North Coast Railroad (NCR) & California Western Railroad (CWR), Combined template project in the works Options

[dgionet]

Hello to all,

I have started a new template project. This one will involve two routes. It happened twice before having two routes for a template project. The first was the SLI DRGW Green River with the Potash routes. The second was with the CONN River and Springfield Terminal routes. This one will involve the North Coast Railroad (NCR) route version 3.2 with the California Western Railroad (CWR) Route (available at the Elvas Tower web site). Both have the Willits area in their routes. In addition, for this occasion, I have created new repaints and renumbers for this special project.

The timeframe is set in the first half of the 90's during operation of the NCR

Here they are:

Two Arcata & Mad River 44-tonners in their original numbers 101 & 102:
AMRR 101 & 102 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Two CWR GP9's with their original numbers 65 & 66
CWRR 65 & 66 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Six NCR GP9's (4 original numbers and two fictional recently patched NCR) and Nortwestern Pacific #1922 in its original number (although this real-life repaint has been done later in the 2010's)
North Coast railroad pack by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Two fictional 44-tonners for the Pacific Lumber Company (PalCo) with their original numbers (The real engines are actually 80-tonners)
PalCo 101 & 102 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

I have already finished putting the markers on the NCR 3.2 route, now reaching Ukiah. The previous version (3.1) reached only Willits. The TDB file has been extensively worked and I have ran the entire route to put the markers at the appropriate position and given the proper attributes to each serviceable siding. Once the templates are finished, will start working the same for the CWR route.

Will try to post some shots as it progresses.

[dgionet]

Hi to all,

Here are the first pictures from the first tmplate the NB template. The first leg, from Ukiah to Willits includes some pickups/setouts. It took 2 1/2 hours to complete. The second leg from Willits to Eureka consisted only with a runthrough to check traffic patterns. It took close to five hours. With work included, it will take a lot longer.

The pictures:

Open Rails 2021-04-23 08-57-26 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-23 09-01-36 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-24 02-27-24 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-24 02-29-22 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-24 05-52-08 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-24 07-35-51 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-24 09-39-34 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-25 07-43-17 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-25 07-58-11 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

Open Rails 2021-04-25 08-04-43 by Denis Gionet, sur Flickr

More later