Railroads?

[LivingInThePast 364]

To me, railroads were terribly done on SC4. You were forced to put double tracks, the trains looked awful and moved along at a wrong pace, always, the railroad crossings were okay (except for Avenues) but were a major disappointment. In REAL life, trains don't deliver at the "freight railroad station", there are spurs. I haven't seen any railroads in CXL, but they'd better be...okay. Any pics?

[egod6969 8]

I think they may be an addon but not available at the outset judging from some of the posts to the CXL forum.

[Asheroo 53]

Actually, call them in.

The German preview (which mentioned about no trains at release) was most likely wrong like all the other German previews, which some even said there won't be any multiplayer. Some other previews, including even Dirk's, mention about trains. Also, the 2nd of the 'Head for the Big City' trailers shows a train and so does a picture of the different transport types in the "CXL Simulation Pt 2: Transport" blog.

[LivingInThePast 364]

OK, I've seen an image of a train. Still, that doesn't tell me a lot. Crossings! I want to see crossings!

[funkychicn 1]

Crossings are good, I agree with LivingInThePast.

[deathtopumpkins 43]

@OP: Your information about railroads in SC4 is highly incorrect. First of all, there IS single track rail, comes with the NAM, and second of all, trains will pick up freight directly from adjacent zones, you don't really need freight stations unless you want freight to transfer from truck to train.

And you have to take into account that not everything might be finished in CXL yet considering that they still have over 3 months until release. So there is still a little bit of development going on I'm sure.

[LivingInThePast 364]

I know that single track IS available in SimCity 4 under the NAM, but because of the way SC4 is, it will never really be "up to standards"...you couldn't double-track it (or de-double track) without changing the whole actual position of the railroad. I'm not really that into single track railroads in SimCity 4 right now because that's primarily in SC4D and something happened at SC4D I don't want to talk about.

[beesbees 1]

I love trains. Trains, trains, trains. The best mass transit available...

They better be in the game

[Shai Hulud 0]

Just because they were the best transit in SC4 doesn't mean they will in CXL.

But think about it, leaving out mass transit would be a huge fault. There has always been mass transit in SC games, so why wouldn't they be in CXL?