High speed rail?

[Mr. 305]

I think it would be great to have 200+ km/h rail for the later portions of the game. There should be limitaions of course ie: no road crossings, min length, special stations, must be electrified etc.

[Titule]

Would be nice.
But first, the normal electrified rail-roads should work properly.

[bballjo]

Originally posted by Titule:

Would be nice.
But first, the normal electrified rail-roads should work properly.

Can I ask what's broken?

[Titule]

Let me mention a few things:

• There is no good way to see which tracks are electrified and which are not.
  
• In some places a signal is shown as if there is no overhead line there. If you remove the signal, it is suddenly there, but it back and it displays end/start overhead line again.
  
• Electric locomotives sometimes see problems with the overhead line where there are none. Other times they just drive past it. Once even the game crashed (will be fixed in new version)
  
• Aborting the electrification in progress is not possible. Removing already built catenary wire I haven't tried yet.

This may not be related to electric: I can't buy a train in a long train depot because the closest customs office can not hold it. WTF, it should not stay there anyway... There is a large CO some more far away, but (see above) the train thinks there are problems in the tracks...

[Silent_Shadow]

I might be wrong, but I don't think there were any high speed trains in the USSR aside from their experimental, weird jet propelled train. I don't think the eastern bloc (including our republic) had anything that could be called high-speed rail, at least not in the time frame the game is set it.

[longshots444]

Originally posted by Silent_Shadow:

at least not in the time frame the game is set it.

But as there is no end date for the game could they not be introduced after 2025?

[IntergalacticHouseOfPancakes™]

then it would be good as a research locked option, as their own rail type which cannot have crossings through it, forcing grade separations.
and for trains, get French TGVs or Japanese Shinkansen as an import choice. or research a fictional soviet highspeed train design blueprint at the engineering university.

[Silent_Shadow]

Originally posted by longshots444:

But as there is no end date for the game could they not be introduced after 2025?

I guess, but all the vanilla vehicles in the game are from the cold war era or just after it; the last vehicle to be introduced is in 1996 and most come well before that.

At most, I see the developers implementing high speed rail similar to the way they did the metro; where you could build a metro early on, but you had to import western metro trains because there were no soviet ones until 1968.

The first HST in the eastern bloc I could find was the RZD ER200 in 1984 for the USSR, while other eastern bloc nations only got high speed rail a few years after 2000. Western countries had them in service as early as the 1970s, so that could be the start date for getting high speed rail with speeds around 200 kph, with faster trains coming out in the 1980s and 1990s and topping out at 300 kph, as well as a couple soviet options.

[TrackTerror]

I need vodka jetfuelled train to help my workers export their potatoes.
My party elites already have cars and since we banned individual ticketing no laborers have means to but jet train ride, but it looks glorious in western paper.

[Silent_Shadow]

That is what the Tu-144 is for. Despite its huge engines, it still cannot reach its cruising speed before crossing the entire map. What better way to show off the success of communism?