Show us your Railroads!

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[JulianMIA 1,599]

22 hours ago, ncamferdam said:

I would absolutely be interested 

And yes, that's the image I was talking about. Very good job on the reskinning of the trains. Is that something you can accomplish in Reader once you've drawing up the new livery?

I will prepare a little file package and send it to you.  And once you have the new livery file made, I just use photoshop and irfanview for that, it's easy to change out files with reader.

[JulianMIA 1,599]

14 hours ago, Nightplayer said:

What a stunning scene!  Leave it to some cows though to be so uninterested in that fantastic train going by...

[JulianMIA 1,599]

Getting a silver paint job seems to be very difficult - it either comes out too white or too blah grey.  This is probably the 20th derivation of my tries for a silver train but I think this will be it now...

 

[JulianMIA 1,599]

I decided to move over across the river and work on the tunnel portal area there.  These will be busy tracks as every train from cities in the western half of the region will funnel into these two tunnels (the other tunnel is just out of the shots) to get into the main city as well as the towns in the eastern part of the region.  

[Oidaas 1,650]

Soon on a STEX near you

[JulianMIA 1,599]

5 hours ago, Oidaas said:

Soon on a STEX near you

Nice long platforms!  I got tired of dinky 3 car trains so I set my min on passenger trains to 8 and allow them to go up to 12 cars.

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1 minute ago, JulianMIA said:

Fina långa perronger! Jag tröttnade på små 3-vagnståg så jag satte minimiantal passagerartåg till 8 och låter dem gå upp till 12 vagnar.

I have maid one who is 11 tills long however I found it to be a bit unpractical in sc4.

[JulianMIA 1,599]

I finished the north wall of the tunnel portals on the west side of the river tonight.  I have been trying to add more detail into the lot textures lately but it is hard to get the scale right, the drainage grates and the manhole covers should be much smaller but if you get them too small they just look like brown blobs.  I do really like how the newest concrete wall came out though.

I really like trying to get the small details that can really make something look more complete.  Here, one of the things is the way you can use a 32m piece of fencing to extend out over the avenue where it crosses the tracks - a little bit of extra safety.  I thought of using a solid barrier wall but you know, people want to see those trains comin' by...

[Oidaas 1,650]

17 hours ago, JulianMIA said:

Fina långa perronger! Jag tröttnade på små 3-vagnståg så jag satte minimiantal passagerartåg till 8 och låter dem gå upp till 12 vagnar.

How do you do that May i ask?

[JulianMIA 1,599]

13 hours ago, Oidaas said:

How do you do that May i ask?

Inside the Network Addon Mod folder in Plugins, inside 4. Automata Controller, in the exemplar, there is a property 0x8A441C9C where you specify the min and max for passenger trains - this also appears to control HSR trains and El-Rail/GLR as well.  0xEA441C97 is the property that controls min and max for freight trains.

[JulianMIA 1,599]

The tunnel portals on the west side of the river are slowly turning into an area of rebuilt infrastructure along with a new rail control and service base.  Still a thousand details to fix though.  But I like seeing the trains pass through these tight spaces while on their way to wherever.

[JulianMIA 1,599]

I used to have a tendency to over-light but while testing the night lighting on the tunnel lots I realized that I still have to fix the night-lighting on my remade commuter rail cars lol.

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Near compleation

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[JulianMIA 1,599]

Some trains around the new area I've been working on.  Most of the eastern-most regional rail lines will converge here to get set to go under the river.

 

ALSO:  raise your hand if you like to watch the trains go into the tunnel and then wait for them to come out the other side 

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Rail and BTM connections between the shore and the hills

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[JulianMIA 1,599]

Busy weekday rail lines...

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Is it possible to have multiple train lines automata for example like Amtrak, NJ Transit & SEPTA?

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4 hours ago, Girafarig said:

Nice!  This kind of terrain makes me think of trying to layout a Tehachapi Pass kinda thing you know

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On 7/6/2026 at 8:28 PM, Allen Thomas Pinckney said:

Is it possible to have multiple train lines automata for example like Amtrak, NJ Transit & SEPTA?

Hi!  I was not sure if you were asking me in particular but I thought I would give you some info about how I set up my trains.  The short answer is that there is not one single network of tracks that will carry all of the different train types in the same way that Amtrak, NJ, and SEPTA run on the northeast corridor line.  There are a lot of cool things you can do though to make your train networks feel more like that, this is what I do:

1. GLR - I modified the GLR and EL-Rail to be the same as the RRW/HRW texture I decided on except that it is powered by 3rd rail electric instead of overhead catenary. This is because I converted a heavy rail passenger-rail train I wanted to use to be the GLR train.  I wanted an alternative heavy-rail network rather than a true light-rail or tram type network.  More like LIRR for example.  

2. The newer hybrid railway (HRW) is really fantastic, this is my main network for all trains.  However, it has some limitations - it cannot go through the original-type maxis tunnels and so far has only 1 bridge.  So even though both passenger-rail and HSR trains can use these tracks I actually still keep them separate - I have the 'classic' network and the high speed network.  In my large train stations I am doing dedicated tracks for GLR and HRW but I'm careful to keep the HSR-dedicated tracks separated everywhere - so that the HSR train doesn't end up switching onto a track that tries to take into a standard-type tunnel that it cannot get through.  I like tunnels and all the different bridges that carry the original passenger-rail trains and don't want to give them up.

3.  I reinstalled the older bullet train mod back again because it will provide tunnels and bridges that the HSR trains can use - however passenger-rail trains cannot get through or across these.  So keep the two train types separated but running alongside and into and out of the same stations complicates the engineering but I kind of like it - it's a challenge and I've built some interesting things to make all this work.

What you see in the pic right above your comment is:

Top - the GLR line with it's heavy rail local/RER type train, you can see the third rail on the track

Middle - this is the dedicated high-speed line, I have a Eurostar dropped in right now

Bottom - this the passenger-rail network but it's also running on HRW tracks (except the bridge is not HRW).  To give a little variety to those trains I have 7 different car types and 5 different locomotives as part of the set.

4.  There is another train also, a fantastic TGV-looking train complete with head and rear end power units.  This is actually a reskinned freight train (genius) but it provides more variety of passenger trains running around on the same HRW trackage that the passenger rail uses.  It's not a working passenger train though.  I use it as I'm not really into freight trains at this moment.  So you can get something like this:

 

Anyway this was my 25 cent answer, hope you have fun doing trains!