[OTTD] beeb375's Screenshots - 27th April 2009 - New stuff!

[beeb375]

I think they're the standard ones that come with TTRS if I remember rightly.

[beeb375]

A few shots from the end (ish) of my current game with the DB set. The year is 2030

Here we see Gera, the most isolated part of the map - getting there from Jena is the longest journey between two cities on the network. It is served by BR182s capable of 230km/h, and hovercrafts to Dessau, which run slightly slower. A small tram network using 3-car articulated trams has recently been constructed:

Deutsche Volksverkehr 1.png (196.57 KiB) Viewed 1728 times

Next we have the trackwork around Mannheim Hbf., one of two stations in that city. When it reached capacity in the late 1960s, a new station (Mannheim Siegener Bahnhof) to the north was constructed to handle all through local traffic, and the original station is now used by long distance ICE3s to Jena, semi-fast BR101s on the Nuremberg-Siegen route, and a small diesel service to Essen, which can be seen arriving into track 2. Outside the station, an ICE3 from Nuremberg waits for a BR101 to pass heading back the same way, while the bypass tracks for the direct Nuremberg-Siegen service can be seen on the right:

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Siegen is the busiest station on the network, although most services are locals formed by various length BR612s. These locals use tracks 4-6 on the right, while a mix of BR612s to Wuppertal or Essen (via Mannheim Siegener Bahnhof) and BR101s to Nuremberg (either direct or via Mannheim Hbf.) use tracks 1-3:

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[beeb375]

Here's a map if any of you fancy requesting anything

[Benny]

Excellent stuff there, my friend!

[beeb375]

Why thank you, kind sir. Any particular part of the mappage you'd like any screens of?

[Comm Cody]

Save game Please.

[Benny]

I'd like to see Bremerhaven and Bonn, if that is okay?

[beeb375]

Save game Please.

Well, the game runs on OpenTTD r15674, which you can download here (assuming you're on 32-bit Windows, otherwise find the right one here). Info on how to set up Nightlies can be found here, then you'll need the following GRFs:

grf_list.png

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Then load up the saves and enjoy! Let me know if you like it...

saves.zip

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I'd like to see Bremerhaven and Bonn, if that is okay?

Sure thing, in the next post

[beeb375]

Bonn
Bonn, being slightly off the beaten track, only got connected to the network in 1994, and receives a mediocre service at best. Its only connection is a shuttle service to Hagen on the Dessau Circle Line operated by a near 40 year old BR614 diesel multiple unit.

Here we see the shuttle service approaching the simple single platform station:

Deutsche Volksverkehr, 3rd May 2030.png (179.27 KiB) Viewed 1505 times

Hagen
At Hagen, access is provided to the Circle Line, but is only used for empty stock movements, with the Bonn service normally using a dedicated bay platform. Hagen is served by both local and semi-fast BR612 DMUs. The semi-fasts stop only at the larger stations on the route, with both clockwise and anti-clockwise services, while the locals only run from Siegen to Dessau before turning back to Siegen using the same side of the circle.

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Bremerhaven
Bremerhaven is on the opposite side of the circle, and also sees semi-fasts and locals, as well as a 6-car service to from Dessau to Mannheim Siegener Bahnhof, instituted only in 2021 on newly built track which can be seen at the bottom of the picture. An Outer Cirlce (anti-clockwise) service can be seen departing for Siegen:

Deutsche Volksverkehr, 24th May 2030.png (224.19 KiB) Viewed 1501 times

[Benny]

Awesome, excellent in fact.

[Two5Kid]

Finally, something has been posted my friend. Haha! Massive towns you have there and what a weird landscape. I really don't understand how you could build 6-lane or 8-lane tracks when the town is closing up on you? Maybe a mixture of land buying and 'townbuildnoroads'?

[beeb375]

Awesome, excellent in fact.

Thanks muchly

Finally, something has been posted my friend. Haha! Massive towns you have there and what a weird landscape. I really don't understand how you could build 6-lane or 8-lane tracks when the town is closing up on you? Maybe a mixture of land buying and 'townbuildnoroads'?

Neither actually, the towns simply grew around the railways, I built all of the road bridges and encouraged the growth. As an example, here's Mannheim Hbf. in 1945, effectively the upper limit of the town:

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And here's the view 26 years later. The town has grown around the other side of the main station, and the new Siegener Bahnhof is now the upper limit of the town, which again is surpassed later on:

Deutsche Volksverkehr, 20th Oct 1971.png (216.28 KiB) Viewed 1357 times

As for the landscape, I don't like playing on big squares, I never know where to go with the lines, I prefer maps with some shape to them, gives the rails some geographical features to follow.