by SDCW4300
I am developing a route for the Microsoft Train Simulator on the
Maybrook Line of the New Haven Railroad, from Campbell Hall/ Maybrook
yards to Danbury, CT. This will also include the Beacon Secondary
branch and the Poughkeepsie "Hospital Branch'. The time period
for the initial route will be the 1940's-1950's, but I am also
entertaining the possibility of doing several other versions, which
would be late 60's-early 70's PC and early 1900's CNE/ NH.
In conjunction with this project I will be helping some one work on a
route of the NYC Hudson River Line. His time line is the late 80's
to the present, but I will be working on back dating a copy to the
1940's-50's to connect with the Maybrook Line. So any info on
those would be helpful also, especially around the connection points at
Beacon and Poughkeepsie.
What will be needed over the next months is information, first on track
plans, layouts, sidings, yards and anything else pertaining to laying
out the track work. This information would mostly be for the
1940-50's version, but there is still siding, yard and industry
information needed for the newer and older versions.
While the tracks are being worked on, information for the scenery,
structures (both related and non-related to the railroad), roads,
bridges, tunnels, signals, train types, schedules, consists, and other
supplemental information, will be brought together to help bring it
alive.
This can not be a foot by foot photographic copy of the lines, because
of the limitations of the program. But the main emphasis will be on
getting the track work and signaling as close as possible and fill in as
much surrounding detail as possible after that.
My main area of geographic knowledge is the Beacon area and about 15-20
miles north and south of it, but I moved away back in the 80's so a
lot has happened since I lived there. I figured this would be a great
place to find information; you guys have more information in your heads,
than I'll ever find in reference material alone.
I have been in contact with Laura Smith at the Uconn website and have
some of the Valuation maps for the Maybrook Line coming. The others I
will be accessing from the site during development, but what I'm not
sure of is what may have changed between 1915 and the 1940-50's.
For instance the maps show the old ND&C junction in Hopewell, but it was
gone by the mid 1930's. Are there any such maps available for
the Hudson Line?
I have been and will continue to search the archives for pictures and
info, but if anyone has any other sources of information please let me
know.
Look forward to hearing from some of you.
JT
Maybrook Line of the New Haven Railroad, from Campbell Hall/ Maybrook
yards to Danbury, CT. This will also include the Beacon Secondary
branch and the Poughkeepsie "Hospital Branch'. The time period
for the initial route will be the 1940's-1950's, but I am also
entertaining the possibility of doing several other versions, which
would be late 60's-early 70's PC and early 1900's CNE/ NH.
In conjunction with this project I will be helping some one work on a
route of the NYC Hudson River Line. His time line is the late 80's
to the present, but I will be working on back dating a copy to the
1940's-50's to connect with the Maybrook Line. So any info on
those would be helpful also, especially around the connection points at
Beacon and Poughkeepsie.
What will be needed over the next months is information, first on track
plans, layouts, sidings, yards and anything else pertaining to laying
out the track work. This information would mostly be for the
1940-50's version, but there is still siding, yard and industry
information needed for the newer and older versions.
While the tracks are being worked on, information for the scenery,
structures (both related and non-related to the railroad), roads,
bridges, tunnels, signals, train types, schedules, consists, and other
supplemental information, will be brought together to help bring it
alive.
This can not be a foot by foot photographic copy of the lines, because
of the limitations of the program. But the main emphasis will be on
getting the track work and signaling as close as possible and fill in as
much surrounding detail as possible after that.
My main area of geographic knowledge is the Beacon area and about 15-20
miles north and south of it, but I moved away back in the 80's so a
lot has happened since I lived there. I figured this would be a great
place to find information; you guys have more information in your heads,
than I'll ever find in reference material alone.
I have been in contact with Laura Smith at the Uconn website and have
some of the Valuation maps for the Maybrook Line coming. The others I
will be accessing from the site during development, but what I'm not
sure of is what may have changed between 1915 and the 1940-50's.
For instance the maps show the old ND&C junction in Hopewell, but it was
gone by the mid 1930's. Are there any such maps available for
the Hudson Line?
I have been and will continue to search the archives for pictures and
info, but if anyone has any other sources of information please let me
know.
Look forward to hearing from some of you.
JT
