Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tampa/Winston/Bone Valley - Route Cuts

In the initial release of the Tampa Terminal route for Trainz, in whatever form, be it Payware, Freeware, or built-in, as the future may dictate, a considerable stretch of routing will be cut completely. I am not saying it is the end of it for any of those sections, however. They may be worked on "poco a poco" in the future as expansion packs, obviously merge-able with the current route. The main reason for these is due to low worthwhile train count and lack of interest at the moment. I feel the removal of these areas, temporary or permanent will preserve my interest (and is "necessary and proper").

  • The Brooksville Sub / Clearwater Sub trackage from one full baseboard north of Interstate 4 will be reduced to a portal. One big anti-motivational thing about it is that the Clearwater Sub is only present for about one mile.
  • Bone Valley trackage will be a separate phase of work. However, Valrico to Ridgewood will still be supported in the prime release, Three Post will survive the cut, and Bartow has a possibility of making the cut. All others will be ripped out and expanded in one Bone Valley file. The cut south of Edison is 1 baseboard length while the cut south of Three Post goes one board past the yard. In the most extreme case I may just get rid of 2 boards south of Winston Yard altogether if anyone is interested in taking up the areas.
  • No plans are in place to truncate south of Tampa Terminal, the Port Tampa Lead, any portion of the Auburndale Sub, the east stem of the Carters Sub out of A-Dale, nor Neve. However, if I do not have support for the Downtown Tampa skyline, I will suit myself and cut work west of the Amtrak Station to another phase.
Now, if anyone is interested in taking over the cut areas, or those endangered for cutting, you guys can contact me and I will work out plans to hand you guys the DEMed areas that are cut. 

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