Here's a challenging route to make

HiBaller

19 Years of Trainz
I ran across this today. It is an unfinished subway/street-level railway planned for Cincinnati, OH. The article has a rather detailed map.

Here is the link.

Bill
 
I know the area well. Some of the tunnels went through my hometown (Norwood) When I was younger I would walk through them on my urban expeditions. Part of the route I'm working on may have it,but it will be an add-on sometime in the future.

Dave
 
It interested me because I live about 45 minutes north of the area, in Beavercreek (outside Dayton). It never was built, but no reason not to use the map to project the route. It might be interesting to do.

Bill
 
For the time period it was being built is there any subway cars that could be used? I love the idea of bringing the line to life, but I need to finish the Cincinnati route first before trying to tackle the old subway system :confused: .

Dave
 
Not sure about that, Dave. I suspect that they were more concerned with building the line than populating it with rolling stock. Depending on what the gauge was, maybe something like old-timey New York subway cars would work. i couldn't tell from the pictures if there was a third-rail system or what.

Bill
 
This definitely would make a cool route. It's too bad it wasn't finished as that would have been very beneficial today. If they did complete it today, it would only cost $100million.

Anyway.... I would use either the Low Voltage subway cars available on the DLS for a period route, or go with more modern NYC types. If you want to go out on a limb, the route could have overhead wires outside the tunnels and third-rail in the tunnels like Boston's Blue line, or even better a high speed trolley system would be appropriate as well. If you do this as a period piece, I would use PCC trolleys, and for modern LRVs would be appropriate such as those Bombardier Flexcity types, or those U-bahn Siemens trams.

John
 
There's some (Russian?) assets on the DLS prefixed "k m" which offer a good variety of subway style tunnel and track sections (not Protrack). Not sure if there's any trains to match, though.

Another interesting US system now abandoned was the Rochester Metro. Very elaborate river bridge which I believe our intrepid builder Mr Bendorsey has actually created and placed on the DLS.

The biggest challenge making subway systems in Trainz as opposed to MSTS or TS20xx, is that you really need to work cut and cover and there's no way to replace the DEM over the finished work (or it lifts your fixed objects back to ground level). Likewise, you can't over-ride the terrain collision and go underground to work on subterranean aspects.
 
One more interesting system that myself, along with Peter (Narrowgauge) and others, worked on is the Chicago Tunnel Company. When we stopped work, we had the entire tunnel system laid out covering around 5 square miles of trackage under almost every street in the Loop area as well as across the river. Track (tunnels, actually) with overhead electircal catenary, rolling stock, motive power, and other goodies were built as well as some of the basements to major buildings and freight elevators able to take an entire railcar.

I think I used TS2010 for this project, but I don't see why it couldn't be brought into TS12 or even T:ANE if there was enough interest.

Bill
 
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