical manner under AI conditions, and of course I am an asset creator as well and having routes that I am building that can double as test beds for my assets just makes sense to me. So below you will find a list of the current routes I am working on, I will also be providing more detailed separate pages for each route.
Current Route List
SouthPine Valley 1.2.1.0
Layout Size:
36 Base boards 12×3
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine Valley series of routes is based on the original TRS2004 route “Highland Valley” created by Chuck (CeeBee) Barkman
Completion Level:
80% – This route is being updated and re-released and currently has one (1) available session
- Release 85%
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 100%
- Texturing 100%
- Trees and Vegetation 50%
SouthPine Valley 2.0.1.0
Layout Size:
179 Base boards 25×7 + 4 boards
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine Valley series of routes is based on the original TRS2004 route “Highland Valley” created by Chuck (CeeBee) Barkman
Completion Level:
75% – This route is scheduled for release in mid to late 2023, and will currently have four (4) available sessions.
- Release 90%
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 90%
- Texturing 95%
- Trees and Vegetation 75%
SouthPine Valley 3.0.1.0
Layout Size:
686 Base boards 49×14
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine Valley series of routes is based on the original TRS2004 route “Highland Valley” created by Chuck (CeeBee) Barkman
Completion Level:
25% – This route is scheduled for release sometime late in 2024.
- Release 25%
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 0%
- Texturing 0%
- Trees and Vegetation 0%
SouthPine River
Layout Size:
140 Base Boards
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine River route is based heavily on the original TRS2004 route “Robe River Iron” created by Bruce Kennewell (3801), with a large amount of modification and some major additions.
Completion Level:
85% – This route is scheduled for release in mid to late 2023, and will currently have one (1) available session.
- Release 85%
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 90%
- Texturing 100%
- Trees and Vegetation 50%
SouthPine Granger
Layout Size:
Base board count coming……
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine Granger route is based heavily on the original 2004 route “Watseka & Kankakee Railroad” created by George Fisher (gfisher)
Completion Level:
55% – This route is currently not scheduled for release. After importing the route into TRS22 there were some errors caused by the number of trackmarks I had used. Until I find the solution to these errors I will not consider releasing the route.
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 90%
- Texturing 40%
- Trees and Vegetation 10%
SouthPine Hump Yard Stage 1
Layout Size:
25 Base Boards (Module)
Layout Basis:
The SouthPine Hump Yard Stage 1 is a freelanced route that is designed to be used as a module for a larger route. The hump yard itself has an 84 track bowl that actually works as 2 x 42 track separate yards, with two feeder tracks pushing rolling stock over two individual humps.
Completion Level:
85% – This route is currently not scheduled for release before 2024, when it is released it will probably only have one (1) available session.
- Terrain 100%
- Trackwork 90%
- Texturing 100%
- Trees and Vegetation 50%
SouthPine Railroad FV-2.0.1.0
Layout Size:
Way to many base boards to count.
Layout Basis:
Those who have been in the community for a while may remember a creator called Paul Haglund (fishlipsatwork), Paul was well known for creating DEM terrain maps and I decided to stitch some together to make the basis of my “Ultimate” route, I actually think from memory that I may have joined four (4) of his DEM maps together.
Completion Level:
35% – This route is currently not scheduled for release.
- Terrain 90%
- Trackwork 75%
- Texturing 5%
- Trees and Vegetation 5%
- Industries 10%