Tiverton & Crewe Railroad – Train Fever

Tiverton & Crewe Railroad

uzurpator — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:48:20 +0000

Tiverton and Crewe Railway ( TCR for short ) is a new company, started in 1850, servicing, you guessed it, Tiverton and Crewe. Its main source of income is passanger and wood traffic.

In the year 1856 its system comprised:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/uzurpator/2014-11-02_00003_zpsa6dc3a20.jpg

The crux of engineering is the Tiverton Spiral Tunnel

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/uzurpator/2014-11-01_00001_zps7680dd42.jpg

The year 1858 marks the start of the Grand Wood Line, to keep the Tiverton Forest happy. Three locomotives push a train through the torturous Tiverton Spiral Tunnel:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/uzurpator/2014-11-02_00005_zps765601d4.jpg

And even then, the 15 car train barely reaches 20km/h at the summit.

TBC

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SkyRat — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:39:50 +0000

Cool set-up!

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vinkandoi — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:39:13 +0000

How profitable is this setup.

By the look of it, is must have incurred a huge running expenses

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uzurpator — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:02:25 +0000

vinkandoi: I am playing with an early version of my Rasonable Balance Mod. The train on the screen costs about $220k per year. THe whole wood service yields aboyt 1.2M per year in income and about 500k in expenses.

Anyhow:

Year 1859 marks the completion of Battle Extension of the system:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/uzurpator/2014-11-03_00001_zps55588426.jpg

The next logical step is to extend the system to Newbury, but that will require a costly demolishion at Tiverton.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/uzurpator/2014-11-03_00002_zps3267b2a9.jpg