[OTTD] Frenchie's Screenshots

[frenchie]

Ok, so rather than keep lurking like I've done for months, figured it was time to actually go ahead and post something. The following come from a game that I've been playing today. I meant to do a progression of screen shots as time went along but I got a bit too involved and just forgot to do it, oops .

What you're looking at:

1. Muir & Co's HQ and Hometown of Bridlington. Not a lot of room to go around the town. Thankfully there's nothing to go around the town for as the nearest town is quite a way away to the south. The company's first loco, a 4-4-0 has carefully been restored and placed on display after spending some ten years in storage (see 3).

2. Derby Junction. Playing with towns set to low, and nearly all of the towns ended up in one small cluster. Around Derby there are four other towns and with train, tram and bus services they basically grew into one town. How well this junction actually works continues to surprise me, I'm yet to see it clog despite my best efforts to route trains through it in interesting ways.

3. Bridlington Storage Sidings. Many a loco has ended up in these sidings for extended periods of time. Nearly all of the AEC railcar fleet has recently been stripped of its carriages, joined up and then mothballed. The locos still have a few years left on them but aside from one local line the service is better covered with Met-Cammells. A lone Met-Cammell is also in storage after the aforementioned switch saw one line struggling to keep up the number of passengers. When numbers recover slightly it'll go back into service.

[ivanfurlanis]

The company's first loco, a 4-4-0 has carefully been restored and placed on display after spending some ten years in storage.

What a clever idea! Now I know what I can do with a Grandunion Pacific that lies unused from years inside Rylesvalley Central engine house.

[frenchie]

What a clever idea!

Alas not an original one, I took my inspiration from another screenshot I saw here but I can't for the life of me remember who's idea it was or track the post down with a search to give them the credit. I thought it was a really nifty idea when I saw it too, particularly as the loco was pretty much worthless by the time I was ready to sell it off.

I've basically gotten bored with this game, all the towns are linked now, I might post some end game screenshots of a few areas later. The problem with playing not too many towns I suspect.

[frenchie]

As mentioned above, all the towns are now connected and while the small rural towns are still to be really developed, there's just no room to work around any of the big towns any more without demolishing large chunks of them. In future I'll have to play with a slower town growth rate and more towns to begin with to make the game last a little longer. Still I got some 50yrs out of this map.

4. Towcester. This original piece of track is the only part of the main Southern Mainline that is still single track. I'd originally planed to tackle the problem with tunnels but the brewery popped up and got in the way of the extensive earthworks required to expand the station. Interestingly enough, as Towcester is an all-stops station the single track doesn't seem to cause too many problems. Trains end up waiting for another train to leave anyway. I did however have to move the freight trains off to a refuge as they were causing havoc.

5. Winsford Brewery. Appeared after the junction was built and the town to the east had already closed in making it a tight little space to work in. What I got was this compromise which involved making Winsford station completely bidirectional. All things considered it works remarkably well with a small goods train running services to Derby.

6. The map. the Five towns on the left have basically grown into one super town wth my railway lines being the only divider. Towcester is attempting to do the same thing slightly to the south having already absorbed one town and rapidly encroaching on another. The eastern lines remain largely undeveloped but the lack of space in Derby is making me bored with the game.

[frenchie]

It's been a while since I've posted

This is a shot from my current game using NARS, the first ten years or so have been spent building up a fairly sizable kitty before expanding into passenger rail services. The company's first loco can be seen in the bottom right. This loco has already seen use hauling coal at the beginning of the game. It later went on to be a steel hauler in tandem with the loco from the first iron train. Nowdays it's seeing service on the first passenger line.

The layout of the mill station has changed a lot in ten years after several booms and busts at the various feeder mines. Long term as the town grows I'm planning to turn at least one of the now defunct platforms into a passenger terminal.