Railway Mania

[HunterICX]

a OTTD MP AAR

Manager / Company

Jamie - British Transport
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7959/31101675.jpg
Wilhelmus - Royal Cheese Transport
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4567/40116027.jpg
Arclight - TransArc
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9913/22619189.jpg
Thomas Hogarth!!! - Unscrupulous Enterprises
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7417/47940066.jpg
MrForce - Fail Transport
http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/7229/44521738.jpg

Railway Disasters:

British Transport - 2 Trains 148 Casualties (#1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1578814&postcount=33))
Fail Transport - 3 Trains / 1 Bus, 140 Casualties(#1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1579087&postcount=37),#2 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1580786&postcount=45))
Unscrupulous Enterprises - 7 Trains 348 Casualties (#1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1580697&postcount=43))

Tutorials:

Signals -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_AVJjnotc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DrqwxgIMTU
http://wiki.openttd.org/Signals

OTTD version (stable) 1.0.5
Addons beeing used:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9043/addonsq.png

more to come soon...

HunterICX

[Oberon]

British Transport starts out, as it always does, with coal routes, where the money is. A slight mistake is made by spreading out on a 0-6-0 goods loco, a little too early for such running costs, but it gets the coal there faster.
Coppernobs are used for the remainder of routes, and three six-horse carriages are used on a subsidied route for some extra coinage.

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6803/britishtransport.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2521/3865814454_b9c5982efc.jpg
^ A 'Coppernob' class locomotive.

http://d240vprofozpi.cloudfront.net/locos/J/j40_065.jpg
^ A Johnson 0-6-0 goods locomotive

[Oberon]

The Coppernobs were too unreliable, so they will be phased out in favour of the Cramptons.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/1846Cramptonloco.jpg
^ Crampton locomotive

Meanwhilein the middle of nowhere, a lone Patentee trundles backwards and forwards with the name 'Slow Freight' written on its tender, going nowhere and doing nothing but losing money.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8083/tf1o.jpg

[Oberon]

Passenger services begin on British Transport with Midland Spinners and 'Lady' classes taking the strain.

http://train-photos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/8227.jpg
Midland Spinner

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwr/nuneaton/station/lnwrns1634.jpg
Lady (of the lake) class


Meanwhile, TransArc folds, only to be reborn anew and shoot up the leader board like a rat up a drainpipe, Slow Freight is renamed to Fail Transport but undergoes a reorganisation and manages to start scraping a small profit in some areas. Unscrupulous Enterprises flounders under an ambitious ferry scheme, is renamed Bankrupt Industries and abandoned. Thomas Hogarth!!! flees to Switzerland, gets some money from the Swiss mafia and starts again.

1898:

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/5105/1898u.jpg

[Raptor1]

Technically it's spelled THOMAS HOGARTH!!!!!!, but the game doesn't allow that. :O:

The new Unscrupulous Enterprises is doing nicely, probably because it has managed to avoid charges of industrial espionage, sabotage, money laundering and tax evasion so far.

EDIT: Scratch that, stupid rail collisions...

[Task Force]

well, I started bad. ( I forgot how to play the game over the years, heh) But soon I got up & running, around 60,000 income a year.

Ill do better next map, after this.

[NeonSamurai]

Been a while since i played OTTD but are you guys running mods? I don't recall those vehicles or that start date

[HunterICX]

Been a while since i played OTTD but are you guys running mods? I don't recall those vehicles or that start date

Yes, we run some addons that add more rail sets,Road vehicles, Aircraft/Airships and ships.
and some addons that adjust the looks of towns and cities to be a bit more proper for the timeline.

the locomotives are really expensive, and in this timeline you really have to keep check whether the train you just built is making money or is costing you money. Also I noticed that some locomotives become more expensive
first for me a Crampton costs £19.000 and now they cost £22-23,000.

HunterICX

[Crécy]

Yes, we run some addons that add more rail sets,Road vehicles, Aircraft/Airships and ships.
and some addons that adjust the looks of towns and cities to be a bit more proper for the timeline.

