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High Iron Simulations
309 projects across 1 game, 944.2k downloads in total.
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- Cotton Belt Country [GWD323]The St. Louis Southwestern, nicknamed the Cotton Belt, was a Southern Pacific subsidiary that operated 2,300 miles of railroad across America's great plains between St. Louis and Texas. In this scenario, the Adriana County Railroad assumes the role of a Cotton Belt branch line and you are the eng...2.0k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- Boleyn-Bound Coal [GWD193]In this scenario, the superb Majestic Falls route takes the form of a Southern Railway coal line circa 1981. You have been called as engineer of a morning train out of Morgan Yard which will forward coal loads south toward Boleyn. Your power - a trio of Southern Railway EMD SW1500s equipped with...2.0k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Leased Horsepower [GWD128]Norfolk Southern retired its fleet of ex-Southern and ex-Norfolk & Western EMD SD45s by 1988, but since the SD45s had been well maintained, many of the units found work for power pool leasing companies, including EMD Leasing. It is the autumn grain rush and Burlington Northern has leased a group...2.0k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Alcos All The Way [GWD074]You are the engineer of a new three-unit set of Pennsylvania Alco 1,800-hp RS11 road-switchers heading a westbound manifest freight from Altoona to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. There is considerable traffic on the PRR's crossing of the Alleghenies today, but you have a priority consist and should hav...2.0k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- SD45 Steel Haul [GWD126]The year is 1982 and Norfolk Southern has just been created by the merger of Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway. You are an NS engineer, about to make a run with a pair of EMD SD45s still in pre-merger liveries from the steel plant at Massillon to Dover Yard. But before departure, you will ne...2.0k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- UP Overland Mail [GWD223]It is the early 1950s, and you are the engineer of Union Pacific westbound mail train No. 5, ready to depart Cheyenne, Wyoming. With FEF-3 No. 838 - wearing UP's stylish Overland livery - as motive power, you have a consist of nine mail cars plus a rider coach on the rear. The 1.5 percent grades...2.0k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- GN Whitefish Local [GWD115]You are the engineer of Great Northern's Whitefish Local, preparing to make a run eastward on Marias Pass to Belton (West Glacier). Your power is a pair of GN EMD GP9s and you will need to make up your train at Whitefish, make a pickup at Columbia Falls Yard, and keep out of the way of priority t...2.0k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Hammerheads [GWD119]You are the engineer of a Norfolk Southern unit train of crude oil bound for east coast refineries about to make the climb of the Allegheny west slope from Conemaugh Yard in Johnstown to the summit at Gallitzin, Pa. Your power is a quartet of veteran NS EMDs, with a pair of hi-nose SD45s - often...2.0k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Anchorage First Trick [GWD358]Anchorage is the heartbeat of the Alaska Railroad, home to a large yard, shop complex, and extensive lineside industries. You are the engineer of ARR's first trick yard job at Anchorage, and after boarding your power at the locomotive shops, you will have considerable switching duties to perform....2.0k downloadsupdated 9 y ago
- Ghostly Gray [GWD187]It's a foggy, rainy summer afternoon in the Allegheny Mountains, and Norfolk Southern Heritage Fleet GE ES44AC 8025 honoring the Monongahela Railway is leading a coal train off the South Fork Branch of the Horseshoe Curve route. You are the engineer of the unit train and you'll be headed east tow...2.0k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- CSX Hialeah GenSets [GWD239]CSX symbol freight O-722 is a local and switch job based from Hialeah Yard in Miami, Florida. On a summer afternoon, you are the engineer of O-722, ready to go to work at Hialeah Yard, switch the nearby industrial park, then haul some tonnage north on the Miami Subdivision toward Fort Lauderdale....2.0k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Red Eagle Squeeze [GWD101]You are the engineer of a Burlington Northern grain local on the west end of the Hi-Line (Marias Pass) bound for Whitefish Yard. Due to heavy priority