Norfolk Southern Sterling Heights Secondary In Trainz 22 (WIP) Read Description before Video...

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The North Yard Branch
The North Yard Branch begins at CP-West Detroit mp 2.9 and goes up to CP-North Yard at mp 9.6. It parallels the GTW Shore Line subdivision from CP-Vinewood to Milwaukee Junction, and from there parallels the GTW Mount Clemens Subdivision to Belt Line Junction at roughly milepost 8.5. GTW is intertwined with the North Yard Branch in this area with at-grade crossings at CP-West Detroit, CP-Springworks, CP-Vinewood (Connecting), CP-Beaubien, Milwaukee Junction and CP-Conant (Connecting) in a 5 mile stretch. It is a double track, CWR, CTC stretch of railroad that was once the southern end of Michigan Central's line to Mackinaw City at the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. North Yard itself is between CP-Conant and CP-North Yard, just west of the GTW East Yard in Hamtramck. Between North Yard and Eight Mile Road the territory is largely a panorama of pre-war industrial urban decay. North of Eight Mile Road we have a dingy, crowded, treeless wartime pre-fab urban decay in the city of Warren's south end. Between this peach and Sterling is the post-war industrial section of Macomb County, The Land of the Ranch House. It is populated by many second and third generation immigrants who fled here in the 50's to escape Detroit. The North Yard Branch and Sterling Secondary are the sole remaining trackage of Michigan Central's line to northern Michigan.
The Sterling Secondary
The Sterling Secondary begins at CP-North Yard mp 9.6, where Form D's must be issued for northward movement, and goes up to milepost 19.3, which is the south end of Sterling Yard and is called WS. The line is single track with a long passing siding between North Yard and a location called TM; the main line double track ends back at CP-North Yard. Between TM and WS, the line is single track to about mp 18, where the siding resumes on the east side of the mainline. TM is north of Ten Mile Road and Sherwood Avenue at milepost 14. It used to be at Ten Mile road, hence the moniker TM. There is a switch at Ten Mile road where a passing siding begins, around the Mound Road Yard. NOTE: If you head north on Sherwood from Ten Mile it curves almost immediately and crosses the tracks with the tracks on the west side moving to the East side of Sherwood. About 50 feet north of this crossing is the TM-Yard Limits Signpost. WS is between 15 and 16 Mile Roads at milepost 19.3, the South end of Sterling yard, where Form D's must be issued for southward movement. We don't know what WS stands for, possibly West Sterling, but the Locals called at Sterling are also given WS names, like WDWS-04, or WS-4 for short. TM is at mp 14 and WS is at mp 19.3.
Speed limits are as follows:
CP-NORTH YARD to TM: 15mph
TM to WS: 30mph(I Run the Route at this speed thee entire length)
The Conrail Detroit Shared Asset Area
When CSX and Norfolk Southern carved up Conrail, the two giant railroads needed to preserve competition in certain regions where Conrail's physical plant could not be easily divided. These regions were Northern New Jersey (and New York City), Southern New Jersey (and Philadelphia), and Detroit. Their solution to this problem was the creation of three "Shared Asset Areas" (SAA), where Conrail still exists but in the form of a terminal railroad which is owned by both CSX and NS. The Conrail Detroit SAA, unlike the other two Conrail SAAs on the east coast, is primarily former New York Central System territory (the obvious exception to this is the Lincoln Secondary, which was the Pennsylvania Railroad's entry to the Detroit market). The state of Michigan is a peninsula. Therefore, Detroit is a stub end terminal for most domestic traffic arriving there, much of which is automotive industry related. Detroit is also an international gateway for transcontinental traffic from the western US and Canada to Toronto, Montreal, and the Maritimes. Note that Detroit, MI and Toledo, OH are very close together. Some traffic enters Michigan by way of the Indiana communities of Elkhart and Fort Wayne for NS, Porter for CSX, and especially South Bend for GTW. But Toledo still acts as a funnel for a lot of CSX and NS traffic bound for Southeast Michigan in general, and the Conrail Detroit SAA in particular. All, or at least most, roads lead to Detroit. Here we see Southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio. The lines radiating away from the Detroit area are NS's ex-Wabash Detroit District, NS's ex-Conrail Detroit and Michigan lines, the Conrail Detroit SAA Lincoln Secondary and Sterling Secondary, the CSX Toledo Terminal, Saginaw, and Plymouth Subdivisions, GTW's Mt Clemens, Holly, Flat Rock, Shore Line, and River Subdivisions, plus CN and CP's CASO Subdivision east through the Detroit River Tunnel to Windsor.