HunterICX

Care to inform which mods you are talking about?

[HunterICX]

Care to inform which mods you are talking about?

I've updated the 1st post with the list and the OTTD version we use :)

And here some shots of my little rail network.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/237/royalcheesetransports9t.jpg
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4285/royalcheesetransports23.jpg

HunterICX

[Oberon]

And here some shots of my insane rail spiders web.




HunterICX

Fixed that for you. :yep:

[Crécy]

I've updated the 1st post with the list and the OTTD version we use :)

HunterICX

Thank you, Hunter!

Nostalgic to get back to this old friend :).

[Task Force]

GGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

I wish I had made my rails in one area. Now its spread all over the map...

Really wish I could start over.

[Raptor1]

At least you didn't lose 70,000 pounds in bloody rail collisions...

[Task Force]

Yea, it would appear your train drivers are all drunk.

[Arclight]

I've yet to figure out the signals myself. Is nice they modeled it in such detail (I'm impressed, doesn't happen often), but a bit more detail/clarity in some documentation would be nice.

[Oberon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_AVJjnotc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DrqwxgIMTU

This might help a little bit.

Or

http://wiki.openttd.org/Signals

[Oberon]

Much to my surprise, the years had advanced in my departure, by about five in fact, so I was rather lucrative, the loans were all paid off, and the locomotives upgraded from Cramptons to Johnson Goods class as the Cramptons were now getting rather unreliable.
A new locomotive is now on the scene, the '2-2-0 Edwardian', aka the Midland Railway 1000 class:

http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=115274

[Oberon]

1913....something ominous appears in the skies...

Doom...crawls across the landscape...

The KLM Lucifer and The slow Zeppelin of Doom take to the sky.

http://www.altfrankfurt.com/Spezial/Zeppelin/ILA1909/pic/FFM_ZEPPELIN_UND_PARSEVAL_UEBER_DEM_ROEMER_1909.jp g

Doomsday cuckoo clock (made in Switzerland) moved forward.

[Task Force]

YAY, I have all the zeppelins!

[Raptor1]

YAY, I have all the zeppelins!

Not anymore!

[Oberon]

Now my secret weapon is complete...a weapon so great and terrible that none shall be able to surpass it...my great valuables carrying fleet...I shall rule the world...I shall...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2EPJUI5nVXk/SfnE7Bdis2I/AAAAAAAABTk/1xsDJw5R2EU/s400/spa_train_robbery_080910_ssh.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1EJ3G8Npis

Oh, son of a... :nope:

[HunterICX]

Ah mate, just wait till it gets 1944 :O:

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/1349/traini.jpg

HunterICX

[Oberon]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45694000/jpg/_45694962_000192799-1.jpg
HunterICX

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/aug2009/6/9/image-4-for-whatever-happened-to-the-great-train-robbers-gallery-71982829.jpg
Raptor1

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/aug2009/7/5/image-3-for-whatever-happened-to-the-great-train-robbers-gallery-866413820.jpg
Arclight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38772000/jpg/_38772573_robberreynolds238.jpg
Task Force


Bonus points if you get the real names of these men and what they did. :yep:

[Oberon]

I do have one request though, if a person has to leave the game early, can we not continue the game without them, as I think it is a little unfair. After all, they cannot respond to new vehicle offers, they cannot replace old vehicles and they cannot expand. Yes, they will gain money, but if their fleet becomes ancient and unreliable then eventually they will begin to dip and perhaps even lose money. Furthermore, if one of their vehicles is destroyed, they cannot replace it.

[HunterICX]

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 and I'm Ronnie Biggs :)

about server closure, well I'm fine to close down when someone goes off for the night.

