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## About This Content
The beautifully rural Mon Line running through the heart of Pennsylvania
springs to life in this new route for Train Simulator, complete with mile-long
coal trains and distinctive street running.
The original Monongahela Railroad was a joint venture between the Pennsylvania
Railroad (PRR) and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE). Through the
early 1900s, the two companies acquired many lines in the area and by 1930,
the Monongahela (‘Mon Line’) was operating more than 170 miles of track
serving numerous coal mines.
At the heart of Pennsylvania’s coal country, the rural Mon Line is today owned
by Norfolk Southern with CSX Transporation also having trackage rights. Coal
mines dominate the route, with important facilities at Bailey Mine and Emerald
Mine connecting with a staging yard at West Brownsville from where coal trains
continue on their way to power stations or to ports for export.
More than 20 million tons of coal is annually transported along the line, much
of it to Loveridge Secondary where it is transhipped from rail to river
barges. The route is primarily made up of four branch lines – Manor, Ten Mile
Run, West Brownsville and Loveridge, and includes the unusual spectacle of
full size coal trains sharing the public highway with cars along Main Street
in West Brownsville.
The route is relatively level, following the west bank of the Monongahela
river, as far as Millsboro, then Ten Mile Creek to Waynesburg and Emerald
Mine. The line then turns north east, closely following the twists and turns
of Browns Creek. This final 15 miles to Bailey is completely rural in nature
until it reaches the loop at Bailey, when the dominant coal industries take
over.
Included with the 50 mile section of the Mon Line from Bailey Mine to West
Brownsville for Train Simulator is a Norfolk Southern-liveried ES44AC diesel
locomotive, part of GE’s Evolution Series. Its mammoth 4,400 horsepower and
75mph top speed make it an ideal locomotive to head the long coal trains seen
on the Mon Line.
Engineers can also create their own coal loads at Bailey Mine and Emerald Mine
with working coal loading facilities, and experience the rail served
businesses along the east bank of the Monongahela River, including a metal
recycling yard north of Brownsville, river barge repair and construction yard
to the south, and a rail/river coal transhipment facility at Alicia.
## Scenarios
Seven scenarios for the route:
* Training: ES44AC Expert Controls
* Training: ES44AC Simple Controls
* Running the Manor
* Emerald Coal Run
* Power Supply
* Monumental (Part I and II)
More scenarios are available on Steam Workshop online and in-game. Train
Simulator’s Steam Workshop scenarios are free and easy to download, adding
many more hours of exciting gameplay. With scenarios being added daily, why
don’t you check it out now!
Click here for Steam Workshop scenarios.
## Key Features
* 50 mile Mon Line from Bailey Mine to West Brownsville
* 10 mile branch on the east bank of the Monongahela River
* Norfolk Southern ES44 AC diesel locomotive
* G11 round tub coal gondolas, with full and empty loads
* Working coal loading facilities at Bailey Mine and Emerald Mine
* Dash 9-44CW diesel locomotive (AI only)
* Scenarios for the route
* Quick Drive compatible
* Download size: 1,286mb
Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
CPU | Processor: 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo (3.2 GHz Core 2 Duo recommended), AMD Athlon MP (multiprocessor variant or comparable processors) | |
RAM | 2 GB RAM | |
OS | Windows® Vista / 7 / 8 | |
Graphics Card | 512 MB with Pixel Shader 3.0 (AGP PCIe only) | Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required |
Direct X | 9.0c | |
SOUND CARD | Direct X 9.0c compatible | |
HDD Space | 6 GB HD space |