Show us your Railroads!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

 

[Girafarig 1,414]

Well, I finally did it. I finally built my first Hybrid Railway station (far right):

It is a bit pointless, since the rail on the right moves through a very steep mountain range that can only be crossed by a two tunnels, and to the left, there's another city where the rail lines run underground, using the all-but-deprecated URail protocol, and terminate at a lovely but not high-rail-enabled terminus. But I have been trying to build railways to the high speed standard, even if there's only regular passenger traffic going through, because I don't want to be caught by surprise if the hybrid rail becomes more feasible to use on a hilly island.

Also, completely not related: I have the New Routemaster running the bus routes, but I just noticed it's made for LHD and my city is obviously RHD. Would anyone here (ideally the person who made this) be able to flip the automata?

Nevermind, found it!

  Edited November 19, 2023 by Girafarig  
Found the RHD Routemaster

[albireo38 340]

to avoid bridges or rail crossing (good word ?), I often build tunnel. I like playing with retainer wall. I found out many different.

2 examples. 

I create a slope with the rails and I remove it to build the road.

 

The 2nd example. Future terminus for High Speed train. The rail stays on the ground.

 

These examples needs to be magnify with trees parks, etc...

[jonnboy1976 220]

On 4/25/2023 at 5:51 PM, SIM-ple Jack said:

Awesome snapshot!  Can you please tell me if that bridge is functional, and if so, where can I find it?

[albireo38 340]

@jonnboy1976

you can find it there :

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/35509-vertical-lift-rail-bridge/

[mitsos 12,966]

  Edited December 27, 2023 by CaptCity  
Image attached for display.

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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

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[sejr99999 8,370]

4 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

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interesting patterns in the rocks

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[Haljackey 17,398]

I dunno what I did but I made this loop near a new RHW interchange

 

[JessiLaurn 184]

When you have to get your railroad up the freaking mountain....
 

[JessiLaurn 184]

And yes, more mountain-climbing rail:
 

[Propfam 2,305]

On 2/18/2024 at 4:29 AM, JessiLaurn said:

And yes, more mountain-climbing rail:
 

The gauge must be frickin huge since the train has to have a large engine, which naturally requires larger size.

[Propfam 2,305]

On 18/2/2024 at 4:29 AM, JessiLaurn said:

And yes, more mountain-climbing rail:
 

Again, nice rail.

[albireo38 340]

Rural train station...

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[mitsos 12,966]

 

[Flann 1,709]

Union Station in the City of Longmoor.

[simmering 2,743]

15 hours ago, Flann said:

Union Station in the City of Longmoor.

I would love to see other angles of this station.

[albireo38 340]

New rail area...

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[SneakyDeaky 1,130]

On 10/23/2024 at 12:08 PM, Nightplayer said:

Wow one of my favourite shots ever! So wonderfully done I can't imagine the time, skill, patience and imagination it took to create this. Just lovey!

[mitsos 12,966]

 

[JulianMIA 1,610]

My constant project right now is the station access tracks where three regional commuter systems, a long distance intercity line, and a high-speed line all need to converge to get into the station.  Tonight I spent some time getting a few images of various trains running through these new areas.

Here an intercity express passes in the background while the high-speed makes it's way off the bridge to the west heading into the station and a regional drops into the tunnel that will allow it to bypass this station alltogether...

 

Another high-speed arrival and another regional bypass...   Unfortunately, this tunnel will only carry traffic from the west and south-west regional and inter-city lines as I was not able to find a way to tie in the northern and north-western line that enters the area in the upper right of the pic.  So I ended having to build a second tunnel to carry by-pass traffic from those lines.  Good thing we don't really need to worry about the budget...

 

Needing to split the northern bypass traffic off to the second tunnel gave me an excuse to use the cool, curved, double-connector turn-out for the first time...

 

I feel like the overhead wires have added so much depth to the tracks since I was last building cities 5 years ago..

 

It is hard to resist sharing a pic of two fast beauties arriving at the same time!

[albireo38 340]

@JulianMIA Nice views !!! 

I am working also hardly on my rail network in my region. It needs a lot of works. 

Quick question : for the lamps where did you find them and also the ventilation for the tunnel ?

 

[JulianMIA 1,610]

12 hours ago, albireo38 said:

@JulianMIA Nice views !!! 

I am working also hardly on my rail network in my region. It needs a lot of works. 

Quick question : for the lamps where did you find them and also the ventilation for the tunnel ?

 

Thanks, glad you liked them!  The rail stuff is really my favorite stuff to build.

The overhead lamps are both from the LRM light replacement mod, it includes all the lights as props.  The whites are British Motorway Light "Industria" and the black ones are the British City Light "Generic".

The big ventilation unit and both types of chimney vents that I have there are from different prop packs but I think are all now included as part of the BSC mega pack that is now at sc4evermore.com:

 SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Common Dependencies Pack Version 9b (21 August 2024)

Good luck and would love to see how your upgrades come out!

[Leathershoes&corn 829]

On 2025/1/10 at 3:13 PM, JulianMIA said:

My constant project right now is the station access tracks where three regional commuter systems, a long distance intercity line, and a high-speed line all need to converge to get into the station.  Tonight I spent some time getting a few images of various trains running through these new areas.

Here an intercity express passes in the background while the high-speed makes it's way off the bridge to the west heading into the station and a regional drops into the tunnel that will allow it to bypass this station alltogether...

 

Another high-speed arrival and another regional bypass...   Unfortunately, this tunnel will only carry traffic from the west and south-west regional and inter-city lines as I was not able to find a way to tie in the northern and north-western line that enters the area in the upper right of the pic.  So I ended having to build a second tunnel to carry by-pass traffic from those lines.  Good thing we don't really need to worry about the budget...

 

Needing to split the northern bypass traffic off to the second tunnel gave me an excuse to use the cool, curved, double-connector turn-out for the first time...

 

I feel like the overhead wires have added so much depth to the tracks since I was last building cities 5 years ago..

 

It is hard to resist sharing a pic of two fast beauties arriving at the same time!

May I ask how could you make it possible to run that many kind of trains on track without mixing the coachs together?