Honestly, although I am a Pennsylvania Railroad girl, I have always held a soft spot for the Monon. From what a deceased Pennsylvania Railroad engineer once told me, 'The Monon was always a good interchange partner. When they interchanged with us, they took good care not to damage a thing, and the movement was swift like clockwork.' I wish the Monon had lived to see the modern day. I can picture the lines running with C44-9W's, SD70ACe's, SD40-2's, ES44AC's and so on pulling freight with F59PHI's and P42DC's in passenger service had the Monon kept passenger service and the passenger trains kept bringing in money. A nice review Nick, and a nice start for At The Railyard in 2015.

@Unionpacifcfan

6 жыл бұрын

Hey we should talk sometime I agree

@JessicaKasumi1990

5 жыл бұрын

@@Unionpacifcfan About what, if you don't mind me asking.

@Univer3eTwist3ers

5 жыл бұрын

@@Unionpacifcfan Daaamn son that's cringy lol

@844SteamFan

3 жыл бұрын

@@Univer3eTwist3ers Very

@champsmitty1

2 жыл бұрын

Bridgeguy?

By far the BEST At The Railyard episode EVER. Amazing work Nick!

@Surfliner486

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt :D

1:31 so we're not gonna talk about how smooth that shot was?

@lnproductions3227

3 жыл бұрын

I agree as It was amazing!

Being a born and raised Hoosier, I'm too young to have had the privilege to ride this historical rail. I would have loved a cross state train ride like this. But at least the Monon lives on today as the state's most well known and largest walking and bike trail.

Awesome review! Gotta love those Alco C420s in the gold and black colors! Thanks for sharing!

having worked for the Monon out of Hammond in 69,it was nice to see the loco,s i have to look at timetable for names of towns

A truly outstanding video, with fabulous narration and perfect choice of music!

Just discovered your videos last night, and I can't get enough! Well done! ~ Fred

On the way to see thousands of Sandhill Cranes at Jasper-Pulaski fish and wildlife area I drove through Monon, Indiana. I took a picture of the Monon caboose in the town of Monon. North of the town is the Whistle Stop Food and Dining restaurant & Monon Connection museum where I took many more pictures of rail cars and railroad equipment . If you are in the area I recommend stopping at both the museum and the restaurant. The link to the museum is: mononconnection.com/

Well in light of your opening I have to start out by saying Open channel F3. I'm the person responsible for the switchstands on most of the US MSTS routes though I handed them over to a second party for the animation and actual light physics.as my originals were simply something better than the stick next to the switch with bright material for the lamp lenses. Seeing them now these 17 or so years later I cringe a bit at how rough they were.

This video is 7 years old of today, just something I noticed while going through these videos lol

I can't stop swearing after seeing this! It's so fu.... FANTASTIC! Between the video and the route itself, holy sheep dip! The intro made me pee myself laughing so hard. Cripes Nick, you're too young to know anything about Robert Vaughn and that series! LOL But you did it amazingly! And son of a biscuit eater, Rick Berg and his work. I usually only go for Canadian roads, but I'm seriously thinking about dual citizenship now! EXTREME KUDOS Rick & Nick, or Nick & Rick. You guys both get the gawd dang Oscar for this one! :)

@trainzguy2472

5 жыл бұрын

Love the "Man from UNCLE" style opening!

@crispy9542

4 жыл бұрын

this is the best filtering i have ever seen... *he's too powerful to be kept alive*

The Tippy Canoe ,that’s an interesting name for a premiere passenger train

Just amazing thanks for sharing this

Very nice man. An inspired and entertaining review of an inspired and entertaining route and a railroad which has always held a mystique for me since I first heard of the Monon. One of the best videos I've ever seen on You Tube. I am getting new PC in a few weeks and this will get me right back into MSTS. Thanks for keeping me informed AND inspired!

It is obvious you really like making video's They are a pleasure to watch..

I was just on Highway 39/421 yesterday following the abandoned Monon ROW from Rossville to Monticello... it was sad seeing it empty, but it was fun imagining what it used to look like. From the looks of it, this route might be able to help me know what it was like. I'm actually doing a similar project in Trainz 12 right now, recreating the Erie Lackawanna line from Huntington to Rochester. Of course, the EL wasn't really a Hoosier railroad, but it had some unique features on its run through here. Either way though, I'd love to see a really accurate Monon route, and I'll definitely give this one a shot (I got MSTS to work on Windows 8, so here's to hoping the route works).