traffic, the dispatcher has had to squeeze you into the siding at Red Eagle, and to fit you have split your train between two tracks. The good new...2.0k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- NJ Transit M-O-W [GWD311]In their final years, a number of NJ Transit's veteran F40PH-2CAT diesels were relegated to maintenance-of-way (M-O-W) service. You are the engineer of a NJT ballast train stopped at Rahway and waiting to follow a commuter train down the NJCL as far as Red Bank. You have a pair of F40PH-2CATs to...1.9k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- Fresh Pond Transfer [GWD244]You are the engineer of a CSX transfer job en route from Fresh Pond Yard in Queens to Oak Point in the Bronx. After dropping off your transfer at Oak Point, the yard master will assign you to deliver more tonnage to Hunts Point. Your power is a pair of CSX NRE 3GS-21B "GenSet" diesel locomotives....1.9k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Union Pacific Super Van! [GWD241]One of the Union Pacific's hottest trains in the 1980s was the "Super Van" piggyback bound for Los Angeles. On a summer afternoon in the early 1980s, you are the engineer of the Super Van, ready to make a fast run across the high desert west of Barstow, California. You're momentarily stopped east...1.9k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Southern Pacific Symbol DVROM [GWD272]With the merger of D&RGW into Southern Pacific in 1988, the SP established symbol manifest freight "DVROM" (Denver to Roper Yard in Salt Lake City), which operated on a 24-hour schedule across the length of the ex-D&RGW. As dusk begins to fall on a wintry eve, you have climbed aboard the lead uni...1.9k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- Waterbury Shuttle [GWD242]You are the engineer of Metro-North's first morning shuttle from Waterbury to Bridgeport, Connecticut and return. You have been stopped at Devon Junction awaiting clearance onto the MNCR main line, and will now be proceeding southbound to Bridgeport. After disembarking your southbound passengers...1.9k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- 2-8-0 Maine Excursion [GWD059]Pan Am Railways is running a steam excursion with vintage AT&N 2-8-0 200 hauling five restored Boston & Maine coaches. You're the engineer of the special and will be taking the train from the Portland Transportation Center to Pine Point where the passengers will disembark for lunch at a famous ol...1.9k downloadsupdated 14 y ago
- Seaboard Southbound [GWD246]You are the engineer of Seaboard Coast Line Extra 1837 South, a mixed freight bound from Jacksonville to Miami, Florida. You've taken siding south of Fort Lauderdale to meet a northbound stone train that is approaching on the New River freight line, then you will be bound for Hialeah Yard. Your p...1.9k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Majestic GP30s [GWD254]In the long tradition of American short lines, the Majestic Falls Railroad relies upon second-hand motive power and has just added a veteran pair of ex-Union Pacific EMD GP30s to its roster. With the GP30s as power, you are the engineer of a Majestic Falls local ready to do some switching around...1.9k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Tri-Rail Train P601 [GWD247]Dawn is breaking in South Florida and you are the engineer of the first Tri-Rail southbound commuter run of the day, Train P601 due into Miami Hialeah Market at 5:44 am. As you make your mid-point station stop at Fort Lauderdale, you are running about four minutes late due to a prior delay, but y...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Surfliner Tr. 564, Pt. 3 [GWD332]The growing popularity of Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner services requires Amtrak to often supplement the route's dedicated equipment with standard Superliner equipment and GE Dash 8-32BWH diesels. Such is the case on this Southern California morning as Surfliner Train 564 makes it run from Los Angel...1.8k downloadsupdated 10 y ago
