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My Lovely Horse Train Set

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Standard Gauge

General Purpose / Express Engines

  • Passengers, mail and valuables
  • High-priority freight cargos like food and engineering supplies, which can be carried in high-speed mail cars and express cars
  • General freight, but if a dedicated freight engine is available with similar power, the freight engine will generally be lower cost to buy and run
Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Light General Purpose / Express
General Purpose / Express
Heavy General Purpose / Express
Super Heavy General Purpose / Express
Ultra Heavy General Purpose / Express
Ultra Heavy General Purpose / Express
Ultra Heavy General Purpose / Express

Freight Engines

Recommended for all general freight except cargos like food and engineering supplies, which can be carried in high-speed mail cars and express cars, which freight engines can't haul at maximum speed.

Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Light General Purpose / Freight
Light General Purpose / Freight
General Purpose / Freight
Heavy General Purpose / Freight
Super Heavy General Purpose / Freight
Super Heavy General Purpose / Freight
Ultra Heavy General Purpose / Freight
Ultra Heavy General Purpose / Freight

Railcars / Multiple-Unit Trains

  • These run at similar speeds to freight trains, and are suited to
    • short routes
    • routes which are heavily used by freight trains, which limit the maximum speed of other trains on the route
  • Railcars can generally haul one additional unpowered coach, mail car or other wagon, on level routes
  • Railcars can be combined as needed
Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Passenger Railcar General Purpose / High Capacity
Passenger Railcar General Purpose / High Capacity
Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Mail Railcar
Mail Railcar

InterCity Express Trains

  • high-speed engines with dedicated high-speed coaches and mail cars
  • can attach other types of cars to haul freight cargos but will travel at less than maximum engine speed
Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
InterCity Express

InterCity Express Trains With Distributed Power

  • TGV-style electric passenger trains with very high speeds
  • power is distributed throughout the train
    • engines are relatively low power
    • every set of coaches attached to the engine adds more power
  • tilt bonus for higher speed through curves
  • attaching other types of cars is not recommended, the train will be very underpowered and will travel at much less than maximum engine speed
Intro Year: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
InterCity Express
InterCity Express

Narrow Gauge

Intro Year: 1860 1910 1960 2010
General Purpose
General Purpose

Narrow Gauge Railcars

  • can generally haul one additional unpowered coach, mail car or other wagon, on level routes
  • narrow gauge railcars can be combined as needed
Intro Year: 1860 1910 1960 2010
Passenger Railbus
Intro Year: 1860 1910 1960 2010
Mail Railcar

Metro

Metro Trains

  • pax, mail, valuables, food and similar town cargos
  • for very busy routes in and around large cities
    • metro trains have very high capacity and relatively high run costs
    • to be profitable, metro needs to be used on routes with short distances between stations, and very high loadings
  • can be used in stations as small as 1 tile
  • metro trains can be combined as needed
Intro Year: 1900 1950 2000
Passenger Very High Capacity Urban
Mail Very High Capacity Urban
Very High Capacity Urban
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