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Sunset Limited

peccato che il golfo non sia navigabile

I played enough games and while stopped, but looking at the screenshot sure this map is as cool as your other ones!

This is the sort of map I would *love* to make work.... but on first glance, I am guessing the distance limit on freight would kill it... anyone know?

@mmhat I wouldn't suggest building HSR that hits all cities.
That way you lose too much town accelerating and breaking and having waiting time.
Ideally your HSR-routes should look like this (stations with a letter are major stations, smaller stations have a number)

A - B - C

And you have 2 smaller trainroutes doing the following:

A - 1 -2 - 3 - B and B - 4 - 5 - 6 - C

That way you have the numbers of passengers needed for a HSR-line and make it appealing for others to use the line; the smaller routes provide a "commuter" line between the bigger stations

@mmathat I've found long-distance routes to be exceptionally unprofitable. I enjoy building and running them, but when you have two towns 20 or 30 kilometers apart with nothing in between them, there's going to very little demand. Ideally you'd want to run a long, heavy train on a route like that but there's usually no demand for anything more than one or two passenger cars.

Scronny,

Thank you for answering. What I mean is, building a high speed passenger from Jacksonville to Santa Fe in this game. Hitting all the cities along the way. Tough part so far is finding a way of fitting a station in NOLA w/o bulldozing half the town.

@mmathat
Talking IRL or in game?

In game the long-run trains have the advantage that you can have one consist for an entire route thus cutting in maintenance cost since you have one type of train to maintain (small cost factor) However if one section of the route is busy and another half calm then it doesn't pay off

Never really studied the value of long runs on trains. Do they pay off? Or does the cost of the train & it's expense destroy the value?

Well that certainly ought to be enough to run a "Limited" service on. I love making trains run long distances in TpF, makes it feel like a proper journey. I should really be giving this map a shot. Thanks!

@GrijzePilion supposedly it's about 4*64km