High Speed Rail Project

[vester_DK 477]

Originally posted by: It how do you get rails and trains for this?quote>

Still under development. There is an alfa attached to an earlier post from the 03/20/2006.

[It 0]

where do you get the rails from

[thatmonkeysim 8]

once you get the alpha version you use the Monorails in the Train Transportation Menu

[Stewy13 0]

Wow, this project has come along way and fast. Looks really good, hopefully the NAM gets on track and this is included in the next release...which I'm very much looking forward to.

[Nexis 1]

i can't find the alfa version link!!!

[BlackDemon 0]

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/attachments//HSRPRELEASE2%2Ezip

I hope that works.

[buddybud 63]

truly amazing work....i look forward to the final version...keep up the good work!!!

[JayStimson 211]

buddybud: It is pretty nice, eh? Just think of all the "underbridge" accessories that can be made for it.

[akhil1280 0]

that's a great bridge you got there

[Running Naked in the Snow 2]

sorry to bump on this, but any progress?

[Fabiocb 1]

really amazing work guys I started to built the first link on my cities, but I noted that it doesn't accept slopes at all, it forces the terrain to be leveled, any news about it, oh and when overpassing a ground highway it has a bug, but I got to say it looks awesome, congratulations guys, I can imagine how much you've been working on it and the efforts you've been making.

[themallard12 55]

Personally, I would like something American, despite our lack of passenger rail , espescially or lack of hihg speed rail in this country. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express

[Mothas 2]

Were can we download your station 3ddz ?

Very nice job ! BRAVO !

[3ddz 17]

There isnt  a seperate download for the station, you will get the station with the beta release of the project not so far in the future.

[Mothas 2]

Ok ! Thank you !

[subedei 3]

just a quick question how does this differ then the default monorail or elevated rail?

Subedei

[topcliff 1]

@ subedei: it differs because it looks more realistic, goes MUCH faster making smaller commute times throughout the region, and it just is, so *switches to Clint Eastwood* that answer ya' question... punk? *switches off*

[Moshi 61]

I'm back (temporarily)

Let me get everything straight...

This project is called the HSRP, an anagram for High Speed Rail Project.

The HSR will replace the monorail, meaning it is fully draggable (not using puzzle pieces).

The latest BETA release is the double-dipped goodness one, in which curves do not work.

The next BETA release will come shortly, in which the first HSR station will be included, curves will work, and a better skin for the train.

In the future official release, every curve and turn will work, there will be a selection of bridges, an european (german) ICE skin will be included, and at least two stations will be included.

The Japanese shinkansen skin and the American acela skin will be made afterwards (by the hsrp team or by independent developers).

whew!

[Mothas 2]

OK ! I hope it will be very soon ! (I can't wait !!!!!)

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

So, if i wanted to go about making stations for this what would i need to do? And would it be possible to convert existing stations? I have a few ideas myself

[Edoardo-Pisa 0]

Hi, my name is Edoardo and this is the firs time that i write on this forum.
I'm near to take the bachelor in Elettrical Enginering, rail transport specialist: my first passion are trains.

Those are some of my pictures take on the Florence - Rome High Speed Railway (that in italy call AV - Alta Velocit&agrave:
this is the first  line build, in the period from 70's to 90's, but the italian invents the high way train already in the 20's 

http://www.fiammeblu.org/trasferimento_file/buone/1.jpg

http://www.fiammeblu.org/trasferimento_file/buone/2.jpg

http://www.fiammeblu.org/trasferimento_file/buone/3.jpg

http://www.fiammeblu.org/trasferimento_file/buone/4.jpg

Those are some pictures that i find in the web of new Florence's AV Station (design by Sir Norman Foster)

http://www.rfi.it/files/salastampa/eventi/progettiavfirenze/Rendering_stazione_Firenze_AV.jpg

http://www.archimagazine.com/atav1.jpg

This is the AV's principal site whit the photos of the work's state

http://www.tav.it/galleriafotografica/sx.asp?g=1 

Work on Milan - Bologna AV line

http://www.ferrovie.it/fol.tim/timdett.php3?id=1070

with the wonderfull bridge on the Po river



this is the new Reggio Emilias's station

http://www.trainzitaliafoto.com/data/500/mediopadana.jpg

design by Santiago Calatrava, infact it's very similar to estacion d'oriente of lisboa 

I'have post this pictures if someone want to build a mod to an High speed railway like the italian style.
I'm sorry for my bad English

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Just thinking, how easy would it be to convery my St Pancras to High Speed Rail, as indeed in real life it is being converted to high Speed Rail. Not all HSR stations need to be modern

Anyway, not long to the real station reopens with high speed rail connections to Paris in under 2 hours (faster than the current service into Waterloo)

[Mothas 2]

Edoardo-Pisa your station is very beautifull !

[winonanick 0]

thanks for the update 3ddz & moshi

What is the second station?

I thought 3ddz was planning on only releasing the one he is working on?

Is there an image of the second station?

Keep up the great work.

[paperboy15 4]

Thanks for the update guys! Tonkso: I'm looking forward to seeing a HSR station made by you!

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

I need the HSR BAT textures first

[hamsterTK 93]

hopefully we will see a basic no frills HSR station, since not everybody is going to be able to use a terminal with a ton of different connections

[Fabiocb 1]

I'd like to share my experiences with HSR I downloaded the Beta version I can tell you guys it looks awesome, but as said by Moshi the curves don't work, it works only with straight and leveled tracks (terrain with same height), althought the curved track looked perfectly using the mod, when I took out the mod I could see what it didn't work

look at the pic

and as soon as I took out the mod and fixed the traffic the use of the rail boomed from 20 users to 50.000 between my four station running trough 6 cities (large terrains)

I hope the new mod version to be released soon, I just can wait for this that will be one of the greatest projects of SC4 loosing just to NAM.

Congratulations and keep on the awesome work guys.

[Fabiocb 1]

Well here I made a test right now I after fixing the erros of the tracks when using the mod, I reinstalled the mod the for my surprise it works perfectly even on the curved tracks, the only thing that went wrong is the textures of the tracks on curved areas, as you can see on the pic below the sides area inverted, but it work perfectly even the U-Drive mode.

and here is a pic with a Monorail station so you can see the it converted its tracks automaticly.

well that's it for now.

[jglei701 8]

So will the regular monorail stations work for this...? I just found (and scanned through) the entire thread, but I missed that detail. Does this just modify the rail textures, speeds, and trains, yet, essentially, still BE the monorail?