Buy Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: Saluda Grade Scenario Pack 02 PC key

Train Simulator Classic Train Simulator: Saluda Grade Scenario Pack 02 is an add-on for Train Simulator Classic, with ten career scenarios set on the 70-mile Saluda Grade: Asheville – Spartanburg route. Across the Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern eras, you operate main-line, local and switching freight trains through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Saluda Grade route

The scenarios cover the route from end to end, including the 4.7 percent Saluda Grade, the steepest standard-gauge railroad main line in America. You handle both the climb and descent, as well as the route’s saw-tooth profile of repeated 1.5 percent grades. Local and switching work takes you to industries along the line, which has more than 40 of them.

Locomotives and duties

You take the controls of four types of first- and second-generation Southern Railway and Norfolk Southern diesel locomotives, including Electro-Motive F7s, GP18s, GP35s and SD40-2s. The scenarios include a snowy westbound F7 journey from Spartanburg’s Hayne Yard, where you double the hill to climb Saluda Grade; summer and winter switching turns from Hayne Yard, including work in the Cane Creek Industrial District; and an early-1980s woodchips train hauled by a mix of Southern and Norfolk Southern locomotives.

Other duties include making pickups and setouts toward Hendersonville with Southern GP35s, hauling coal from Asheville Yard to the Skyland Power Plant with a Norfolk Southern SD40-2 running long-hood forward, and splitting and spotting the loaded hoppers at the receiving yard. In the TR Turn, you come off the Brevard Branch at Hendersonville and work lineside industries toward Asheville Yard with Norfolk Southern GP35s. The ten career scenarios are based on actual railroad operations and train numbers.

Included scenarios

• Covered Wagons on the Blue Ridge, Pt. 1
• Covered Wagons on the Blue Ridge, Pt. 2
• Covered Wagons on the Blue Ridge, Pt. 3
• East End Turn
• Turn to Hendersonville
• Cane Creek Switching
• A Time of Transition
• Heavy Ballast Haul
• Nocturnal Coal Haul
• TR Tonnage