Kategorie:The Cajon Pass Route - High Desert Rails Edition

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The Cajon Pass Route - High Desert Rails Edition is a 258 mile add-on route for use with Microsoft® Train Simulator.

The Santa Fe Railway was the first railroad to use Cajon Pass as its entry point into the Los Angeles area. The railway completed its second line, the eastward track, which has a ruling grade of 3% back in 1913.

Things on the hill have pretty much remained unchanged untill the 1970s at which time with the advent of longer freight cars like the 89-foot piggy back and 89-foot autorack cars Santa Fe had to make a major line change up at Summit to accommodate the longer freight cars. So the mainline was lowered about 50 feet, a sharp 10 degree curve was eliminated, and the old track alignment was straightened out.

Southern Pacific came onto the scene in 1966 with the construction of the "Palmdale Cutoff" which gave that railroad a less congested route into West Colton and the greater Los Angeles basin from northern California.

This 90s version of our Cajon Pass train simulator add-on has well over 258 miles of accurate grades, prototype signaled mainlines, junctions, yards, stations, sidings, industrial spurs, realistic scenery, and natural terrain with beautiful distant mountains. And we included three famous railroad subdivisions, including the "Palmdale Cutoff"

BNSF Cajon Subdivision - Barstow to San Bernardino - 82 miles.
BNSF Mojave Subdivision - Valley Junction to BNSF Jct. at Mojave - 65 miles.
Union Pacific Mojave Subdivision - West Colton to Mojave - 112 miles.

There are over 15 new locomotives and trainsets, complete with 3 new cabviews, and sounds interiors, that are included in this addon as well. Here are some of them;

Union Pacific SD70Ms (modified in Build America liveries)
Union Pacific SD70Ms (unmodified)
Southern Pacific SD70Ms
Union Pacific GP20s
Cargill GP9
Southern Pacific GP20s
Cargill GP9
Santa Fe SD75Ms
Santa Fe GP20s
BNSF 666 - Amtrak 801 - CSX 52
Dash 9 44CW Skins

And there are over 30 new pieces of rolling stock, including new tank, flat, pig, hopper, ore, box, hi cube, center flow, autorack, gon, reefers, and much, much more.
We also included 28 freight activities that will challenge your skills as a locomotive engineer, and also educate you about the daily operations of these busy southern california subdivisions.

Hwagner 20. Juli 2011