Show us your Railroads!

[LP 1]

Anubis and aleking... your work really amazes me no matter how many times I see the same pictures.

Anyway, I love working with rail, and to date this is my favorite shot.

[antipat 0]

Wow! Nothing like feeling depressed becasue your rail lines suck after looking at these. Just kidding. I'm getting some good ideas here!

[dac8767 0]

pretty amazing

[Goin2Chicago 4]

awesome picture LP. if there was a longer buddybud bridge that you could put on that bridge on the right, it would be perfect, but it's not your fault so awesome job. lol.

[Fairlane500 8]

How about a bit of a mining railroad?

[crazychickensc12 84]

Amazing pic dark_jedi, great work there!!

[LP 1]

goin2chicago, I could actually use 2 avenue/highway/double rail or the sorts overpasses and get the look. Good idea though, I'll see what it looks like.

[akhilles 1]

wisher, is that Japanese? Looks realistic.

Dark_Jedi06, very elaborate.

LP, keep it up.

3 more: SimTropolis Train Station front & rear close-ups & McDonald's (would you look at the fender-bender caused by everyone rushing for a morning bite?)

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=14728

[jacqulina 162]

great work there looking great

[xiziz 11]

Okay, so we should post an image of our railroads ^^ not very much, but it took suprisingly long time to get the station placed correctly... then a scycraper blocked out that portion from the good angle anyway... but the station overlaps the tunnel and hides the tunnel and creates a visial plaza inbetween the w2wbuildings and the station.

Dont know if i have any other nice looking railroads in Vando, but there might be some hidden somewhere ^^

[Yoman3 5]

Good blend of Old and new Xiziz!!! I rly like those skyscrapers across the street from the W2W

[wisher 0]

Originally posted by: akhilles wisher, is that Japanese? Looks realistic.quote>

 

Yah I'm working on a region based entirely on Japanese bats, and trying not to use any original buildings. Thanks.

[akhilles 1]

xiziz, amazing. The old buildings look like the mall in DC.

wisher, please post some pictures when you're done. How about building some rice paddies beside low-to-medium-size houses separated by very narrow streets, some grocers & 24-hour convenience stores close to a rail line with ACed-in-summer/heated-in-winter booths? Did I forget those vending machines selling hot coffee? Search for a city at Google maps & click the 2nd button (Satellite) for ideas.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=paddy+japan&btnG=Search

http://maps.google.co.jp/

Update: a ground level rail tram line in the southeast. Crashing back to desktop was fun. I found a tip: build the GLR line first & stations last. There aren't GLR over one-way roads. You'll need NAM for GLR. The below are optional.

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=13515

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=15116

BridgeHieghtLow&Suspen_FixedV2.zip

CleanAir.zip

[smstevenms 7]

AK, sweet pics, man so jealous.

anubis89, thanks Ill check it out.

[Gridlock 9]

Awesome railroads guys , 

Just a simple pic of the regional main line

[Joe 90 358]

Combine railways and mountains and you end up with some interesting engineering solutions

[Super- Timo 0]

It you want to see some railways click my signiture my cj is full of them!

[akhilles 1]

jacqulina, very original farmland in your CJ.

Gridlock, where's the grid lock?

Joe 90, looks like a watercolor painting.

Super- Timo, could you wait a while? We handed out all the awards.

Updates: the center rail lines are over 3000 in traffic. The western line extends into the dirty industry. Freight trains come & go non-stop. First time I've seen this orange apt up to 10000 resident capacity. There are 2/3 in the city. Shown is in northwest. I've found that I have to accommodate the larger buildings by adding accessible public transit or else they'll go empty. A convention center by a large train station & an upgraded commercial airport.

[Camaron 1]

An impressive collection of pictures here, I like your rail bridge Joe 90.

[420 0]

Sorry to be slightly off-topic here, but...

Can anyone tell me how to set-up a railroad? I've been having troubles doing it.

[akhilles 1]

Thanks. Keep 'em coming.

420, what exact troubles are you having? If you're more specific, we can give you a better answer. Basically, you drag a rail line across empty land, place 2 passenger/freight stations at both ends, connect the rail line with roads, public parking lots, bus stops, etc. Railroads merge if you overlap 'em together diagonally. Delete a 1x1 section & redo until you like the crossing. Watch it grow. The train cars show only as much as the usage of the line & stations. The more usage, the more train cars.

Update: same rail for the city & GLR for individual parts of the city lines, new GLR tram cars, & bigger capacity stations. Gotta thank those who made the STEXes.

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=16625

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=15086

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=4323

[420 0]

How do you take in-game screenshots? I could show you exactly what's wrong with it...Because I wouldn't know how to explain it too you seeing as I don't know any dynamics to this game at all...Haha.

[akhilles 1]

That's easy. Look at one of my screenie. Click ... icon in the lower-left, 1st camera, click to take a screenshot, click ok to keep or trash can to delete.

[asteconn 9]

Actually - all of these are great :-)

But there is one thing that I've noticed in almost all of the pictures - and that's some of the very steep gradients for what look like main line rail :-S

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an early layout of an elevated rail network

[GMT 389]

awesome ideas here!

maybe I should copy some... maybe...

[crazychickensc12 84]

very nice layout aleking!! great work!!

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[BigSlark 0]

Thats an awesome yard complex, aleking. I'm uber impressed!

[akhilles 1]

aleking, excellent city layout. I've been STEX-shopping. It's scary that I can recognize some buildings in your city: AGS Arbordale Stadium, Urban Parking Garage, Blockbuster, Century Movie Theater. Also great rail yard work. Keep it coming.

GMT, I don't mind if you copy mine.

Update: loving High Speed Rail Project, & the creations of BAT - Hong Kong / Asian Team Room. Could stare at the skyscrapers all day. The HSRP rarely has trains on track. Makes sense. Its station can connect to 2 elevated high-speed rail lines, 1 elevated rail line & 1 rail line both ways.

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=16426

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=153&forumid=1