Railway Mania
 

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)
Fail Transport - 3 Trains / 1 Bus, 140 Casualties(#1,#2)
Unscrupulous Enterprises - 7 Trains 348 Casualties (#1)

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

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/img412/6...htransport.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2521/...b9c5982efc.jpg
^ A 'Coppernob' class locomotive.

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

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...amptonloco.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

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/...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

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...

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.

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

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/img220/2...ansports9t.jpg
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/4...ansports23.jpg

HunterICX

Fixed that for you. :yep:

Thank you, Hunter!

Nostalgic to get back to this old friend :).

GGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

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

Really wish I could start over.

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

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