"Underground" Rail Stations? (Not Subway)

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NJCurmudgeon

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I was wondering if anyone can recommend any good "underground" railroad stations. I don't mean "underground" in the British subway sense or a subway station. I am thinking of something like Penn Station in Manhattan (though I'm sure other examples exist - Penn is just the one I'm familiar with) where there are multiple tracks going under a building to the platforms and coming out the other side. I am working on a layout where I want to make a small city and include that style of station (assuming there is one).

Thank you!

Gordon
 
most larger stations (above or below ground). are scratch built using various parts. There are plenty of different platform types, cement walls, pillars, etc out there to allow you to build some pretty cool ones. And on the plus side your will be unique to you!

peter
 
I was thinking about that approach as well, but didn't know where to start! Assuming I can't just be lazy and use a read-made, I may go that way. Thanks!
 
We have 4 such stations on the central area of Glasgow on suburban routes and a line closed by Dr Beeching in the 60's had several of them. Glasgow Central Low Level, Queen Street Low Level and routine stations at Charing Cross, High Street, Argyle Street, Anderston all still in existence. I was tempted to do that route at one point (one such below ground station had a junction) so will be interesting to hear how you get on.
 
There's another underground main line station in Scotland - the one in Dundee.

In the early days of the railways, there were two separate lines which terminated at stations on either side of the city, and when the time came to join them up the only solution left was to burrow under the streets. Eventually the two surface level stations were closed, with all their services handled by the surviving low-level platforms of just one of them, making it, incidentally, Britain's only main line station below sea-level, with the sea only a hundred or so yards away....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee_railway_station
 
@John - Thanks, but I'm not sure where I'm looking on that page for it. Is there a "Search" function I'm just missing? Looks like a useful resource in general, though!

@rjhowie & masontaylor - Yes, I figured there had to be others. Being from New Jersey, I'm just most familiar with Penn Station in NYC as an example of what I was thinking of doing. I have a fictitious layout I've been slowly working on, so I'm not patterning it on anything specific - just whatever strikes my fancy and might be a challenge to create. I may work on the underground station as a separate munch of boards I can merge with the route I'm working on but also upload to CM to share as a stand-alone. I'm still learning with Trainz, so we'll see!

Can anyone recommend the kinds of parts one might use to make something like this from scratch?

Many thanks everyone!

Gordon
 
Some parts of the AJS station kit might be useful.

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What that is, three main components;

breakwater1,<kuid:36638:38005>
Conc Slab 100 m,<kuid:30671:38002>
FMA Covered pipeline,<kuid:149987:37691>

Breakwater 1 for the walls (also used in subways) the concrete slab for a roof, and the pipeline spline for the support girders - the actual pipe is hidden up inside the concrete slab roof. Passenger platforms and tracks to taste, AJS invisible platforms for passengers. Set some buildings on top of the slab and go for beans. Other details, add some lamppost objects for lighting, I didn't bother with that since the main focus of this route is freight operations. So why am I spending so much time on the L and subway sections lately? :hehe: Anyway use lampposts or streetlights for supporting stanchions, whatever you think looks like Penn Station. Lot of other walls and slab splines available, I picked these cuz I liked the look and they're big enough to get the job done.
 
NJcurmudgeon,

Robin Hoods has an undergound station on the DLS. No idea what it is like as no picture. I don't think it would a multiple platform one though.
 
Another one I forgot since I didn't discover until after most of the underground work was done - set the content manager search filter for Author, zatovisualworks, type "concrete" in the keyword window.

Concrete ceiling and walls v2 100m. wide,<kuid:86311:1646>
Concrete ceiling and walls v2 50m. wide,<kuid:86311:1645>
Concrete ceiling and walls 100m. wide,<kuid:86311:1639>
Concrete ceiling and walls 50m. wide,<kuid:86311:1640>
Concrete ceiling v2 100m. wide,<kuid:86311:1647>
Concrete ceiling v2 50m. wide,<kuid:86311:1648>
Concrete ceiling 100m. wide,<kuid:86311:1637>
Concrete ceiling 50m. wide,<kuid:86311:1635>
Concrete pillar wall v2 50m. high,<kuid:86311:1643>
Concrete pillar wall 50m. high,<kuid:86311:1642>
Concrete wall 50m. high,<kuid:86311:1641>

There are a bunch of other walls that might look like Penn Station (never been to that station, at least not when I was sober enough to remember it) but basically you dig a wide trench with the surveyor terrain tool set to use height, -10. Then lay track and station platforms and whatever, last thing is put a roof over the whole thing when you're done.
 
I've put together a station I'm fairly pleased with (needs some tweaking still!). Two questions, though...One is if it is possible to have the platform lights on all the time. As it is, they only come on when it's night but, technically, since the station is underground, it should be dark enough for the lights to be on all the time. Is there a way of doing that?

The other question is with weather. When it rains, it rains through the slab as if there was no roof. Is there a way around that?

Thanks!
 
I have no idea about the lights on. This could probably be done with a different asset, or perhaps some script mod somewhere.

Raining and snowing through surfaces is a longtime issue with Trainz that has never been solved.

John
 
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