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Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 16:40
by BritDriver
I have seen many forum users have discussed about their ideas of their map, including a Spanish and American one. So I've decided to show my own ideas about a British map based on London in the 1980s. It would include two tube-style rolling stocks, the (pre-refurbished) 1967 and 1986 tube stocks.
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I have also included the map for it: https://twitter.com/friend_inc/status/9 ... 7482013696

(The year of the map is 1988)
This is just my idea, it could change over time with the trains, theme, etc.

Re: Map idea

Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 18:11
by RotterdamMetroLover
It's going to be impossible because you have to find a really good sketchup for the model. Is that correct Sjoerd?

Re: Map idea

Posted: 28 Jan 2018, 18:42
by Sjoerd
There actually is a very good LU 1973 stock available. But a previous attempt a few months ago to import it into my 3D program failed; the model file size was probably too big, and it would not load. Perhaps I'll do a new attempt in the future, stripping the model into smaller components before transferring them one by one. ;)

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 06:19
by LosAngelesMetro56
This topic states Map idea so I going to temporarily hijack it.

So remember the Blue Line remake I purposed? I did some thinking about other routes in the Metro Rail system and decided that the Gold Line is a better route to remake. The line is mostly on a private Right-o-Way but has tunneling, elevated, street running, and freeway median running (sampling the vibes of the other lines).
Del Mar Blvd Station with Condos
Del Mar Blvd Station with Condos
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Pasadena Memorial Park Station
Pasadena Memorial Park Station
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Maravilla Station on 3rd Street
Maravilla Station on 3rd Street
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More info can be provided via wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Li ... les_Metro)

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 11:58
by Alfacinha315
You could recreate Tren Urbano de San Juan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_Urbano

Or, the Lisbon metro in 1988. I could help with the last one. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... t_1988.PNG

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 12:04
by Alfacinha315
Here's another great idea: the Cascais line, in Lisbon, probably with SG2 or SG3 trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX6yWFvWC5s

Or, why not the Sintra line? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agsfD7aJtM

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 12:22
by Sjoerd
I would really like to make the Alicante - Benidorm - Denia line. It has a subway section in the Alicante city center, a long tramway section along the beach, and some very scenic mountain parts (changing over to a diesel-powered railway at Benidorm, which is in the proces of transformation to tram exploitation), eventually ending in Denia.

https://youtu.be/wS44lY2j5P0
https://youtu.be/gEduBASTDx8

But the current editor just does not support the terrain along large parts of the route, so it could never be as realistic as I would like it to be.
Therefore, I can only represent this beautiful line by the Denia terminus in the Rijndam network. ;)

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 19:59
by BritDriver
So as Sjoerd is making a tube train, I plan to add authentic British scenery, which includes stations. There might be ones looking like these examples:

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This one was never built but looks superb:
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(Images from Wikipedia, flickr, Geograph, Wikimedia, VIPA.)

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 20:07
by RotterdamMetroLover
Not yet, I believe.

Re: Map idea

Posted: 04 Feb 2018, 20:16
by Sjoerd
BritDriver wrote: 04 Feb 2018, 19:59 So as Sjoerd is making a tube train....
I haven't made any promises...!
I said "Perhaps I'll do a new attempt in the future" (I have tried before, but the model didn't load in my software). I am not sure yet if I do it or not. Time will tell.... Anyway, IF I do it, it will be this model; goo.gl/ZM7y9E ;)

And that station that was never build.... They began building it, but never finished. The remains are still there :D
https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.6232838, ... a=!3m1!1e3