railyard Central

[Anonymous]

does anyone any ideas for a large rail yard?

[Anonymous]

I need some info

[wjstix]

Well, if you mean modelling a large yard, Kalmbach has a book on yards that's good. There are a couple other ones available from other companies, detailing how yards work etc.

[Anonymous]

no i'm talking map view. I have a game that I am playing with my brother. Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006. We are trying to build a route of the Tennessee Central Railway.Any info is greatly appreciated.

[drafterdude]

Have you tried looking in Ghost Railroads of Tennesee by Elmer G. Sulzer? If it will have maps in it if it is like his Ghost Railroads in Ky book. A quick check on Amazon says that the TC is included in it. I don't have this book but in his book about Ky it shows that the TC ran from Hopkinsville south and crossed the L&N between the towns of Oak Grove and Kennedy Ky. The only other info I can give you on the TC is that it ceased operations in 1968 and L&N purchased four RS3s from them. A quick look on Google Earth will give you some idea about the northern terminus.

[underworld]

Try doing an internet search for railyard maps.

underworld

[Anonymous]

I am trying to find a map from the year 1900. So far all we have found was the route. Like where it started and where it stopped, and where they got there coal. We would like to try to get the map of the whole thing.

[KCSfan]

I am trying to find a map from the year 1900. So far all we have found was the route. Like where it started and where it stopped, and where they got there coal. We would like to try to get the map of the whole thing.

I have a 1954 Official Guide which contains a map of the TC but the text is so small many town names are unreadable. Perhaps the following list from the TC timetable of towns served will be of some help to you. Hopkinsville to Nashville is listed as freight only. From Nashville east the towns listed were the scheculed stops of TC passenger trains No. 1 & 2. All intermediate towns are listed as flag stops.

MAINLINE: Hopkinsville - Clarksville - Nashville - Donelson - Green Hill - Martha - Lebanon - Shop Springs - Watertown - North Alexandria - Carthage Junction - Lancaster - Buffalo Valley - Silver Point - Baxter - Double Springs - Cookeville - Algood - Monterey - Mayland - Crossville - Crab Orchard - Rockwood - Emory Gap - Harriman

The following three branches are also shown:

CARTHAGE: Carthage Junction - Carthage

CRAWFORD: Monterey - Crawford - Wilder

OLD HICKORY: Stone River - Old Hickory

I believe the mainline is much the same as it was in 1900. I have no idea about the branches and some additional ones may have been abandoned in the interim prior to 1954. You probably already know that the TC depot in Nashville was located on the edge of downtown on the banks of the Cumberland River. Old US Hwy 41 used to run right by it and as a boy I remember passing by it on more than one occasion and seeing a Tuscan red painted official car complete with a brass railed open observation platform parked at the depot. 

Mark