Unlike others I WOULD recommend Sand Patch as from Mt Pleasnt its only about an hour away. One thing to remember here is that Sundays are pretty dead, especially in the afternoon since not as many of the mines load on weekends. This is maybe 45 minutes from Mt Pleasant. The area is a gem for creative photography and easy to shoot. The scenic highlight is 10000 ton coal drags running up the mile long street trackage in downtown West Brownsville. West Brownsville PA on the former Monongahela Railroad hosts a steady parade of NS and CSX coal traffic from the coalfields near Waynesburg. If so, I'd make a few suggestions in addition to the ones listed above: Like others, I'm assuming you mean Mt Pleasant PA about 35 miles east/southeast of Pittsburgh. If it's cold out, you can sit in the floor to cieling glass enclosed sitting room there. I really can't think of anything better than a night at Toms, sitting on the front porch watching the parade of trains roll by, or sitting out on the deck at Bridgeview watching them cross Rockville. If your schedule allows, stay a night at the Bridgeview B&B there. Sandpatch just doesn't have the traffic to support the side trip down there. Someone suggested Sandpatch, and normally I would too, but given your time limit, I would suggest you go instead out to Harrisburg and view NS crossing the ancient Rockville Bridge. From the bridge there, you look west at the 3 mile long straight away or from the east, you get views of trains rounding the long sweeping curve. Perhaps one of the best places to watch and photograpgh the trains on the mountain. I could easily tell you to spend a day railfanning around the Cresson / Altoona area, but you only have 3 days for your entire trip, so aside from Horseshoe I have to strongly suggest a few hours at Cassandra, a few miles west of Cresson. Kind of a requirement for railfanning in that area, it's on page 364 of your railfanning manuel. You should try and spend a night there if possible. Last edited by jrfolco July 20th, 2020 at 12:36 PM.If you have not done so already, check with Tom at the Station Inn () in Cresson, a few miles from Horseshoe. The route is on the DLS under jrfolco or kuid 73500.īelow are images of the route and the Baltimore area. Averaging 50 mph, it would take 22 hours to run all of the entire main lines. It took me 8 years over an 11 year time frame to build the route.
By opening the route in 'Content Manager/Show in Explorer', you can access and download 2 TrainzMap JPEGs of the route. The route has 11,605 baseboards, and covers 2,322 square miles. It includes the entire Western Maryland RR as it existed in 1975 when it was merged into the Chessie System. This route is mainly the B&O from Baltimore MD to Grafton WV, and the Western Maryland from Baltimore MD to Webster Springs WV, with branches from Cumberland MD to Connellsville Pa, and Elkins WV to Durbin WV. The route includes the original Cumberland to Connellsville, and the Western Maryland Thomas Sub which were merged to form the WM & B&O Mega Route, and the Cumberland to Harpers Ferry, and Harpers Ferry to Baltimore routes which were merged to form the Baltimore to Cumberland Mega Route. The Baltimore to Connellsville & West Mega Route is a result of the merging of the WM & B&O Mega Route with the Baltimore to Cumberland Mega Route.
With that said, I have one route that takes me about 6 hours to drive if the AI will allow me to without doing the AI antics that they seem to enjoy when we drive or do something else on the route at the same time. This is very important if your routes are huge. Merging does work, but you need to keep an eye on the memory and should plan on increasing the virtual memory (page file) as big as you can to accommodate the merge. But it would not hurt to at least give it a try.The old broken track issue doesn't seem to occur any longer and neither do the springy splines that ended up going off into space. Apart from that a more minor issue would be that names to objects such as signs may not transfer and thus show up blank. Of course I am speaking from experience with TS12 and I have not had the need to do this in TRS19, but I remember in TS12 there were situations where tracks connecting to industries on the route after merging would detach and you would have to reattach the tracks manually. The only problem with merging routes is that it can cause some unexpected errors.