Sadly, it is true that no real progress has been made on this route. My personal life has really limited the amount of time I can dedicate to building a route and what free time I do have I like to spend playing the sim. I do want to create this route though and have not given up. But I need to spend a lot of time with tutorials before it can even be seriously considered.
I have ideas for even more routes in my head. The only quick solution I see would be to find a route builder to team up with. I would be perfectly happy to do the research and take care of the terrain and decals and then hand it off to a true builder to lay the track, etc.
So if you are a route builder and you read this and would be interested in talking about working together and how we could help each other, please shoot me a quick note.