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Tram/light rail track pack for 1435 mm
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Tram/light rail track pack for 1435 mm

Description
This pack includes 14 types of track geared towards tram and light rail. It also includes several additional track elements as "buildings". This is measured for 1435 mm track and is similar to my pack for 1520/1524 mm. The pack is integrated with my Road Variety Pack. All mods have names starting with AVP to have them in one place.

The main concept for this pack was to show the rails as they exist in real life, i.e. made out of steel and thus gray/silvery, and not black. See screenshots for overview and instructions.

Included track:

Light rail (speed 110 km/h) - on gravel, on brown earth (both with concrete ties), and on slab (short ties).

Tram (speed generally 60 km/h) - on gravel, on brown earth (both with wood ties), on gray and red asphalt, on green lane, on large concrete plates, on smaller concrete tiles, on large red tiles (as you can see in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and on cobblestone (40 km/h).

Two special types of track - (1) 110 km/h rails only (no base, no borders, no sleepers) - this is convenient e.g. to do a level crossing with a road. It works well with "filler" buildings I will add through a separate pack.
(2) temporary track (no base, metal ties) for ground track - 30 km/h, see-through (no base) viaduct 60 km/h, and open-pit (no cover) tunnel 60 km/h.

Included "buildings": check rails (one sided and two sided), guard rails, guard rail ends, narrow metal plates to reinforce level crossings, large metal and resin plates for level crossings, rusted rails - grooved and regular. Select the desired building from the list, double click to place it into the model, pick the desired track, and it should snap into the right place on or around the track. There is also transparent red cast, in case you may want to "paint" any surface red to show that it's for transit.

You can see examples of using this track pack on a simple but realistic Kyushu (Nagasaki tram and Chikuho light rail) model in the screenshots above and at this link: https://share.nimbyrails.com/6S21RZlJd_NF8i6K39qJBg

Any comments on improvements are welcome.

I plan to make a similar pack for narrow gauge track as well.
9 Comments
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Nikl01as Aug 10, 2024 @ 1:47pm 
I love your tracks and I use them for my recreation of Düsseldorf. I just need to find 1000mm und 1435mm combination for Krefeld xD
adlet  [author] May 19, 2024 @ 12:37pm 
@(GER)SimuGames2003 there is a pack for 1067 mm. In NIMBY scale, 29.3 mm is one pixel, so 67 mm difference is essentially 2 pixel difference. Thus not currently planning to do 1000 mm separately.
(GER)SimuGames2003 May 19, 2024 @ 8:09am 
Is a Pack for 1000mm planned? This would be great!
Bausa Jan 9, 2024 @ 9:56am 
Ah, okay. The problems you encountered are unfortunate to hear about, but glad to hear you figured out a solution. I am confident that the replication to 1435mm won't be too hard.
adlet  [author] Jan 9, 2024 @ 9:51am 
Yes. It was almost ready and I then ran into an issue with the tunnel graphics. My tunnels were built to a train width 2.6m (subway) but I realized ground heavy rail typically goes up to 3.0 m and can also go all the way up to 3.5 m. So this required tunnel redesign. The other problem was visibillity of track in the tunnel against dark background, it was not great at mid-distance and too much black when seen from very high above. So I decided to try to come up first with 1067 mm and sort out these issues there. I will replicate the solutions from there to 1435 mm.
Bausa Jan 9, 2024 @ 9:46am 
Will you be doing a similar pack for 1435mm "heavy" rail like you have for 1067mm and 1520mm?
RangerRenze Dec 22, 2023 @ 12:16pm 
You only find it with Concrete nowadays, Asphelt is to soft so the tires running over the exact same bit every time a tram passes over will cause big grooves, there are places where trams/guided busses ran on concrete with a central guide rail in the past tho
adlet  [author] Dec 20, 2023 @ 11:29am 
@RangerRenze I will try to. If I understand Translohr requires a hard surface ie asphalt to have the rubber tires run on?
RangerRenze Dec 20, 2023 @ 2:10am 
Hello! been playing around with these in my Paris rebuild and they're amazing
Just asking to see if it would be possible to get some Translohr tracks, they're just simple concrete tracks with only a single rail in the middle