L&N(CSX) Knoxville Division+

[landnrailroader]

In the next few weeks, I plan to release to "incomplete" the Knoxville Division of the L&N which will also have several Southern routes. Some of the former are now abandoned and some of the SR routes have gone to R. J. Corman and one abandoned route has been done as it was in 1967-1993 so that an activity involving a unit train can be done. There will be no interactives except mileposts. Signals on the L&N lines would be covered well if searchlite signals (US&S Type) were used with the L&N scripts that Travis Ebner has done. I finally figured out which of his passive grade crossing signage would be correct but I leave it up to someone else to figure out the active ones, for which I have placed a bungalow with the correct name on it. Likewise bungalows for control points. Lastly I plan to provide a line diagram with the route, a pdf file, showing what is there. Finally all road crossings with active protection that existed in the original issue a few years back, still will have the flashers present just as a visual marker and those should be deleted as I don't think those old items will work with ORTS or TSRE.

Jerry

[Jdark34]

awesome jerry

[landnrailroader]

Well, Jdark34, I know where Alexander City is. I grew up in Nashville, TN and when I worked for the SR, 1965-1978, I tested just about all SR lines in Alabama. Now at 87, my good friend Frank, age 91 is a former L&N dispatcher. He claims he could not have done his job without me being in the CSX signal department, but my job was to manage the CAD system so the signal designers could do better----. I realized that in my early attempt at the Hook & Eye line, where I included 5 miles or so of the Atlanta Div. south of Etowah, TN, I made a mistake in alighnment, so I am fixing that. I like to extend routes 4-5 miles beyond the "end" points, so trains can be "staged" there in activities.

Jerry