[OTTD] Ivan Furlanis' screenshots

[ivanfurlanis]

After passing Stipwich tunnel we've entered the narrow valley that leads to the "Fen". The valley is shared with the country road and the narrow gauge railroad leading to the power plant. At the end of the valley the mainline passes under the narrow gauge line and we start to travel along the "Fen" that is crossed by various railroads.

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Finally we've arrived at Fen City. The main station is under deep rebuilding as it is being transformed from terminal to through configuration. There are also plans to move the interurban terminal to the main station but at present nothing has been decided.

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The first interurban leaving from Fen City was a Dronningville train, but we must go to Drintfingpool Bridge: so we've decided to take the Dronningville until Burry Fen and to wait there for the right train. Perhaps we can spot some freight interurbans at the Burry Fen Junction .

[ivanfurlanis]

We waited a long time at Burry Fen (there isn't a good service on the interurbans as they serve just very small communities), but now we are on the Drintfingpool Bridge car. Trains to this destination make the same route of the Dronningville trains until Dronningville Junction where the two routes diverge.

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At Drintfingpool Bridge the interurban line ends (for now ). To continue our travel we must walk a little until the nearby village of Sardingstone. Here we find the first opened section of the new mainline from Fen City where run steam pull-push trains. As soon as possible the interurban line will be extended to Sardingstone to permit a better service, but the local authority is opposing to this project .

[ivanfurlanis]

Finally, we are at Karterwood, end of our travel. The station is not exactly in the town center because the RyRy has the ambitious plan to continue the mainline further south to Lakersbay (where there WAS that logging line with switchback, closed, but not yet dismantled, years ago). We'll see if this will become reality!

[beeb375]

Very nice screens, and a good story too, would just look a bit better with longer trains, I think, but other than that very nice and neat

[SNIER-88]

nice pictures. i was thinking to ask where did you find those new trees grfs?

[ige]

SAC´s stolen trees

[Artamir]

Rural and cute screens . There is a city full of casinos (Fen city) hahahaha very funny. I like Rylesvalley, very nice

[ivanfurlanis]

Very nice screens, and a good story too, would just look a bit better with longer trains, I think, but other than that very nice and neat

Eh eh eh, trains aren't longer because there is no need for more coaches! Only between Fen City and Rylesvalley it's necessary to reinforce a little the service, but this will happen when I'll complete the line to Karterwood.

[ivanfurlanis]

Rural and cute screens . There is a city full of casinos (Fen city) hahahaha

I HATE that building ! I could switch to Total Town Replacement Set but I'm not sure how this will work on an already started game.

[ivanfurlanis]

It's 1931, now I have my first ships, planes and buses...

[ivanfurlanis]

Perhaps buses will be introduce between Nudston Fen and Minnings Range where the local passenger train service is unprofitable.

[Artamir]

Rural and cute screens . There is a city full of casinos (Fen city) hahahaha

I HATE that building ! I could switch to Total Town Replacement Set but I'm not sure how this will work on an already started game.

No, town replacements don't work on old buildings, you have to destroy old buildings and new will be part of the set.

[ivanfurlanis]

Finally I've just completed all the mainline along the southwestern side of the map with the last section Karterwood – Lakesbay. Construction was difficult because hilly terrain and wild forests, but at the end the iron won over nature !

[ivanfurlanis]

Restart, restart, restart...

Grandunion Railroad 1913

Every time I play with (Open)TT i end in a great problem: i start to forget what routes my vehicles are doing and it becomes very hard to keep everything under control. So I decided to close the RyRy game shown before and to restart again keeping updated map and roster sheet as the network grows. On the map I show all the lines and stations; every railroad line has a series of three-digit numbers to represent the routes that uses it. A letter after the number is added to identify a freight service as shown:
C = coal
F = grain and livestock
G = goods
I = iron ore
O = oil
S = steel
V = valuables
W = wood

The first digit of the number is used to identify gauge, electrification and class of every route:
100 = 1st class (fast passenger trains) unelectrified standard gauge
200 = 2nd class (local passenger trains and freight) unelectrified standard gauge
300 = 1st class electrified standard gauge
400 = 2nd class electrified standard gauge
800 = 1st class narow gauge
900 = 2nd class narow gauge

The roster sheet shows in each row every train, road vehicle and ship; columns indicate the category of vehicles (narrow gauge train, trolley, ship, ecc. ecc.), the subcategory (steam, diesel, electric), the identificative number (or name for ships), type, consist (trains only), route number, route, and cargo. In this way it is easy for me to know how many trains run on a route, in a section of track or through a station; I can also stop to play the game and resume after some weeks without worrying to memorize everything.

[ivanfurlanis]

Grandunion Railroad 1916

Three years later and the Grandunion Railroad has just inaugurated its first standard gauge line between Rylesvalley South Station (the older narrow gauge station now it's called North Station) and Fen City (Fen Division) with two intermediate stations in Nudston Fen and Burry Fen. A third station should be built in Stipwich but locals refuse to grant the permission, of course ! Between Rylesvalley and Fen City there are two trains, a local passenger (route 200) and a fast non-stop passenger (route 100).

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Grandunion Railroad 1917

In 1917 the Grandunion RR has completed the first section of the Mountain Division, an ambitious narrow gauge line that will connect Rylesvalley with the eastern end of the "world" crossing various mountain divides, narrow valleys and rivers.

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Grandunion Railroad 1920

My own way to play with TT is to keep building new lines without stopping: when a new railroad is finished I start to extend my network before the inaugural train of the latest line has completed its run! So, after three years of the last installment, the Mountain Division has reached another town, Puntfingburg, while the standard gauge network has been connected to North Minning Factory to provide grain and livestock services from Nudston Fen.