Wow, an 82 degree downhill slope eh? What route are you gonna use that on? haha. I've experimented with gradients and the steepest I've done is -1000, (-100%), that's only a 45 degree slope. That has the same affect, the train goes 300 km/h and the brakes are totally useless in slowing it down.
I love this thread. I have had several ideas generated from here that should be fun, not useful, but fun. Maybe we need to start a Special Interset Group for Fantasy and Toy Railroads or some one host a contest for this class of systems.
The track was retained from Odeon Jcn to Railway Station (past City Interchange) for access to an industrial works. After campaigns from the residents due to the rubbish bus service after a takeover from First, a limited tram service was reinstated. Money was tight and trams were made up of old double deckers which had been stored on the disused track in Town Hall Square (the line had been singled), coupled in pairs. One of the pair had a diesel engine fitted in place of one bay of seats : the electric motors often broke down. After a derailment when a motor gave up the ghost and fell onto the track (!) the whole service was withdrawn. A lot of H$E paperwork followed. Northernville Transport Corperation staff stumbled upon a collection of about 20 historic NTC tramcars which someone had stored in a custom built garage in their backyard! Agreements were made, bypassing H$E checks on new rolling stock due to grandfather rights, and a service was soon restored. Around this time the Sheffield Supertram was re-equipping with new rolling stock and old supertrams were bought and reused on a web of old routes which had been reinstated rather cheaply. Just before the trams stopped running, an act of parliament was passed which stated that any tram systems should not be tarmac'd over but steel girders placed on top of the old road, followed by steel sheets on which the new tarmac could be laid. The idea was that should the routes be needed again they could easily be reinstated, and it worked! The Supertrams ran all the routes, with the twin double deckers occasionally filling in for a supertram under repair, and supplementing them in Peak Hours. Managers thought it would be a good idea to Scrap them, and they were accordingly loaded onto the backs of lorries. Just as one was about to leave, a worker at a power station slipped and fell between two extreamly high voltage contacts, frying himself and cutting off the power. The H$E decided to close it down for investication and so went the NTC's electricity. The diesel tramcars provided a skeleton service, with recently withdrawn class 144 pacers helping. Around 2025, the Supertrams fell for replacement. Jobs in Northernville were getting very hard to find. Then, the Mayor had an idea...
He had recently read a newspaper article about modern children knowing very little about history. After some contacts with the Government, it was established that Northernville would be converted into a history learning centre for children and adults alike. It would be run in a 1950's style. Of course the trams would play a major part in this. Amazingly, 30 1870's built tramcars, withdrawn after WWI and sent to help Czechoslovakians set up a tram system in Prauge, were found in service on peak hour services in Prauge. They were repatriated and restored. Each of the 24 repatriated cars (2 had been damaged in a WWII bombing raid and 4 were damaged beyond repair in a depot collision the day before shipping to the UK) had a different style, ranging from the origional 1870s livery right through to the 2023 introduced livery of Prauge Transport which they carried. The historical town of Northernville opened for the public to visit and to live in on 16th April 2030. Response was huge, and several replica 1940's road coaches were built to ferry schoolchildren in from all over the country. Several people at the reopening ceremony had lived in the town during the 1950s and commented on how everything was correct : one even said the chips at Stooopid's Chippy were still famously undercooked! A H$E inspection soon sorted that though! The town continues to thrive both as a tourist attraction and a town for people to live in and should do well into the future.
Anyway, I have been doing some dreaming too, and I though of a Legoland BVE route? (sorta toytown?!) Where every thing had those studs in standard colors? (could use the Cylinder command to make the round studs.)
Or am I just thinking of a way to add to this loooooong list of ideas?
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or some one host a contest for this class of systems.
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