JulianMIA

I'm wanting this locomotive to be a backbone of the commuter train fleet, but it has proven much more difficult to repaint into a matching livery than anything else I have tried. I have made progress though - generative upscaling has really improved inside Photoshop and ChatGPT taught me how to convert dozens of red shades of the original to dozens of blue shades while preserving the original look. I thought I wanted to keep the original red catenary equipment but now I am not sure...

I always like catching them in coming in and out of the tunnel Shutes...

Trains running on time...

Nice choice of trees here!

This should just be called CASTLE BEYOND as that wall joining into the rocks is BEYOND amazing...

All of this is lovely but how you got the shoreline underwater to be so seamless is perfect! I always feel like the shoreline is the hardest area to form overall - color of the sand and rock, water transparency, etc. And you can never mess it up because you can never get it back the same way twice haha.

The lighting is lovely! How you got those rays of light to spread out so symmetrically on the right side is perfect

Such nice work! I love that high-tide shoreline with the water up into the bushes and trees

I was looking back an old city I had started in 2018 and came across this - Mainly it was an exercise to sharpen my skills at using the RHW flex pieces, it was about engineering how 5 lines of inbound traffic might get distributed onto city streets without creating arrival bottlenecks and outbound traffic could get collected in some more dispersed manor and onto the outbound bridge as quickly as possible. The bridges: The inbound traffic (right-hand side) gets separated into express lanes and off-ramp distributer lanes: First distribution north and south: The second set of distributor lanes would handle much more traffic. Already I was seeing so much flaw in this design here though as most traffic was let out southbound except for one loop around to the northbound expressway and one set of lanes that intersected with an avenue where traffic would have to stop and wait to turn left. Looking back at this now makes me remember why I abandoned the work. While it was fun an interesting to build, it does really let you see how much space highways take up. Trying to avoid this in my newest city.

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!

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

Busy weekday rail lines...

Really nice work, the park with the sports areas could be a photograph!

This is a favorite little group of buildings of mine - the juxtaposition of the modern clad Gucci building by @mattb325 flanked by the two deco-era concrete beauties of The Sundry and Hillier buildings by @Jasoncw. Then of course there is the commanding presence of the perfect Reynolds Building by @Diego Del Llano in the foreground. Yet it does not dominate, only compliments, the smaller buildings. I used to want to dress the cityscape only in as many glass towers as I could find but lately I'm loving trying to find the right mix of older buildings and new. It may be that I realize it is more of a challenge - it is easier to just build what you think is all-new perfection, it is a little more difficult, but every bit as interesting, to build as it is more likely to be. And still like it.

I was trying to look at the new traffic bollards I dropped in around the circle using the plop and paint when this one taxi driver drove up on the curve at the last moment and kind of photobombed me...