- Delray Local [GWD312]On the Adriana County route, you are the engineer of the Delray Local, preparing to make a run from Delray to One Tree Hill. With a veteran ex-Rock Island second-hand Electro-Motive GP9 as power, you have some switching to do at Delray, and at Montibello, while en route north on a pleasant summer...1.8k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- SP Skyline Mine Empties [GWD277]In the years following the 1988 merger of D&RGW into Southern Pacific, it was common for SP and Rio Grande power to be intermixed on trains crossing Soldier Summit. You are the engineer of a low-priority eastbound empties train bound for Skyline Mine on the Pleasant Valley Branch and have been he...1.8k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- ARR Usibelli Coal! [GWD362]The heaviest tonnage handled on the Alaska Railroad has been unit coal trains operating between the Usibelli coal fields and the port of Seward. You are the engineer of ARR Train 181S, a southbound Usibelli coal train stopped for a meet at Portage. Soon, you'll begin the toughest climb on the ARR...1.8k downloadsupdated 9 y ago
- Surfliner Tr. 564, Pt. 2 [GWD331]The growing popularity of Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner services requires Amtrak to often supplement the route's dedicated equipment with standard Superliner equipment and GE Dash 8-32BWH diesels. Such is the case on this Southern California morning as Surfliner Train 564 makes it run from Los Angel...1.8k downloadsupdated 10 y ago
- Allegheny Autumn [GWD001]As an autumn dusk begins to settle over the Allegheny Mountains, you are the engineer of a set of Baldwin Centipede diesels ready to proceed westbound from Altoona to Johnstown. Your train is a manifest freight and in addition to the Centipedes on the point, you have a pair of EMD F7s as helpers....1.8k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Amtrak's Carl Sandburg [GWD334]Amtrak Trains 381-382, the Carl Sandburg, operate between Chicago and Quincy, Illinois via BNSF trackage and are named after the famed Galesburg, Illinois-born American poet. On a summer morning, you are the engineer of Train 381, preparing to depart Chicago Union Station at 7:35 am via the famed...1.8k downloadsupdated 10 y ago
- Amtrak Northeast Regional 185 [GWD378]Amtrak Train 185 is a New York-Washington weekday Northeast Regional service. You are the engineer of Train 185 with an Amtrak Siemens ACS-64 hauling a seven-car Amfleet consist and are preparing for your 8:10 am departure from New York Penn. Note: Due to signal compatibility issues between the A...1.8k downloadsupdated 8 y ago
- Skykomish Cowls [GWD191]Skykomish, Washington, on the west slope of Stevens Pass, was legendary in the Great Northern and Burlington Northern era as a busy helper station, and in the 1970s and 1980s was a regular haunt of BN's stylish EMD F45 cowl diesels. You are the engineer of BN Train 104, a Seattle-Chicago manifest...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Midnight Falcon [GWD185]At midnight on a snowy, frigid winter eve atop the high plains of Wyoming, you are the engineer of a Union Pacific priority piggyback train bound for Los Angeles. A crew change has just been completed at Cheyenne and you're ready to head west across Sherman Hill. For power you have a quartet of E...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- CSX Coking Coal [GWD181]The Ohio Steel 2 route provides an ideal Midwestern U. S. setting for CSX operations, and in this scenario you are a CSX engineer called for a morning run to deliver a unit train of coking coal from Dover Yard to the steel mill complex at Massillon. Your power is a pair of husky CSX Electro-Motiv...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Alcos and Coal [GWD073]You are the engineer of a pair of Pennsylvania Railroad Alco RS11 road-switchers ready to take a heavy coal train down the Allegheny west slope from the South Fork Branch to Conemaugh Yard in Johnstown. As usual, the railroad is a busy one and the weather is doing no one any favors today. Duratio...1.8k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- CSX Q-453 [GWD262a]CSX symbol train Q-453 is the daily southbound manifest freight operating to Hialeah Yard in Miami, Florida. You are the engineer of Q-453, stopped momentarily at Mangonia Park waiting for a work train to clear the line ahead, then you'll be rolling south on the Miami Subdivision. Your power is a...1.8k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- West Slope F45s [GWD152]You are the engineer of Burlington Northern Train 104, a regularly scheduled Seattle to Chicago manifest freight. You are stopped in the passing siding at Belton (West Glacier) for a meet with hot BN intermodal Train 3, then you will begin the climb of the Marias Pass west slope toward Essex. You...1.8k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Coast Starlight! [GWD393]Amtrak's Coast Starlight makes a journey of 1,377 miles between Los Angeles and Seattle and is an icon of the railroad's long-haul services. You are the engineer of Train 14 - the northbound Coast Starlight - as it makes its way along Union Pacific's famed ex-Southern Pacific Coast Line route. As...1.8k downloadsupdated 8 y ago