Great job of narration!

Love the Man From Uncle Theme!

I hope the owner of the route will add some Milwaukee road steamers in some New York Central steamers and I hope he will update all the steamers to look like the original looks

I was never able to get this route to run right. I'd get to certain points and I'd get hit with a bunch missing shape file errors. It was still a nice looking route though. I might try again one of these days.

That was certainly a new intro! Here's to another year of At The Railyard! *Gets drunk later that night and staggers to bed like a demoman*

@trainknut

8 жыл бұрын

+Jesse Isbell And.. he barely uploaded anything worthwhile, and abandoned the show a few months later.

I remember thinking the Monon was just another midwestern railroad. Its totally not, its a historic monument to Indiana. I never knew it only owned track in Indiana, which is cool! They owned tons of cool stuff like BL2's, Alco's and like the SP, used the light package. Cool vid!

Excellent Review!!!! Requisit for UP FEF-3 Class Review on Railworks when you have the time.

A lot of people actually recommended me getting the Monon RR route, though I'm not big into US diesel routes to be honest. The only US route that caught my attention is Milwaukee's RMD East that also comes with several excellent activities. You should do a video on it.

He's back!

You should make more videos!

Great Video!!! Worth the wait!!!

Love the history. Who thought 500 miles of Indiana could be this interesting.... :)

@cf3482

6 жыл бұрын

Who thought Indiana could be this interesting in general?

@juliansrailroadlibrary5075

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Weston I live in Indiana. That was incredibly rude!

another great video keep it up

Oh up and down the Monon everything is fine 'cause that rootin' tootin' Monon she's a Hoosier line!!

Could you do the RF&P subdivision for open rails? It's on train SIM.com

Although you haven't uploaded a lot in the last few months and the now following route is 8 years old, I have a recommendation for s video. Try the Ruebelandbahn in Germany. If you search for Ruebelandbahn MSTS you should find the download.

I love the look of this route. Hopefully someone makes this route for train simulator because I have train simulator not msts. By the way, are those two schools still in the football rivalry or has it ended and one of them has the bell

will you do a review on some newengland raillines?

What's the name of the song in the opening scene

Is the route accurate with famous locations on the Monon?

Very nice review- I do a lot of the web/video stuff at the Indiana Transportation Museum and I've always wanted to set up a simulator on the museum grounds for people to experience our railroad history in a different way. I played MSTS on Windows XP but have since switched to Mac and only run Windows 8 on an home theater PC I have. Can I run this in Windows 8? Would MSTS or Open Rails be my best best? Thanks!

@nicholasozorak2931

9 жыл бұрын

+Austin Mace MSTS can run on Windows 8. Both MSTS and Open Rails are good choices, though Open Rails is easier to get.

welp I need to get MSTS now, let me explain, Indiana is my home state, with (as of right now) a small railroad no as the Louisville and Indiana going north to Indianapolis and south to Louisville, and the east and west "Indiana sub" for the csx going from Cincinnati to St. Louis. My home town is where the 1st train robbery in history happened (Seymour IN.). so for short, the railroad heritage in my town is strong, and it was funny seeing the Indianapolis union station at 7:35 considering that the L&I has there own burgundy heritage units in the pennsy scheme. so the railroad heritage deep in my town, and this would make an amazing route to operate on.

@trainknut

8 жыл бұрын

+ChanceR20011 Good luck, the only easy way to get the game is to find a second-hand CD-Rom copy(Good luck prying that from the hands of a hardcore fanboy) Or to illegally download pirated copies, either online via Pirate Bay, or on a burned CD containing the game. Either way, you're going to have to catch up on over fifteen years of content packs, updates, and patches, to be able to download anything good without major technical problems. Still, once you finally do get it(however you do, I won't judge if you pirate) it's certainly worth your effort, as almost every single US railroad in history has been represented at least in a small way, plus dozens of fictional and what-if routes, enough to keep you entertained for centuries.

This Railroad was the first to replace all there steam locomotives in 1947

I love the B11

The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like did back in 1954.

It would be great if this were modeled for TS2015, not sure that sim can handle a 500 mile route though.

@cpufreak101

8 жыл бұрын

if MSTS fails, go OR then.

Why does that diesels headlight spin like that??

