Streetcar Tracks

[Sarge68]

I searched but found nothing helpful. I'm doing the USA missions and I'm just into the industrial age.

In order to complete some specific needs I am expected to install an electric streetcar system in an existing city. I am probably just dense but I can't find a set of tracks that the game will let me install onto or into the existing streets. ??!?? so how does one proceed??

[Antikristianos]

ther is a tool for upgrading streets somwhere in the street and tram building menu

[ChunkHunter]

streetcar = tram
There's a "magic wand" icon on the left above the selection bar.

[Sarge68]

OK then that worked thanks. Now it also says make sure it gets used. How does one do that?

[SBGaming]

Originally posted by Sarge68:

OK then that worked thanks. Now it also says make sure it gets used. How does one do that?

You'll want to create a route for your Streetcar/Tram that people will want to use. One way is to try to upgrade and create a route from the area requesting it, to your train station taking passengers to Monroeville.

With that said, there is a bit of an exploit that might not work with the new patch, since the new patch no longer causes cargo and passengers to disappear when a stop or station is upgraded. In the past, if you upgraded a section of road with a Bus Stop, it would delete the passengers waiting at the stop. In this particular mission, it counted some percentage of those passengers that got deleted as having used the Electric Streetcar line, even if you never ran a single Streetcar/tram on the line. Basically, you could complete the objective by upgrading an existing section of road with Electrified Tram line.

[Bramborough]

Pretty sure you're referring to the streetcar objective in PIttsburgh South, during Industrialization (US Mission 2). All you need to do is set up a tram line there that connects green/yellow/blue zones, so that folks can use it to travel between home and work/shopping. Should be plenty of demand just from that to fulfill the objective (plus iirc the line will probably generate profits for remainder of mission as well).

If you want, you could probably extend the line not too far away to the likely location where you built your Pittsburgh Central passenger station at beginning of the mission. Not necessary for the objective, but would generate even more passengers for both lines.

[Sarge68]

veery cool thanks again