Once I got past that I was off and running to Cedar Grove, etc. I finally got the ramps south of Ashmont station done which were a bear because I didn't quite get the radiuses right on the ramps to fit the 30d Tram Curve I was planning to use and had to fall back to some dynamic track to get it all to fit.
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Had some free time over the long Presidents Day weekend so I was able to make a lot of progress on the Mattapan Ashmont trolley. Once that is done the area from Central to Mattapan is mostly trees and a few houses so it shouldn't take long to get to Mattapan, maybe by the end of the week. Also only a few roads are in place using dumb roads. I am having some problems building the Milton station, the stairway isn't coming out very well so I still have to go back and finish that. Also Mattapan yard needs some custom poles. It has the cross spans but I still need to add the contact wire itself. I had made some line poles which I placed using the auto gantry placement and that went well, they look good. I intend to make a field trip and get photos of the actual buildings sometime, when the weather is better. I decided I would extend this spur east to connect to the Old Colony so that a freight activity could be run. I have installed scenery as far as Central Ave, including some placeholder buildings for Baker Chocolate so I could put in the NH Milton branch spur. At that time I will also connect the Milton branch in to the Old Colony and scenic that as well - looks like I need a building for the Keystone Camera factory.Ĭontinuing to work on the Mattapan Ashmont trolley line. and the south shore extension as far as the Neponset river, so that I can then do stations and scenery between FC and the tunnel entrance near Andrew. Once I get past FC and get some scenery down in the area, I plan to do Columbia Jct. I also worked on the Shawmut station and started designing Fields Corner. I had originally planned not to do this and just hide the tunnel in the area with scenery but that was not working out. Last night I cut holes in the terrain to deal with the tunnel.
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Aligning them especially on the sloping sections was a pain but it is now done.įirst up is to finish Ashmont and scenic the area around the station. The first step was redoing the tunnel from Ashmont to the Fields Corner portal using some new sections that I made in Sketchup. Since then I have more or less wrapped up the Mattapan Ashmont line and am now back to the Ashmont - Harvard portion. There is so much to do, not sure when I will get back to it.
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This plus the section from Andrew to the portal after Fields Corner are the only sceniced areas in the sim so far. I also started scenicking the Bennett / Eliot yard area including retaining walls and the Stadium station. In the process I also replaced the stock RR style tunnel sections with my own custom tunnels which are closer to a subway line profile. Basically I had made the tunnel much too deep which made the outdoor Bennett/Eliot yard in a canyon where it should be only 6 - 12' from the surface. then double track) even though technically it is incorrect for the 1970's.Īfter a hiatus over the summer I did some more work last fall to redo the whole Cambridge tunnel, Harvard Square and the yard facility. I have added the Old Colony commuter line in its current form (single track to Victory Rd. Adding the South Shore branch required Columbia Junction which was a lot of work. I also added the Milton branch and some industries.
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Since my era is now 1970's that is as far as I plan to go at this time. Last spring I did the trackage for the South Shore branch as far as Quincy. Plus you get burned out easily as much of it can be tedious. I have been working on this project off and on (mostly off) for the year since I last posted.