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Amtrak Stations - Midway (on-track ped crossing)
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Amtrak Stations - Midway (on-track ped crossing)

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AMTRAK STATIONS: Buildings, Props, Dependencies
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"Amshack" Midway - pedestrian level crossing on tracks

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The Amtrak Standard Stations Program was an effort by Amtrak to create a standardized station design. The railroad launched the effort in 1978 to reduce costs, speed construction, and improve its corporate image.

When Amtrak was founded in 1971, it had no facilities beyond the station buildings and depots inherited from its constituent railroads. Many were in disrepair. Additionally, existing grand terminals in many large cities were larger than Amtrak needed and were expensive to retain. These reasons and others prompted the effort to provide those locations with more modern and appropriately sized facilities.

The station structures were intended to be functional, flexible, and cost-efficient.With spikes in ridership during the 1970s due to oil shortages, there was a perceived potential for permanent ridership gains. Therefore, Amtrak designed the stations to be easily expanded.

Five initial standard station design models were presented with varying ideal sizes and intended capacities. This variant is called 300A, and it is the largest variant of Amtrak Standard Stations project, also known as "Amshack".

Features
- Midway variant, that will be used on other size variants, as well as modular pack.
- Textures are optimized for Procedural Object, as well Midway textures are base on modular pack as well.
- Comes with basic decoration such as: rooftops, signage and lights. For platform detailing, use whatever you want.
- Low platform: Based with accurate track and platform height that is compatible with Railway 2 - Low platform station tracks.
- Compact stats: Lower pollution and noise radius, compared to vanilla station.
- Vanilla track length: Compatible with 5 car long units, altought tracks can be stretched in game with Move It.
- Pedestrian crossing: End segments (where platforms goes lower) features pedestrian crossings. On these areas, cims will crossover tracks, in case they want to reach platform building or reach other track. A separate pack of crossings will be provided soon.


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Amtrak, Amshack, Standard, Stations, Railway, Railyard, USA, United States, Low, Entry, Midway, Minnesota
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Snagletooth 16 Aug, 2022 @ 4:15am 
Great. Now if someone can start putting out some prototypical modern freight trains, be all set. There's one guy that was working it, but it's mostly props right now. The only working set he has he has set up as commuter trains, so they just run back and forth like a passenger train.

He said he's planning on releasing working freight trains, but haven't heard from him in a while.
REV0  [author] 16 Aug, 2022 @ 4:02am 
Just asked him, he said modern pack is due to release this month, older signal packs will be progressively released this year
Snagletooth 16 Aug, 2022 @ 4:00am 
:)
REV0  [author] 16 Aug, 2022 @ 3:58am 
Strategy Nerd had a signal pack made, but it had to be remade for RWY2 because of the clearance change, but I'll ask him again for signals see how close they're to release
Snagletooth 16 Aug, 2022 @ 3:56am 
Sounds good, cant wait.

Pere Marquette is a Chicago-Michigan train, I'm west of Chicago. I'm not surprised by the dual locomotives and AC's getting to it, thats a regional train and thats what they are for. That train often ran with what we call cabbage cars. Old F40ph's converted to baggage but the controls left in place for push pull regional trains.

I'm a bit surprised they are using superliners, though.

On a side note, the railroad signals you have in the Japanese railway prop set are nearly spot for for NA tri-light and searchlight signals. Even the little yellow signal breakers, if colored a dark brown, could be used for NA greasers and dragging equipment detectors.

If you can ever find the time to drag those out into a separate pack, they could be nice start to an expanded NA prop pack.
REV0  [author] 16 Aug, 2022 @ 3:29am 
I made a modular pack of station buildings, which will be released later. As for train consist, it's from 'Pere Maquette' route from Chicago. It had 3 superliner with 2 genesis/charger
Snagletooth 16 Aug, 2022 @ 12:59am 
Oh, just to point out. In the Midwest the AC44 "midwest" is used for short regional trains, ei amfleets, horizon and eventually the venture cars. Superliners are not usually used on regional trains, although some "long distance" trains like the Texas Eagle can be only 3-5 cars long and use superliners. One of the Chicago-St. Louis trains used to use 2-4 superliners, also.

The ACL44 (the blue with red) is planned for long distance trains and is currently being tested on the Empire Builder...ei superliners. Maybe ventures eventually?
Snagletooth 15 Aug, 2022 @ 11:44pm 
Fantastic work Revo. Will platfrom prop extensions be released.
REV0  [author] 14 Aug, 2022 @ 5:12am 
not yet, they were waiting the stations
shanttk91 13 Aug, 2022 @ 6:32pm 
Are the trains in the photos released yet? :)