Evening all,
With the SDR route coming to a close I am starting to think about next route. One route that has caught my imagination is the Lyme Regis branch thanks to DT Radial tank currently in production and a fond memory of it being one of my favorite routes from my MSTS days. Now I have already DEM'd the route, and laid some of the track, nothing worth showing yet though.
This is where I need some help. As I am sure most of you are aware I am no novice to the TS route editor, but one area I am novice in is building routes that no longer exist and as such cant just use the Google Earth overlay like I would on a current day route. So my main question is what is the best way to make a fairly accurate route representation of a railway that is gone. So far I have used Google Earth to lay the track on the countryside areas, as the trackbed is still fairly intact and noticeable from above but I am not sure how to lay the stations & yards seeing as there a shadow of there former selves and are mostly gone.
So how do you know what buildings, roads & forests ect do you know need to be placed? In asking this I assume there are some websites that have these maps?
Robert