Aesthetic Rail Network: Bridges of the World, v1
A whole world rail loop, prioritising aesthetics by including many bridge designs, often inspired by bridges in the real world.
My video tour of the megaprint can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWIxem9fMnk
Although I focused on aesthetics here, this megaprint's rail network is deliberately very barebones. I usually create small branch lines when they're needed, so I may create another version of this at some point with more coverage. I also didn't want to assume what sort of length your trains would be, or what side of the tracks you prefer to use. So, I have intentionally removed all of the signals, and have included only a small number of example train station locations.
Some of the real world bridges that were used as inspiration for this rail loop include the:
- Pingtang Bridge
- Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Seri Wawasan Bridge
- Rialto Bridge
- Sunniberg Bridge
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge
- Yachi Railway Bridge
- Ouse Valley Viaduct
- Millau Viaduct
- Humber Bridge (and the Golden Gate Bridge)
- etc.
Everything has been painstakingly built using vanilla parts, and vanilla methods. So no mods are needed for this. The vast majority of the loop is also aligned to the world grid, with the exception of any curves, and a couple of locations where a 2m offset or half foundations are sometimes used (such as for the main span of the Seri Wawasan inspired bridge).
I've done my best to avoid interfering with power slugs, artifacts, drop pods, and resource nodes. These bridges were all built in my main save, and then copied across to a clean save so that I could double check them. But if you find any locations where the megaprint is obstructing something, please let me know and I'll see what adjustments I can make. Two instances I'm aware of: the tracks go just either side of a Limestone node in the rocky desert, and just avoid a Caterium node in the dune desert. It's still perfectly possible to put miners on those nodes, but you'll be a bit more restricted with how you build around them.
Small note: your browser might freeze for a second or two when pasting the megaprint into your save on the interactive map (mine certainly does), so just give it a moment to complete :) (this megaprint is pretty huge after all!)
- Recuento de objetos 64.614
- Coordenadas 29.800 / -21.000
- Pegar sólo en la ubicación original No
- Categorías Architecture Exterior decorations Tracks system World Grid Aligned
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- Versión de compilación 211.839
- Autor mynamesleon
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- Creado el 6/2/2023 14:07:53
- Pilar Grande de Hormigón 18.844
- Cimientos 4m 6.743
- Pasadizo Recto 6.693
- Cimientos 2m 5.876
- Pilar de Metal Pequeño 3.216
- Pilar de Hormigón Pequeño 2.848
- Viga de Metal 2.539
- Cimientos 1m 1.458
- Cimiento de Armazón 1.455
- Conector de Viga 1.062
- Cimiento de Armazón de Cristal 1.010
- Rampa Doble de 2m 969
- Raíl 913
- Pilar de Metal Grande 831
- Rampa de Cuarto de Tubo Inversa 611
- Pared Inclinada de 8m 606
- Pared Básica de 4m 603
- Cimiento Medio 4m 596
- Línea eléctrica 575
- Tomacorrientes de Pared Mk.1 541
- Pilar de Armazón Grande 534
- Rampa Doble de 4m 499
- Pared de Rampa inv. de 8m 469
- Pasadizo en Forma de T 437
- Escaleras de Pasadizo 395
- Pared de Rampa de 8m 349
- Rampa Doble de 8m 263
- Esquina de Pasadizo 227
- Pared Básica de 1m 216
- Conector Doble de Viga 215
- Rampa inv. de 1m 209
- Barandilla Moderna 179
- Cimiento medio 2m 178
- Rampa de Pasadizo 154
- Rampa inv. de 4m 149
- Ventana Enmarcada Hexagonal 112
- Soporte de Tubería 106
- Rampa Cuarto de Tubo 98
- Tubería Mk.1 94
- Control por interruptor del ferrocarril 94
- Cimiento Medio 1m 93
- Rampa de 4m 90
- Pasadizo de Cruce 85
- Tejado de 2m 56
- Tubería Mk.2 (sin indicador) 50
- Escalera 41
- Tejado de 1m 39
- Rampa de 2m 38
- Farola 38
- Rampa inv. de 2m 37
- Rampa de 1m 35
- Plataforma de carga 32
- Estación de tren 32
- Esquina Superior de Rampa de 4m 28
- Tejado plano 28
- Pared con Puerta en el Centro 27
- Esquinero exterior 2m 25
- Esquina Superior inv. de 1m 24
- Esquinero interior 2m 21
- Pared de Rampa de 4m 21
- Ventana Enmarcada 21
- Pared con Puerta Lateral 19
- Cimientos 2m 18
- Rampa de Armazón Invertida 17
- Esquina Superior inv. de 4m 16
- Tejado de 4m 15
- Cimientos 2m 13
- Poste de Energía Mk.2 13
- Rampa de 1m 12
- Rampa inv. de 1m 12
- Suelo de Armazón 12
- Luz de techo 12
- Agujero de Pared para Tubería 10
- Pared de Rampa inv. de 2m 8
- Pared de Rampa de 1m 8
- Pared de Rampa inv. de 1m 8
- Portón Automatizado 8
- Esquina Inferior inv. de 4m 7
- Esquinero interior 1m 4
- Esquinero exterior 1m 4
- Esquina Inferior de Rampa de 4m 4
- Pared de Rampa inv. de 4m 4
- Tejado de 4m 3
- Esquina Superior de Rampa de 2m 2
- Pared de Rampa de 2m 2
- Esquina Superior de Rampa de 1m 1
- Cruce de pasarela 1
- MAM 1
- Estación de fabricación 1
- Taller de equipamiento 1
- Hormigón 218.519
- Viga de acero 18.361
- Barra de hierro 17.170
- Plancha de Hierro 13.149
- Alambre 2.553
- Cable 2.190
- Turboalambre 1.058
- Tubería de acero 925
- Estructura modular pesada 320
- Ordenador 320
- Sílice 266
- Lámina de Cobre 194
- Motor 160
- Plástico 50
- Conector de alta velocidad 12
- Lámina de hierro reforzada 5
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Doctor Tee - 25/5/2023 22:23:12
Absolutely beautiful, and works wonderfully.
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CaptObvious666 - 18/2/2023 22:41:13
Just installed it and it looks great suggestions... Connect all the power grids, lighting is seperate from rails make 2 versions, left or right, each with half the train stations
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JustNice - 16/2/2023 13:21:02
Fantastic work! Can't wait to see more from you!
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AtomPilzKuchen - 6/2/2023 18:04:37
100% Great Job Perfection in every way