The status of each company just before close down of last night:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2493/88836902.jpg

HunterICX

[Oberon]

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 and I'm Ronnie Biggs :)
HunterICX

Correctomundo. :yep:

[Arclight]

Buster Edwards, and obviously I cheated to figure that out. :lol:

[Oberon]

Buster Edwards, and obviously I cheated to figure that out. :lol:

:03: Interesting but pointless fact, the flower stall that Buster Edwards ran under Waterloo station until his suicide in '94 is still there with BUSTER written on the side.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Buster.jpg

[Oberon]

BTW Hunter you sod, I should have twigged what you were up to with so many buses and trams...the old 'improve reputation with thousands of bus services' trick. No wonder you shot up the chart. :damn:

[HunterICX]

He...wasn't really my goal :)
As most of the towns and cities on the map are still too small for a big railway line, I noticed that trams and buses make for a good profitable alternative.

but don't worry....Oberon
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3339/baldrick100main99.jpg

wit trains too

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Well, as long as it's not like Raptors cunning plans with trains:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7_gMFng3OpY/RkoQ-w1W_II/AAAAAAAABks/0uQHWRrPwxY/s400/crushpic1.jpg

Raptor practicing for OTTD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxJtMoTnx8

[Oberon]

Pride comes before a fall:

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4747/britishtransport27thjul.png

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=82673

[Task Force]

I MUST BEAT YOU OBERON!!! You cant kill more people than me!

[HunterICX]

First post updated with the Tutorials found by Oberon, if you find more please share :yeah:

and a Railway Disaster log
Raptor IIRC you had 2 trains crashed too correct? with how many casualties?

perhaps later today I'll add cut outs of the in-game company summary(amount of vehicles, company value) under each name and try to keep it up to date after each game session.

HunterICX

[Raptor1]

First post updated with the Tutorials found by Oberon, if you find more please share :yeah:

and a Railway Disaster log
Raptor IIRC you had 2 trains crashed too correct? with how many casualties?

perhaps later today I'll add cut outs of the in-game company summary(amount of vehicles, company value) under each name and try to keep it up to date after each game session.

HunterICX

I think I lost 5 trains in 3 separate collisions (One of them going into the wreckage of the first collision), which would add up to 20 killed.

[Oberon]

I believe Task Force lost three trains, two in the head on collision and then one more coming out of the depot into the collision, so 105 plus 4.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1086/britishtransport14thnov.png

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9964/britishtransport20thdec.png
Will scour for more tutorials, there's quite a few out there I'd wager, lots of strategies. :yep:

[HunterICX]

First post updated again with the up-to-date Company Summary of each player

HunterICX

[Schroeder]

Are you using a mod pack or do I really have to hunt those things down one by one?:dead:

[HunterICX]

Are you using a mod pack or do I really have to hunt those things down one by one?:dead:

http://www.mediafire.com/?oolxn3ct40ly2yf

Copy and paste this in the on top of the Data folder located in the main folder of OTTD
in that pack are most of the addons we have enabled, just a few missing which are easy to find in the in-game modlist

go to NewGRF (this is also where you enable the addons*) then click on the button which says Search Online Content a list will be shown and you just have to tag the ones you need and click download.

*Read carefully, there are some various versions in that data pack so make sure you enable the right one
in case of the UKRCS we use 0.7 which is shown in the description of the mod and the Addon pack

HunterICX

[Schroeder]

Thanks.:salute:

[Lionclaw]

Thanks. :up:

[Oberon]

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2471/britishtransport22ndapr.png
Raptor, as he vowed, takes the lead

[Task Force]

Nice job raptor. Now I need to try to crash more trains.

[HunterICX]

Task Force Fail Transport's Bus ran over by Task Force Fail Transport's train

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2171/royalcheesetransports8t.jpg

HunterICX

[NeonSamurai]

Wow you guys really need to learn the signaling system. I never have any crashes on the ground.

[Arclight]

Neither did I. :D

And yes, signals are awesome.

[Raptor1]

With each of my collisions, the signaling system was perfectly fine. It was my attempts to micromanage some lost trains back on track that caused them.

[Task Force]

My issue was train A went past the signal just when train B came out of the depot, and well, crap happend, oah, then train C came out of the depot and ran into the wreckage of A/B.

Oah, and that bus had a retarted driver.

[Raptor1]

Oah, and that bus had a retarted driver.

