CSX Chattanooga mainline and branches

[landnrailroader]

After I completed adding details to the marker file for the Chattanooga Div. I started doing the same for the former Kentucky Div. This is the main line between Cincinnati and Corbin, about 175 miles and there are two branches, one from Paris to Maysville which connects with the C&O at Maysville and a remnant of the Lebanon Branch that ends just past a large rock quarry at Mt. Vernon, KY. This branch has a tunnel that goes right under a intersection on I-75. There are 3 tunnels in the remaining part. At least a fourth was located just west of Mt. Vernon. I need to do some details on the Mainline Sub., Louisville to Nashville. I still have the fleshed out version of the Knoxville Div. almost done and after Eric's comment a few days ago I will put in the mileposts, DEDs, Signals, and Crossings. I could release two versions, one without interactives and one with but if I were going to alter a route with interactives, to protect myself, I would download the route and burn it to a CD or DVD for safekeeping. Then I might remove interactives in an area that might alter the tracks or roads in and the backup would be a means of protection as well as a means to know where things need to be put back after completion of alterations. I need to complete by roughl detailing the Cumberland Valley and Eastern Kentucky Divisions. The only other L&N area that I have only done minimal work on so far is the Henderston Div., 154 miles from Evansville to Nashville which includes the Paradise mine area where coal originated going to Widows Creek which is on the Chattanooga Div. The Dotiki mine is also included which only recently shut down. If anyone wants to do just a short line with heavy details, they can create a new route and copy the world files from the Kentucky Division that cover Paris to Maysville as this is now a shortline independent of CSX. I believe it is called the Trans Kentucky or some such, there was a article about it in TRAINS or RAILFAN and RAILROAD few years back.

landnrailroader

[conductorchris]

Jerry, I've been enjoying reading your personal connection to this route and the memories it has. I was trying to explain this evening to my sweetheart why I like the art of Charlie Hunter who has mastered the look and mood of rust and decay - how many memories that evokes for me. Not for her. Those memories are sometimes presence in the sim and I appreciate and respect the memories that others have encapsulated into memorializing of what once was.

We've never met off line, but I've "known" you virtually for 30 years, I think, first from the "All Aboard Amtrak" email list. I always liked what you had to say and I learned a lot from you, then and now. That email list had a major impact on my, the rail advocacy I did myself and my deeper understanding of rail economics. Thank you.

Christopher

[landnrailroader]

Chris, I thank you for your commentes. Well, I plan to keep on keeping on until God sends me my last Form A & Running orders. I was 86 earlier this year. Today I just got home from attending the 90th birthday of a dear friend, former Chief Dispatcher on the L&N & later CSX. Although essentially blind from AMD, he is otherwise in good health. His daughter brings hime to church on Sundays and we take him to a Bob Evans near our home where she picks him up. He has 3 adult daughters and they did the party at church although the oldest organised it.

Jerry