[OTTD] Ivan Furlanis' screenshots

[Benny]

Do you have a scenario or a very early save? That map looks grand.

Beautiful and clean shots as always.

[ivanfurlanis]

I've just posted the scenario in the proper page. I hope you can enjoy it.

[Benny]

Great! Thanks!

[DanMacK]

How did you do the overhead shot? Just skewed it in photoshop?

[ivanfurlanis]

How did you do the overhead shot? Just skewed it in photoshop?

Yes!

[Benny]

I've given up the scenario already..

I'm not good at short trains..

[ivanfurlanis]

Nordbahn 1952

Finally Nordbahn has resolved the Heidelberg Nordbahnhof short platform problem. Now the station has two 5-tile long stub ended tracks (#1 and #4) for local trains and two 7-tile long through tracks (#2 and #3) for Eilzüge. In fact these last two are used as through tracks just by the goods train from Berlin Gbf to reach Heidelberg Gbf but when (better: if) the Köln line will be opened the same route will be used by long distance passenger trains, too.

The new Heidelberg Nordbahnhof layout. At the moment the Berlin – Solingen – Hannover Schnellzug still doesn't stop in Heidelberg and it runs around the station via the Pfaffengrund and Wieblingen junctions. The station features two stabling tracks where local trains are stored between journeys. See also the cramped new engine terminal with a unemployed BR 45.

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A new private line, called Hannoverische Kreisbahn (HKB) links Hannover with Siegen via Karlsruhe. In Hannover the HKB ends at the Hafen as a direct connection with the Hbf would have been complicated; the city now has three different rail terminals, from the oldest: Nordstadt (to Frankfurt), Hbf (to Heidelberg, Solingen, Berlin), Hafen (to Siegen).

The peaceful countryside town of Siegen. I'm quite proud about the station, I think it's very realistic. In the pic both HKB trains are visible: the passenger, leaded by an ancient ex NB BR 85, has just leaved while the livestock/grain train, leaded by an Okz 32, is being loaded; the freight train runs to Berlin Gbf via Waldheimerbahn and Ruhrtalbahn.

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Do you want a map?

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Here is!

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[ivanfurlanis]

Nordbahn 1955: how to improve a station.

The small station in Trier on the Neckartalbahn never satisfied Nordbahn management as it had just two tracks and laid down between to downhill grades. With the recent opening of the new Ostbahn, Hohenzollernbahn and Dreisamtalbahn, traffic on the Neckartalbahn has decreased a little, a good occasion to rebuild Trier station with three tracks. As usual, I made these works wihtout stopping the game and/or the trains.

The original layout.

This was Trier before reconstruction works. Those switches dated back when the station was the terminal of the line from Heidelberg; since the extension north to Hannover they had been unused.

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Step 1

The new track three (northbound main) has just been activated while the old track two has been disconnected. The train carries wood from Bonn to Heidelberg.

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[ivanfurlanis]

Step 2

Both old platforms has been demolished. During this step track three is used in both directions as shown by the southbound Hannover Hbf – Heidelberg Nordbahnhof Eilzug.

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Step 3

Now the station is completed with the new tracks 1 (southbound passing loop) and 2 (southbound main). I set in the southbound locals timetable a forced stop of "10 minutes" (= 1000 ticks) to give time to faster trains to overtake as you see in the pic. The crossover is not just eye-candy: it has been placed for a future DMU service Heidelberg – Trier and back.

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[Benny]

Nice solution. But why is the passing trask in the middle one-way?

And can we see a shot from Berlin Hbf?

[LaSeandre]

The passing loop sin't in the middle, it's at the left hand side of Trier station.

Lovely screenshots, what NewGRFs do you use (if any)?

[maselbe]

The passing loop sin't in the middle, it's at the left hand side of Trier station.

The passing loop is indeed in the middle of Trier station, if you would make it realistic the passing loop should be on the right hand side so the passengers platforms are "connected" and are on the same side the town is. But that would drasticly decrease efficiency of the track.

[ivanfurlanis]

The passing loop sin't in the middle, it's at the left hand side of Trier station.

Lovely screenshots, what NewGRFs do you use (if any)?

Here is the NewGRF window.

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About Trier, you must imagine that an underpass, located under the roofs, links the station with platform #1 and #3. Sadly, the NewStations underpass must have at least two tracks so I couldn't use it.

About Berlin, here are two large screenshots showing all the rail hub. It looks quite impressive but just few trains use it; in the early years the NB expected a great population boom that, in fact, never materialized.

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At the Güterbahnhof the HKB grain/livestock train from Singen has just unloaded and it's waiting to come back on home rails. When the goods train will finish to be loaded it will race to Heidelberg-Kirchheim (ex Güterbahnhof). That mail lorry on the rail bridge over the S-Bahn replaced the steam mail-only train Görlitz – Berlin – Hagen.

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After one or two minutes the HKB freight has leaved, passed Hagen and now is running on the Ruhrtalbahn. In the opposite direction a BR 45 leads the Hannover-Linden – Berlin Güterbahnhof grain/livestock train. Hagen Abstellbahnhof got the overhead years ago for the S-Bahn but now S-Bahn trains don't use anymore it as they reverse directly in Hagen station (track #3).

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[colossal404]

About Trier, you must imagine that an underpass, located under the roofs, links the station with platform #1 and #3. Sadly, the NewStations underpass must have at least two tracks so I couldn't use it.

You can build the underpass to the first and third platform:
Bulid a three track underpass and demolish the center track with the station building tool + yellow bulldozer blade on the build menu.
(sorry for my bad english)

[Benny]

Your english is excellent, colosal404.

Ivan, Berlin is beautiful, splendid work.

And can we see a new shot of the trier, WITH underpasses this time?!

[ivanfurlanis]

Ivan, Berlin is beautiful, splendid work.

And can we see a new shot of the trier, WITH underpasses this time?!

Thank you, but now I've heard that the Nordbahn wants to cut the S-Bahn service as it isn't profitable. We'll se what will happen. About Trier, there are problems with NIMBY groups that are against building the underpass as they are tired by all the noise caused by last works. In the meantime perhaps you can enjoy this shot of Oldenburg.

[ivanfurlanis]

Your english is excellent, colosal404.
And can we see a new shot of the trier, WITH underpasses this time?!

Here is Trier with underpass, the new Schienenbus trio that shuttles between here and Heidelberg Nordbahnhof and the new bus that links Trier with Darmstadt.

[Benny]

They're both really nice!

[ivanfurlanis]

--- New game ---

Berlingburger Eisenbahn Ges. 1936

Today Herr Johann, from Bielefeld, has decided to go fishing in Stuttgart. He had to wake up early to get the morning train to Heilbronn; he've managed to prepare himself quickly and now he's at the station looking at the upcoming narrow gauge steamer coming from Potsdam.

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The first stop is Potsdam; the little narrow gauge train of the Landesbahn stops in the street in front of the standard gauge station. Herr Johann could change train here but he prefers to continue far east to Heilbronn.

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At Heilbronn the Landesbahn train is stopping first at the Landesbahnhof then it takes a very narrow 180° turn to enter inside the standard gauge station.

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[Benny]

I am still amazed of how you are able to make money with such awesome networks.