Railway
Developed by Simon Royer, with help by Egi
This allows you to change the station tracks of the train station building you currently have selected from the menu for plopping.
Stations which have been plopped previously will not change their tracks, so it’s possible to plop the same station multiple times with different station tracks.
If some tracks can’t be replaced, that means they are either normal tracks (not station tracks) or some new or obscure type of station track which is not detected by the mod. In this case it’s possible to use Move It while holding Alt, or something like touch this to move/delete/upgrade these tracks, but there is a risk of breaking the paths of the station.
There are no specific cargo tracks, so it’s possible to use regular station tracks on any cargo station, but a side effect of that is the ability to place passenger train stops on them.
It also allows you to choose railway props used on the tracks, such as catenaries, buffers, signals, and crossing barriers. You are not forced to use an entire style, so you can mix catenaries from one style and buffers from another etc.
The prop selection UI can be opened by pressing SHIFT + ALT + P.
Makes overhead wires 3.5x thinner, to match their real life dimensions.
There is a basic set of props, which are used on the entire base set of tracks and also 3rd party tracks. They include things like the fishplate, tunnel darkener, fence beams, and some concrete boxes which match elevated and tunnel versions of the tracks.
These include single normal catenary, single end-catenary, single tunnel catenary, double normal catenary, double end-catenary, double tunnel catenary, right signal, left signal, short barrier, medium barrier, long barrier, very long barrier, and buffer.
On release, a pack of Swiss style railway props is available, which must be selected in the Railway Replacer by pressing SHIFT + ALT + P.
In the future there may be other full or partial styles by any creator. The props may also be plopped manually, and some packs may contain more props in addition to the ones you can select in Railway Replacer.
Swiss
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1574869113
Japanese
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1801633902
On release, three sets of tracks are available: Pavement Surface & Concrete Sleepers, Gravel Surface & Concrete Sleepers, Gravel Surface & Wooden Sleepers, all available in wired and wireless versions.
Each pack includes double and single versions of two-way and one-way tracks in all their elevations:
- Elevated tracks are very bare, borderless, pillarless, which are intended for custom elevated railyards or more complex custom builds.
- Bridge is a generic concrete elevated track with pillars, borders, fences.
- Slope(tunnel entrance) is intended to be completely flat(no elevation change) and it’s recommended to shorten it using move it.
- Tunnel works like any tunnel, but with visible interiors which get dark very quickly.
Nodeless tracks (basic and elevated only) are also included. As the name suggests, they have no nodes, which means the segments must be straight or have a continuous curve. An example of how nodeless tracks (shown on the bottom) offer an advantage in some situations:
Every pack also contains a set of station tracks. There are no specific cargo station tracks, because regular station tracks also work for cargo stations.
In addition to the base set of tracks, there are also different elevated and bridge assets to choose from. They are usually nodeless, therefore not intended for intersections.
Includes wire-only networks and decorative borders for use on the bare elevated tracks.
The initial releases (and hopefully future) of Railway have a consistent thumbnail style.
It usually follows this template:
The tracks, bridges and props are mostly very highly detailed, so you can think of your railyard as a huge very highly detailed building with highly detailed props on top of it.
The entire railway initial release is over 1 GB in file size, but most of it has the same big textures over and over, so loading screen mod should make the actual memory usage about 1/3 that. (baseless guesstimate)
All Railway networks require Network Tiling. The Swiss barriers require PropRotating Params.
Pillars show duplicate asset message, this is normal, because multiple tracks in the same pack use the same pillar, and CO’s implementation bundles pillars in the network.
LODs for all or some networks sometimes break – might have something to do with broken LOD texture atlas or incorrect uv remapping to the atlas. Not related to or caused by railway in particular, but might be related to having a lot of custom network assets.
Custom tracks can’t be used for outside connections – use a little segment of vanilla tracks for that.
Catenary Replacer is not relevant to Railway in any way, it doesn’t affect Railway tracks.
SingleTrainTrackAI has been updated to support these tracks.
PropItUp may have a similar hotkey to the Railway prop UI hotkey, so both may pop up.
If you have MOM, for train stations which include metro tracks, both UI may pop up.
guide by REV0
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1575478832
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1576365938
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1779465923
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1990417845
REV0 for traveling Switzerland to collect references, providing links to real railway documentation and measurements, testing, creating bridges for initial release.
Simon Royer for developing the mod, and Egi for stepping in to help finish it.
Testers: REV0, Johnny, leaderofthemonkeys, SimNationJan, Tim The Terrible.
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