Rijndam

[Sjoerd]

Time consuming...

How do your president candidates typically call it? I might need more staff to do this, so I am creating more J.O.B.S.

[LosAngelesMetro56]

Hehe

[Sjoerd]

Also, I am thinking; a series of extra switches at the back, and tracks beyond them to accommodate full train lengths for shunting movements; they don't only take up a lot of space, but also cost a lot of money (land acquisition, buying and laying tracks, and maintenance). And you are probably not going to use all of those tracks on a daily basis. I do not know how much a railway switch costs (let alone a whole series of them to connect all those tracks), but saving those costs might be enough to give a few more people a job at the depot

[LosAngelesMetro56]

Do they actually cost in the editor?

[Sjoerd]

Haha
No, in the editor you can build a million switches if you like, and you are only spending time doing it

[LosAngelesMetro56]

YUS

[Michiel]

the Utrecht tram system is of the same quality as the Sneltram sections in Rotterdam

Actually there is one big difference: the curve radius. While Rotterdam uses a curves radius similar to heavy rail, Utrecht (and also Los Angeles) has curves that are a lot more tight. While the Rotterdam metro uses switches with a tangent of 1:9, these cities use something like 1:5 on the yards. The Rotterdam metros don't even fit through those, 1:7 is the minimal for them. Hence making a loop in Rotterdam takes a lot more space then it would in these other cities, as the minimal curve radius requires is about four times as large.

Right now the editor only contains 1:9, 1:12 and 1:20 switches, so these tight train yards as in Los Angeles is not even possible right now.

[LosAngelesMetro56]

Right now the editor only contains 1:9, 1:12 and 1:20 switches, so these tight train yards as in Los Angeles is not even possible right now.

Darn. R.I.P. my Blue Line yard layout.

[kinkisharyo]

I was thinking if there is actually three new maps are in construction?

[Sjoerd]

I was thinking if there is actually three new maps are in construction?

Please put questions that are not strictly Rijndam-related into a separate topic.

Personally, I am only working on the Rijndam network (containing several metro-lines).