Post your railroads!

[thomasthespacefox]

This topic is a nice little place for people to share their awesome railroad builds using the Advanced Trains mod by Orwell.

to get things started:
all aboard the Mountain Valley Express!

yes thats a 45-degree viaduct and station platform :)

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This station turned out quite well

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Carpathian mapgen. minetest v5

[thomasthespacefox]

Sloped Viaduct. also, the new train pitching in v5 looks awesome, thanks to v5's new entity rotation.

[yw05]

LinuxWorks Server (port 30000 at linux-forks.de) has tons of railway. You can find them at the server Wiki.
Here's some of them on the server (mainly related to Crossroads, as I am currently working on trains there).

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The Crossroads West Mountains - Silver Coast bridge in construction:

Railway map of ATL (a private railway company, map made by nanepiwo):

West Mountains Station, platform 1 (photo by Och_Noe):

Origin (Marcuse Str.) Station:

[yw05]

yes thats a 45-degree viaduct and station platform :)

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Another screenshot of a 45-deg. track:

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Also, I really don't recommend using only one track for the line unless it's a loop line (in my photo). With double tracks and interlocking (or LuaATC) it is possible to have multiple trains on the same line.

This station turned out quite well

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Unfortunately, train doors can't open on both sides at the same time. One of your platforms is useless. I would recommend replacing that unused platform with a banner showing the station name or something like that.

[thomasthespacefox]

This station turned out quite well

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Unfortunately, train doors can't open on both sides at the same time. One of your platforms is useless. I would recommend replacing that unused platform with a banner showing the station name or something like that.

I know that. Its just the slightly imperfect symmetry would bother me. :p

[yw05]

I know that. Its just the slightly imperfect symmetry would bother me. :p

Ok, but if you can have two train lines there you can actually use the other platform and keep it's look. At least you can consider placing another track at that platform even if you have no train running there (yet). Anyway, I would still recomming looking at the trains at the LinuxWorks Server. They have some nice train lines.

[yw05]

The advtrains_moreplatforms mod is quie interesting - also includes paths that do not block trains.

[thomasthespacefox]

Reworked Basecamp Station to have a whopping 4 tracks (with 2 more behind this point-of-view)

Was a pain to move the massive viaduct over a few nodes, but other than that it was easy enough.

[Hume2]

My recently built bridge on Tunnelers' Abyss, leading to Cody Island:

[Hume2]

Diagonal platforms o_O


And another of my diagonal bridges.

[Walker]

from my "RailWorld"-World xD:

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[voxelproof]

yes thats a 45-degree viaduct and station platform :)

That's something new... I was pretty sure that AdvTrains allows only 30 degrees angles of turns. Pretty interesting and refreshing so to speak :)

[orwell]

Yes, for single curves the maximum angle is somewhere around 30° (26.56° to be precise, which is arctan(1/2) ). But tracks exist in rotated forms of 0°, 30°, 45° and 60°.

[voxelproof]

Yes, for single curves the maximum angle is somewhere around 30° (26.56° to be precise, which is arctan(1/2) ). But tracks exist in rotated forms of 0°, 30°, 45° and 60°.

However I suppose that it is not possible to connect 'straight' track with the one rotated by 45°? (Forgive me a newbe question, I haven't used your mod yet albeit I find it one of the reasons of my lasting interest in Minetest).

EDIT Ok, I've looked into the manual and now everything clarified (I misunderstood your pretty obvious explanation). Great work by the way, thank you :)