FTB Community Railway

[AdmiralTriggerH]

I would like to start work on a Community Railway system, it will be a subway system much like on Frontier but with all our extra cool railway mods!.

In order to get this started we need to decided where the tracks will go, again it would be best to run it under the roads like we did on Sanctuary but we need to decide on a common height again.
Also we need to build a central station somewhere near spawn.

I know because of mystcraft railways are kinda obsolete, but I love building them and they are cool so who cares.

I propose we go for level 40 again as that gives plentey of room below the surface for other stuff.
Also I think we should build at least a 4 line system 2 for commuter rail and 2 for a freight network

[Hoathy]

I agree that it's still good fun to build, and there are a lot of cool railway mods in FTB to make it even more exciting. I'm happy to get involved and donate whatever you need.

Perhaps the central station should be under spawn, I mean that makes the most sense. However isn't there a generator room and some other "stuff" under spawn? It's a big plot though, even if the station has an external structure on the surface of one of the other corners on the spawn plot, that'd look cool. We'd need permission and consensus to do that though of course, I'm just brain storming.

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[Espesh]

Originally Posted by AdmiralTriggerH

I know because of mystcraft railways are kinda obsolete, but I love building them and they are cool so who cares.

+1

I'm all for this, with switches and some of the other stuff Railcraft adds it would make for some really cool, really interesting working railway..

I love the idea of seperate lines for freight too, we could send excess or donations along the lines to storage at spawn or the station, even between private stops.

Since we're working with a grid we could also use the tunnelling machine to dig and lay the rails, just pick a level and fire it up!

[DarkDuck]

Originally Posted by Hoathy

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Grats

I am all for the railway, if you want to use the roads I can start smelting steel and making a tunnel bore I have most of the mats but stopped cause I was not sure of the support.

I like the idea of multiple tracks, the roads are 8 wide, meaning we could realistically do 6 tracks 3 in 3 out.

[Obsi]

I've moved the animal farm out from under spawn, so there is a large area already cleared out and with stairs down, so we may as well use that at Spawn Station. The materials I gathered while mining out that floor are in the chests there, so use whatever of that you need for the railway too.

[Carm]

Daz is always keen on anything that involves building stuff specially railways give him a yell
Our ISP is having issues so he can't run mumble you guys all sound kinda funny when he does give it a shot haha hilarious at this end anyway just give him a yell if ya's want a hand tell him what you want from him Cnafe is usually pretty keen to help out with stuff and he's really good at it all
Daz is always in Public TOG teamspeak with Cnafe he doesn't come to the forums the slacker but I check in quite regularly

[DaedalusAlpha]

Just want to point out, that the further down the rail network is, the less useful it is as it takes longer and longer to actually get to the station from the surface where you're most likely to start from.

If it takes longer time to go down to and up from the stations than just running over there on the ground it sort of takes out the usefulness of a rail network doesn't it?

[Sorontar]

A reminder also that if we need to update the worlds, any railway outside the spawn city will be erased. There is no predicted timeframe on this.

[DaedalusAlpha]

When you make the tunnels, be sure to use this

http://railcraft.wikispaces.com/Tunnel+Bore+%28Cart%29

[AdmiralTriggerH]

Yeah, I'm finishing the construction of the tunnel bore at present.
I propose, for Passenger rail we build at 58 (feet pos) and for freight we run at 50 (feet)
That should allow for quick access for everyone.

I think it should run under all the roads in a criss cross pattern, and we can run lots of signals etc to organise it all, if people want to connect that's up to them, we can just build sidings for each station with boarding track to connect in