Must be a dropout from the Men of War truck driver school... :O:

[Task Force]

Yep, I also had the guy who interviewed him shot. He should have seen that...:shifty:

[NeonSamurai]

With each of my collisions, the signaling system was perfectly fine. It was my attempts to micromanage some lost trains back on track that caused them.

Ah so you were running the signals then?

My issue was train A went past the signal just when train B came out of the depot, and well, crap happend, oah, then train C came out of the depot and ran into the wreckage of A/B.

That shouldn't happen as the depots have their own signals built in (they act as pre-signals) unless you ordered the trains to run the signals or something. Though this being multiplayer maybe lag is an issue.

Road vehicles are always at risk at crossings if they are slow and dealing with fast trains. I usually either tunnel under or bridge over the track to avoid that.

[Spike88]

Road vehicles are always at risk at crossings if they are slow and dealing with fast trains. I usually either tunnel under or bridge over the track to avoid that.


The buses don't stop at rail crossings?

[Oberon]

The buses don't stop at rail crossings?

Either that or the train is faster than the bus, thus it catches the bus mid-crossing.

[NeonSamurai]

They stop at crossings, but trains often catch them while mid crossing (later stage trains are way to fast for vehicles to safely avoid). Safer just to bridge or tunnel over the track.

There were some evil tricks using trains you could use against AI road vehicles.

[Task Force]

Today was a great day for the subsim transport league. I lost 2 trains(265 casultys IIRC), and had one train run over 4 or 5 of raptors buses, by the end of the day it was covered in bus parts.

[Raptor1]

Hell, so many things got demolished today that I think everybody lost track of the casualties already.

[Task Force]

Yea, Still, Not up to death standards... needs more crashes!

[HunterICX]

:hmmm: For some reason I do not get a News Article about the crashes...but it is set to ''Full'' in the News messages settings

so unless anybody else took screenshots of the articles we can confirm the total amount of casualties of those crashes.

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Well, what do you know. My workplace has an internet connection... :yeah:

Can't do IL2 or MOW, but OTTD is still a go. :rock:

[Task Force]

YAY! I can also start my air service! As we now have some decent planes.

[Oberon]

I would have to drop out of the game after 10:45pm GMT though because that's when I finish work, but then I could probably jump back in when I get home which normally takes me about half an hour.

[Oberon]

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/NewSitePOD/POD02_11.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12MQKHB5D_Y

[Oberon]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5091046252_99d88e3056.jpg

BR Blue time has begun! :rock: Finally, we're getting near an railway era that I can remember! :haha: (Although since most of the rolling stock I used to see as a kid was made in the 1960s I guess that's not surprising).

Oh, and especially for Hunter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex7wxBG5gJk

[HunterICX]

:DL that horn is just too cute :haha:

HunterICX

[Task Force]

Lol, yea, cool little train.

In other news Plane crashes! Plane crashes everywhere!!!

(I also take the casualty lead)

[HunterICX]

:DL

http://wiki.openttd.org/Scenarios_Based_on_Real_World

maybe something for the next TTD world?

HunterICX

[Arclight]

I propose strict limits on vehicle numbers next time. Makes quality of service actually mean something, as opposed to spamming anything and everything.

I'll put on the blindfold and stand at the wall now.

[Task Force]

FOR UNCLE SAMS German railways are doing well.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4529/desktop2011021620030359.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/999/desktop2011021620030628.jpg
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4382/desktop2011021620031070.jpg
Though some places are really *******ed up after WW2, and the picture quality really sucks.

[Weiss Pinguin]

AUGH BUGGER NOOOOOOOOO

decided to check out OTTD after reading this thread... I don't think I'll get anything done tomorrow :nope: Or any sleep tonight for that matter...

[Lord_magerius]

You don't want to be looking at spoons Oberon, you want a nice tractor instead :yeah: Maybe a little soup from 906 won't hurt :O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRkm0Imzq6M&feature=related

[HunterICX]

AUGH BUGGER NOOOOOOOOO

decided to check out OTTD after reading this thread... I don't think I'll get anything done tomorrow :nope: Or any sleep tonight for that matter...