@ClearTrackSpeed

4 жыл бұрын

It's supposed to emulate a mars light; a little motor that spins the lightbulb in it's housing

Red and gray are the colors for Indiana University. Cream and crimson they call it.

@HeartlandTuber

7 жыл бұрын

Red and White. NOT gray. Cream and crimson / red and white. Go Big Red.

@kennethcurtis1856

Жыл бұрын

@@HeartlandTuberBoiler Up. Purdue is Indiana's university:-))

2:49 that is just an Illinois Terminal inteurban car, not an Indiana Railroad one.

Good video, can I use it on the train Sim I have from Steam?

@nicholasozorak2931

9 жыл бұрын

This route only works for MSTS.

@88081jeffreyg

9 жыл бұрын

Okay sence mtst is no longer sold, how can I get it or buy it?

Have you thought of doing the West Highland Line for TS2015? Its real life counterpart has been voted one of the most spectacular in the world.

You go frank lol

How could I buy the game ?

@nicholasozorak2931

9 жыл бұрын

The download for the route is in the description.

@trainman7616

9 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Ozorak Hey Nick, great review, but I think he meant where could he purchase MSTS. Im not even sure on where someone would still acquire a copy. Good work btw

@nicholasozorak2931

9 жыл бұрын

trainman7616 There are quite a few copies on eBay.

@trainman7616

9 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Ozorak​ oh, I didnt think many were left. Also, Nick just incase you dont have it. SimulatorCentral is giving away the Blue comet DLC for free this weekend.

Who agree's this series needs to be fired back up

@tzvispielman1073

4 жыл бұрын

Me

6:20 LOWELL!!!

Could you do one about CSX

Are the ten thumbs down IU alumni?

3:58 Hobo Railroad 958 get your ass back to NH

Wow. What a way to ring in 2015! Over 500 miles?! Seriously? Wow! I don't know of any routes in either Trainz or Railworks that have anything to compare with that sort of milage! One of the things that still makes MSTS great. I have to ask though, really? This route has no flaws at all?

@SRJason747

9 жыл бұрын

This route may have a grade crossing here or there that isn't perfect, but other than that it is. It is hands down the best route that I have used in MSTS. The vegetation shown in the vid is along ALL 500 miles of the route. It is simply an amazing route!

@trainknut

8 жыл бұрын

+sirrliv He reviewed another route three or so years ago that was actually over 3000+ miles long, and included a huge chunk of the Pennsylvania Railroad spanning more than five states. It wasn't as detailed as this one, but 3000+ miles of accurately recreated, era-appropriate railroading is quite something.

@sirrliv

8 жыл бұрын

The Arctic Gamer The Pennsy Eastern Region, I remember it well. Almost makes me wish I still had a working copy of MSTS to check it out for myself. And again, more than anything Railworks/Train Simulator 2016 has to offer. Granted, we're starting to get close with things like JustTrains' Western Mainlines, which spans from London to South Wales & Cornwall, a total of over 300 miles of track. It is also now possible to travel all the way from Brighton on the English Channel to the Kyle of Lochalsh at the northern tip of Scotland via the legendary East Coast Main Line, albeit over multiple different routes.

@trainknut

8 жыл бұрын

sirrliv Yeah, but with DTG's strict restrictions on content development has held the community back. How much better could have routes like Canadian Mountain Passes, Cajon and Donner been if they allowed third party groups to develop them at their own time and price. They've started to open up, allowing groups like Digital Train Model, and G-Trax Simuations to co-develop content, which have proven time and again to be superior to their Dovetail counterparts. We as a community could have easily matched and passed MSTS by now if they just listened to critics, and loosened their stranglehold on the developers. Trainz could conceivably pass the Pennsy Eastern Region with ease, but they have the opposite problem, they have to work completely independent of Auran and N3VGames for free, with the added risk of the content being stolen without consent for the next title in the series. (Trainz hasn't produced a single first-party route since N3V bought the series in 2009) Downloading a single route, even a small 20km route, can take up to weeks, including finding the dependencies and installing third party content and software, and it can take up to a decade to produce a single route good enough for publish. A 3000+ mile long route in Trainz would take 5-10 years to make, that's assuming they have a team of people developing it 24/7, and could take up to a month to install every single dependency.

Fake video

@unkownyt945

3 жыл бұрын

What?