Track Technology

Adds twelve track types based on real railway track technology. Each also comes in an electrified version. Yard track (40 km/h): tight curves, cheap. Timber sleeper track I, II and III (90, 120 and 160 km/h, from 1850, 1900 and 1930). Timber III suits 1930s express trains but needs very wide curves and costly maintenance. Concrete sleeper track I and II (160 and 200 km/h, from 1950 and 1970). Superelevated track I, II and III (160, 200 and 230 km/h, from 1955, 1968 and 1990): canted curves, much faster through bends. High-speed track I, II and III (250, 320 and 350 km/h, from 1964, 1989 and 2008): very wide curves. Faster track types need larger minimum curve radii, have wider ballast shoulders and cost more. Older types stay available and are cheaper, so you can build only as much track as each line needs. Superelevated and high-speed track also smooth out sharp changes in gradient. Every track type uses the vanilla 4 m track bed and clearance, so parallel tracks are built 5 m apart and shared catenary gantries work on all of them. Options: - Vanilla tracks: show or hide the vanilla Simple, Standard and High-Speed tracks. - Track visuals: Track Technology or vanilla looks. With vanilla visuals, you keep the speeds, curves and costs with the vanilla look.