:haha:
It's a curse...''One more track & Train..just one more then I quit''
*1 1/2 - 2 hours and 6 new train tracks later*
''Just one moooore....''

:har:

HunterICX

[Oberon]

You don't want to be looking at spoons Oberon, you want a nice tractor instead :yeah: Maybe a little soup from 906 won't hurt :O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRkm0Imzq6M&feature=related

Classic growler clag there. Very nice, very nice indeed! :yeah:

712 is a bit pyrotechnical too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxAK-Vp5PM

My Lordz! :rock:

[HunterICX]

This is one way to piss off environmentalists :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOj6gPwkiXg&feature=related

and one a more dramatic note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG91fYHcm-k&feature=related

HunterICX

[Oberon]

This is one way to piss off environmentalists :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOj6gPwkiXg&feature=related

and one a more dramatic note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG91fYHcm-k&feature=related

HunterICX

Hellfire Whistler startup there! :yeah:

Here's a nice bit of Grid clag:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9BBeLv6X_Y

Of course, it doesn't always go well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VENJeoUK0&NR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrz82x3_LkM

[HunterICX]

^Nice clag passing by :D

''clearing the exhaust'' :O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6A71jTl3c&feature=related

HunterICX

[Weiss Pinguin]

:haha:
It's a curse...''One more track & Train..just one more then I quit''
*1 1/2 - 2 hours and 6 new train tracks later*
''Just one moooore....''

:har:

HunterICX
"Just one more track... WAIT the airliner from X to Y needs replacement... WAIT that route is no good anymore, I need to rebuild... WAIT-"

On a side note, when I was setting up last night I couldn't find some of the addons listed in the first post :hmmm:

[HunterICX]

On a side note, when I was setting up last night I couldn't find some of the addons listed in the first post :hmmm:

Some are listed in the ''check online content'' list in the game...the rest has been taken from the OTTD forums.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1579828&postcount=40 :salute:

so you'll probally find what you're missing in that data pack.

HunterICX

[Lord_magerius]

I think I might have to fire OTTD up again on this computron and join you guys at some point :)

[Weiss Pinguin]

Some are listed in the ''check online content'' list in the game...the rest has been taken from the OTTD forums.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1579828&postcount=40 :salute:

so you'll probally find what you're missing in that data pack.

HunterICX
Thanks much :salute:

[Oberon]

^Nice clag passing by :D

''clearing the exhaust'' :O:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6A71jTl3c&feature=related

HunterICX

Good bit of EE Type 3 throat clearing there. :yeah:

[Weiss Pinguin]

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT SIGNALS sort of. I will now celebrate by going to sleep. :yep:

[Oberon]

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2417/britishtransport20thmay.png

RED - Task Force
BLUE - Raptor
LIGHT GREEN - Oberon
GREEN - Hunter

[Task Force]

While not at the top of the business lists FOR UNCLE SAM is dong pretty well... But Berlin is dead...

[Oberon]

While not at the top of the business lists FOR UNCLE SAM is dong pretty well... But Berlin is dead...

It's 1953, half of Berlin is on fire.

http://www.sem20.com/the-cover/images/17juni.jpg

[Pioneer]

I see red, I see blue, I see green in the British Isles out of London, but am struggling to see another green.

The faint line in Ireland?

[Oberon]

I see red, I see blue, I see green in the British Isles out of London, but am struggling to see another green.

The faint line in Ireland?

It's a sorta Aqua Green, yeah there are lines in Ireland and around Liverpool, Northern England and down to the South-West.

[Oberon]

I honestly don't know what's up with the laptop. It works just fine and then about five-ten minutes in, it starts working on something and then wham, massive cursor and game lag which remains until I drop out. Can't do a damn thing.
Offline it works fine, no lag at all, but online it just can't hack it. :damn:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Firewall or antivirus maybe? Although that's more of a shot in the dark :hmmm:

[Lord_magerius]

You using wireless? I know OpenTTD has had problems in the past with connections on wireless networks for some strange reason.

