What if?......Alternative histories for Trainz routes

[Thai1On]

Has anyone toyed around with possible alternative histories for Trainz? With a number of people making some great fictional routes and some with back stories makes for an interesting sim ride and drive.

My question is would anyone like to help me flesh out an alternative history or help fill in holes to make it an interesting and somewhat believable history? My idea is to help give route builders new fuel to stoke the fires of the imagination. I feel this is the beauty of this sim...‘What if’?

What if steam was king?

My early idea is simple, the world has vastly more deposits of coal than we do now and oil is very rare and its main use is lubrication. With this the internal combustion engine is simply too expensive to operate economically. For trucking and personal transport we could use inventions from famous steam engineers like Besler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Besler and the wood powered engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas for a few examples of real inventions to be used for vehicles . Using imaginengineering we could come up with other things to maintain steams dominance over transportation.

It is my hope other writers will add to this thread and start others to make Trainz and T:ANE even more fun than it already is.

Dave

 

[cascaderailroad]

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?38433-PRR-Screenshots&p=459974#post459974

 

[bendorsey]

My scenario would be the narrow gauge never disappeared from Colorado. In fact it expanded to encompass all the Rockies including the Canadian Rockies. Perhaps even all the way into and throughout Alaska.

Engines as well. Inside frame 2-8-4's, 2-10-0's 2-10-2's, 2-6-6-2's, and even 2-8-8-2's for freight service and perhaps 4-6-2's and 4-8-2's for passenger service.

If your going to dream - dream big, lol.

Ben

 

[AntonyVW]

Im currently working (albeit very slowly) on my local route as a what if. What if the main industry in our town had not collapsed? What if the industrial area that existed in early 1900's was still in existence today? How different would my town look? What locos would be serving the industry?

 

[JCitron]

Hi Dave,

I have an extensive history of my own route which has evolved over the past decade since I started with TRS2004 back in December 2003. Starting a little bit of imagination and combine that with some real history, and you can have quite a backstory.

John