Station-street names

[simont]

I just ordered ts12 and I am thinking of doing a layout of my dreams and one that I mite up lode when done. Hear is a bit of a sneak peak of what it will be like when done. I am doing a city layout wear the trains run along the city. Now I will have 1 big city then 1 medium one and 4 small towns in one huge layout with a fright line going a long side and all towns and city will concert. I am thinking I will have up to 200 or maybe more of stations. Now that said with all the stations that I will have I need names I do have some in mind but I don’t want to use them over and over agene. And as trains is a world wide game I was thinking I would ask all of you for ideas for names. They can be made up or they can be real st names. Thank you for any help any of you could give me. And I will give updates on the layout as I go along.

 

[schweitzerdude]

Try Google maps

First decide what country your route will simulate. Then go into Google maps and pick a large city in that country and zoom in for ideas.

If your route is in a country that you don't live in but know the language, even better since you will have a sense of what the street names mean. And in many cities the metro stations are not named after streets but nearby important buildings and landmarks. For example, in a Spanish-speaking city, you might have a station called "Universidad" or "Biblioteca Nacional"

 

[simont]

First decide what country your route will simulate. Then go into Google maps and pick a large city in that country and zoom in for ideas.

If your route is in a country that you don't live in but know the language, even better since you will have a sense of what the street names mean. And in many cities the metro stations are not named after streets but nearby important buildings and landmarks. For example, in a Spanish-speaking city, you might have a station called "Universidad" or "Biblioteca Nacional"

Thanks for the hlep i will do that my route is in the USA but i would not mind puting in names from all over the globe.

 

[martinvk]

Placing 200 stations might be a bit much and unless you plan on having very short distances between stations, your route could quickly become too large to upload. Sounds more like a subway or light rail system than a freight line. A few stations here and there, connected by rail would be a good start.

Google is an easy way to collect street names. Old fashioned paper maps also work. Your local AAA should have some for you if you're a member.

 

[Snowhill]

Try Googling a state and type in place names you should get quite a few in alphabetical order..

 

[simont]

Placing 200 stations might be a bit much and unless you plan on having very short distances between stations, your route could quickly become too large to upload. Sounds more like a subway or light rail system than a freight line. A few stations here and there, connected by rail would be a good start.

Google is an easy way to collect street names. Old fashioned paper maps also work. Your local AAA should have some for you if you're a member.

thanks for the info what i plan on doing is having short distance between staions it is kind of a subway. what i am thinking is just see how it
Goes as I work on it. I am finding I am coming up with new ideas for the layout as I plan. One thing if I did want to up lode some thing how big can it be.

 

[ftldave]

... your route could quickly become too large to upload.

In these days of broadband internet, what's going to make a route "too big?" Are you referring to some size limit of DLC in Download Station? Or perhaps old timers still running dial-up modems? :hehe:

Please explain. Thanks!

 

[martinvk]

See here and a bit further on here.
I also vaguely remember there was a limit to the size of a file you could upload to the DLS but I can not find any reference to that right now. An old timer, I guess.:wave:

 

[paulzmay]

See here and a bit further on here.
I also vaguely remember there was a limit to the size of a file you could upload to the DLS but I can not find any reference to that right now. An old timer, I guess.:wave:

Maximum file size is now 512MB - I remember it being 20Mb and then 50Mb. 512Mb is a TRULY huge route with a lot of detail (bear in mind that the route does not includ the content, just a reference to it).

Paul

p.s. http://k4-pacific.com/nametown.php , http://plambeck.org/cgi-bin/placegen.cgi , http://philriley.tripod.com/otngstreet.html

 

[rjhowie]

Don't want to rain on a parade but that does sound ambitious some 200 stations! My reason for being so direct is that I spent nearly 2 years off and on building the city of Glasgow and all the suburbs that used to have trams (system sadly closed in 1962). It was the biggest street tramway outside London. Indeed I can laugh now thinking I had done well having reached 20 junctions in the earlty stages. I can tell you it is very, very difficult and it was a supreme effort to complete it. Several times I was near to throwing in the towel. When you start with Trainz due to the ease in building compared with competitors newbie zeal reckons it would be easy but it was a long haul. I can understand why some can get burnout easily.

Now I am building the whole of N. Ireland Railways and this is proving another mountain. Maybe not as big a climb but is hard to stick too sometimes especially as I live in Glasgow! I commend the enthusiasm but after a while even with off breaks it is hard to stay focused on something big so think like Caesar re ambitious but watch you don't get like Nero and get burned!

 

[Dan_Hat]

on my network I used names of places I knew, some I adapted some i kept the same but all were from places with no rail stations, also i took real station names and changhed them slightly, for example Denny's Junction in my world is tanken from the station St. Dennys in southampton