[Oberon]

Not wi-fi...but could be firewall... :hmmm:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Yeah I'd check to make sure proper privileges are allowed for OTTD then go from there.

[Oberon]

Right, I've defragged about seven times, cleared up some more free space and told the firewall to allow OpenTTD. If it still goes laggy I don't know what the heck it is. :hmmm:

[Oberon]

I've pondered at something that might have changed. I did upgrade the drivers on my graphics card on the laptop....so I will system restore back before then and see what happens.

Meanwhile:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4346/britishtransport3rdnov1.png
Krushchevs autobahn

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9440/britishtransport7thsep1.png

[Lord_magerius]

Decided to set up an MGR (Merry go round) system with all my freight services, apart from goods, it works quite well.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/BritishFail2ndJun1951.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/BritishFail22ndNov1952.png

[Oberon]

Very nice. Pity UKRS doesn't have Grids in it. :rock:

[Lord_magerius]

Wouldn't mind a 40 and a 50 too, maybe a tug as well :)

[Oberon]

A Whistler would be lovely, and a Hoover, remember them going out of Waterloo in the 80s. A doughnut would be nice, but they're a bit too modern for me, my diesel likings range from the Southern Region in the 80s although I do love Cans and the odd Ying because of their use on the GEML which is where I now live.
UKRS updated last week, there's the Super-Skoda, Turborat and Electrorat in there now as well as a Steamer, the Long Boiler:

http://users.tt-forums.net/pikka/wiki/images/7/7d/Longboiler.jpg

A Vomiter, Dusty Bin, 325, Britannia and Plastic Pig are in the works. I'd love to see a Thumper put in there too...would go just lovely on the Southern map I'm doing right now, early EMUs all over the place, waiting for the 4CIGs and CEPs to come out now.

I miss the old slam doors...

[TteFAboB]

Is that a bridge between the boot of Italy and Sicily, and elsewhere?

[HunterICX]

Is that a bridge between the boot of Italy and Sicily, and elsewhere?

Yes,

you could say Raptor is quite busy changing the shape of the European Continent.

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Lesson One:
When working on or about the line, always remember to put equipment back where you found it – such as points, for example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbOUgr_r-E).
Lesson Two:
On single line tracks, ensure you have the token before moving your train (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGySun2PMU).
If you aren’t sure if you have the token, don’t move
If there isn’t a token available, give up and come back tomorrow.
Lesson Three:
Beware of poor track. Be prepared to stop quickly in the event that you notice something amiss (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzo9cm0IqU).
Lesson Four:
There will be days when you don’t actually need to be working to make a Horlicks of yourself on the railway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaKyssVsFs).

[HunterICX]

Lesson #1: Ouch! :dead:

Here's a lesson in nipping over the railway crossing when the barriers are comming down...just don't :O:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBcHr_hhDU8&NR=1

it's old...but the commentary just makes me laugh :haha:

HunterICX

[Task Force]

Lol, I'm not stopping im a train!

[Lord_magerius]

It's not OpenTTD but it is railway related. Just knocked up a few reskins in Trainz today. Not bad for my first attempts I suppose. All liveries that are shown here have never been carried by the locomotives they are on :03:

GNER 47xxx
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/GNER47.jpg

66840 in sector coal livery
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/66840.jpg

40145 in DRS colours
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/40145DRS.jpg

40135 in EWS
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/40135EWS.jpg

Finally, 37555 in National Express. Still need to finish the weathering on this one.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/37NE.jpg

[Oberon]

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1227/britishrailways9thaug18.png
Another day, another Raptor-based design of death and destruction

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2066/irishrepublicanarmy28th.png
British Railways - Dark Green
Irish Republican Army - Light Green
TransArc - Red

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1888/britishtransport6thdec1.png
Be grateful we didn't start in 1801...there's only horses to pull coal wagons, they don't make much money and the ships suck. Finally got my first locomotive in 1802...this thing:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/162577268_223714d97d.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJaboxC3Do

It runs as fast as an asthmatic donkey... :damn:

[Task Force]

Yea, one hill and your dead.:yep:

[Task Force]

The railway madness gets Madder!
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3720/ottdo.jpg
By the mid 20th century Britain will just be rails and traffic jam.