- Cut Bank Empties [GWD171]You are the engineer of a BNSF local working out of Shelby, Montana. Your task this afternoon will be to take a train of empty covered hoppers to Cut Bank for grain loading. Your power is a pair of EMD GP38-2 diesels. This scenario was created to serve as the basis of a multi-part tutorial on the...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Branch Line U-Boats [GWD255]Through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, the Seaboard operated a number of routes in pine and pulpwood country, and thus the excellent MC&SA route (available at Steam Workshop) makes an appropriate setting for some Seaboard U-Boat action. As engineer of a Seaboard System branch local, you'll...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- ARR Lumber Drag, Pt. 2 [GWD400]The winter months often see shiploads of lumber arriving at Seward Harbor for transit north to Anchorage and beyond via the Alaska Railroad. You are the engineer of ARR Train 110N and in the first installment of this multi-part scenario you made up your train Seward, then proceeded to Crown Point...1.8k downloadsupdated 8 y ago
- West Slope GP50s [GWD202]The time is shortly after the merger of Southern Pacific into Union Pacific, and you are the engineer of an eastbound UP perishables train climbing the west slope of Donner Pass. Your head-end power - a trio of EMD GP50s - has also come to UP via merger, as they are ex-Chicago & North Western uni...1.8k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Southern Local [GWD127]The Ohio Steel 2 route provides an excellent "generic" line that can be representative of many railroads in the eastern U. S. In this scenario, the line represents a part of the Southern Railway and you are the engineer of a pair of Southern EMD GP9s working a local from Altizer to Dover. You'll...1.7k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Coal for Geneva Steel [GWD287]Rio Grande Train 785 originated in Helper, Utah, and carried coal mined in the Carbon County region west over Soldier Summit for delivery to the massive Geneva Steel plant located south of Salt Lake City, Utah. On a summer evening, you are the engineer of D&RGW Train 785 bound west across the Was...1.7k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- Dash 8s Eastbound, Pt. 2 [GWD213]This is the second installment of a two-part scenario in which you are the engineer of a loaded Norfolk Southern unit grain train making its way eastbound across the Alleghenies on a snowy winter morning. In Part 1, you made the climb from Johnstown to Gallitzin, Pa., and you are now ready to des...1.7k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Wasatch Coal West, Pt. 1 [GWD252]For more than a century, coal was mined in the Wasatch Range of Utah and transported by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Significant amounts of this coal moved west onto the Southern Pacific, and you are the engineer of a D&RGW unit coal train operating westward over SP's Donner Pass lin...1.7k downloadsupdated 11 y ago
- Durban-Bound Coal [GWD200]You are assigned as driver of a Spoornet train carrying coal from the Witbank area coal fields to the port of Durban. Your train has laid over at Danskraal Yard near Ladysmith for a crew change and is now ready to proceed south. Ahead is the undulating profile and often steep grades of the KwaZul...1.7k downloadsupdated 12 y ago
- Fly Ash Empties East [GWD381]While the ex-Monongahela Railway lines are primary about coal-hauling, other traffic does move over the route. An example is trains of fly ash that are transported from the Pittsburgh area for dumping at the closed Blacksville Mine #1 on the Waynesburg Southern. You are the engineer of Norfolk So...1.7k downloadsupdated 8 y ago
- Short Line Steam! [GWD168]In this scenario, GreatNortherner's excellent MC&SA short line steps back in time to the steam era and puts the superb Smokebox AT&N Lima 2-8-0 to work. As the MC&SA engineer, you will be using the Consolidation to take care of switching duties at Camden yard and sawmill, then making a run to Mos...1.7k downloadsupdated 13 y ago
- Bay Pier Duty [GWD368]Union Pacific’s South San Francisco Switcher handles the sprawling bay area pier district and you are the engineer of the switch job. You’ve just arrived at Quint Street Siding and, after receiving permission from the SFBR yard master, will be working the piers, then returning to South San Franci...1.7k downloadsupdated 9 y ago