Re: [OT] You know you're a hardcore railfan when...

[Gobbledok <chippies@ihug.com.au>]

Jonathan Lau wrote:

> Gobbledok wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > ...when you play a game like Transport Tycoon, and only use trains
>
> Other forms of transport in TT are inefficent. Railways are the way to go.
> Have you tried to emulate the Hunter Valley coalfields? 9 wagon coal trains with a
> single Eurostar 7000hp engine running to mines and then to power stations in a loop
> configuation are very big money makers. :)
>
> > ...when you spend 15 minutes playing around with ticket machines finding out how
> > much the longest journey on the Cityrail network would cost, then looking at
> > timetables to see the shortest period of time to do it in.
>
> Longest journey would be from Scone to Goulburn. Rail distance: 513.54km Cost: $29
> single, $58 return, $34 off peak return.
>
> Scone dep: 5:56am
> Hamiliton arr: 7:56am (change for Central service)
> Hamiliton dep: 8:03am
> Central arr: 10:21am
> Central dep: 3:46pm
> Goulburn arr: 6:46pm
>
> Journey time: 12 hours, 50 minutes. (with a 5 hour 25 minute wait for next Goulburn
> train at Central).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon Lau

I have lately been mucking around with a Transport Tycoon patch, so that I can run 84
car coal trains in an approximate Hunter Valley set-up...my only wish was that the
landscape of Transport Tycoon could be bigger, so I could include a fairly decent long
distance train service (ie XPT)