[Oberon]

That's pretty historically accurate... :yep::har:

Meanwhile in 1810...

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2379/britishtransport27thoct.png

March, my asthmatic donkeys! March to (slow) victory!!

[Oberon]

Huzzah! A new rail vehicle has been invented! My asthmatic donkeys can be upgraded to Three-legged Ponies!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Puffing_Billy_1862.jpg

But before the Three-Legged Pony could make its proper debute, two Asthmatic donkeys tried to occupy the same stretch of track...it didn't go well...

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8397/britishtransport15thsep.png

The worlds slowest crash? Probably, yes... :yep:

[Task Force]

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/5654/ottd2.jpg
Slow Transports humble beginnings. Horse and Donkey spam!!!

[Task Force]

Slow transportation Co. gets alot faster, and larger.
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8384/ottd3.jpg
The company is now worth over 2 million pounds and adding on numerous different lines from its center in London.

London has pretty much devoured all the little city's around it, you cannot tell where it starts and they end.

[Task Force]

Slow transport's expansion by 1900.
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5193/ottd5.jpg
These trains are VERY expensive though, as are horses.

[DeMeza]

I could really use some guiddance when it comes to placing signals (and the correct ones) when I have multiple tracks going to a single tracked station. Also when I have a single tracked station, with trains arriving from both ends..

Parked trains at red signals aren't really making any money.. :nope:

[Falkirion]

Always try and run dual tracks? Other than that, I figure a passing loop every couple of kms should at least keep your trains running. Who've thought my RL job would come in handy for a game? (I work in railway industry)

Have a look at the OTTD wiki too. Pair of good railway constructions articles when it comes to stations and signalling.
Stations
http://wiki.openttd.org/Building_railway_stations
Signals
http://wiki.openttd.org/Building_signals

[Task Force]

My advice, if you have the money do a 4 rail system 2 going one way, 2 going anouther, and put signals telling the trains what way to go every 8 to 12 grids.

[Oberon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_absolute_block_signalling

http://wiki.openttd.org/Signals#Path_Signals

[Lord_magerius]

Decided to get a bit ambitious with my network :D
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y226/Toffeeapple/Omniumrail-29th-Sep-1913.jpg

[Oberon]

You know when you have a coal subsidence in OTTD when you have disasters on? And if it hits your track it removes it?

This is what happens in real life:

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3261/bc69hcuaet4am.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6148/bc7gde1cyaaesec.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7385/1302hatfieldstainforth2.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

You know when you have a coal subsidence in OTTD when you have disasters on? And if it hits your track it removes it?

This is what happens in real life:


Hatfield near Donny - what a hole that place was, I used to go there a lot when I was fixing white goods!

[HunterICX]

Huh first I thought which idiot hired cheap labour again :hmmm::O:

HunterICX

[Oberon]

Still, could be worse.

http://lindal-in-furness.co.uk/Heritage/Hole2Lge.jpg

http://lindal-in-furness.co.uk/Heritage/lindalhole.htm

The locomotive is still down there.

[HunterICX]

:huh: Holy crap.....

HunterICX

[Herr-Berbunch]

Still, could be worse.

http://lindal-in-furness.co.uk/Heritage/lindalhole.htm

The locomotive is still down there.

:o Gosh

[Oberon]

You know when you have a coal subsidence in OTTD when you have disasters on? And if it hits your track it removes it?

This is what happens in real life:

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/3261/bc69hcuaet4am.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6148/bc7gde1cyaaesec.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7385/1302hatfieldstainforth2.jpg

Several months later:

http://imageshack.us/a/img32/7184/w78m.jpg

[Betonov]

Looking at this I begin to wonder, where's my Railroad Tycoon II copy :hmmm: