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[landnrailroader]

Colleagues,

As part of my professional efforts, I get to keep the "trash" that I want, basically my own notes, which are nearly identical to the notes I would take if I was preparing to do a new route -- so---.

The next plan is to do the Nashville Terminal in three stages.

1. Complete all tracks, rolling time back to 1955 as much as possible. Then set a
backup of this aside.

2. Complete all necessary roads and basic scenery, i.e. those dummy roads and road
transfers that I like to use. This route will be released as-is to the masses so it
can be used as is, or as a basis for someone wanting to do the S&NA (North) or
the old Peavine, since I have no plans to do those. It could also be used for a
start on parts of the former Tennessee Central or the Bruceton Sub.

3. Finish the route in great detail, mainly to keep as a reference, but release it as a
finished route which can be used for switching activities etc.

Now the fun part. I found, when I did the RMD-1 that I was able to copy into the
RMD-1, the world tiles that made up ThreeForks, then go in and delete any track connected items and do a rebuild. It worked quite well, and I did the same thing
at DeerLodge when I put together the RMD-3. I want to do 3 of the 5 subdivisions
that radiate out from Nashivlle, and what better way to insure accuracy than to use
the same terminal for all 3, only in this case it is easier, since I am going to use all the terminal, I need only use RouteRiter to make a copy of it and then add new tiles to
that copy. Obviously some scenery will be readjusted when DEMEX is run, but that is the least of my concerns. I will use the 2nd of the three items mentioned above to do this as it will not have any track connected items in it.

J. H. Sullivan
(landnrailroader)

[landnrailroader]

The 3 subdivisions planned are:

Chattanooga, approx: 150 miles from Nashville to downtown Chattanooga

Henderson, approx: 150 miles from Nashville to Evansville, IN

Mainline, approx: 175 miles from Nashville to Louisville - this is my favorite as my
Uncle was a T&E employee, retiring in 1958 with 51 years continuous service, the
last 20 in passenger service. He was an engineer -- ENGINEER I.E., NOT A
DRIVER.

Jerry Sullivan

[delamate]

WOW! This should be a fantastic route/routes/accomplishment. I am sure you can do it, and look forward to the finished product(s). Let's see, what was the name of the streamliner that ran from Nashville to Chattanooga?

John DeLamater

[harlank]

Jerry

Great news! I lived in Nashville and have been hoping for years a great route builder such as yourself would take it on.

harlank

[landnrailroader]

I was born and raised in Nashville, born at the old St.Thomas hospital on a rainy Tuesday, Jan. 24, 1939 after my mother was in labor (she says) for 60 hours. If so, I was born late but have been early ever since as my wife will willingly attest. My first remembrance of trains was that when piddling in my sandbox at the corner of Westwood and Natchez Trace, I could see trains, steam of course, crossing the trestle that is now under I-440. This was the old TC Belt Line. Later when I was around 3, I was handed up to my Uncle on his engine at the Union Station one night and when the fireman opened the butterflys, my dad told me that that was hell, where I would go, if I was bad. Not good theology, especially since among my exploits was, learning, some 30+ years later how to fire and run a steam locomotive (Southern 4501). In 1943, we moved to a new home (new for us) on Primrose Dr., and it was high on a hillside. I could look down sorta in the valley and see the TC trains struggling up the hill toward Hillsboro Rd. This is all under I-440 now. And then most of my formative years from 1944 to 1958 we lived on W.Linden Ave. in a stone English style house built in 1927 by a Vanderbilt Prof. I believe it is now a professional office of some kind, but the house on Natchez TRace and it, still stand. I haven't been by the Primrose location, but I assume it still stands as well.

Now the question. All three routes had a streamliner after 1940, and the Mainline had three very famous passenger trains.

Henderson Sub. & Chattanooga Sub. - DixieFlagler, later NewDixieLand. There was also
the Georgian and the DixieFlyer.

Mainline Sub. SouthWind, Hummingbird, PanAmerican

And each of the subs. had lessor known passenger trains as well. I chose the era of 1955 because passenger trains were still numerous and CTC (now called TCS) was installed on all three. Henderson & Chattanooga by the mid-40s, Mainline about 1953. Of course my data shows the Henderson as it was improved as part of the Chicago-Florida corridor a few years back, and many of the original signals have been changed to the darth vader variety.
The Chattanooga Sub. is also the former NC&St.L, so maybe somebody will conjur up a "Stripe" (4-8-4) to pull the Flagler. This was routinely done in the 40s, and once or twice in the early 50s, but the N&C and we called it, was all diesel by 1953 or so. The NC&St.L diesels that pulled the train were F-3s and only the "B" units had steam generators, so the usual engine consist was A-B, or A-B-A in the winter when the consist was often 15 cars or so. Remember that a pusher district exists from Cowan to Cumberland Mtn. Tunnel, and from Tantallon to the tunnel. There is also a stiff grade over
Raccoon Mtn. My biggest problem would be creating a reasonable looking Nashville Station and I would hope somebody will tackle that job that is a better structures modeler than I. A streamlined 4-6-2 would be nice as both the SouthWind and the Flagler used those on the L&N until the late 40s.

It would also be correct to put a NP dome in the consist of the SouthWind, which by the 50s was pretty much a conglomerate of Pennsy, ACL, L&N, and some FEC equipment. In several winters between 1958 and 1971, a NP dome was leased and put in the consist of the SouthWind. These cars came off the NorthCoast Limited and were not repainted.

J. H. Sullivan
(landnrailroader)

[Coonskin]

ENGINEER I.E., NOT A DRIVER.

Nice try Jerry... but doubt you'll make a dent on the spreading use here of the term "Driver" for US Engineers.