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São Paulo Railway. The story of Daniel Makinson Fox.

Edinburgh, 1859

Dear Daniel,

I just received a letter from my good Brazilian friend Barão de Mauá. In the state of São Paulo, being the biggest exporter of coffee in the world, the economy is booming. There are, however, two issues. First of all, it is very hard to get the goods from the plantations to the ocean, because of the steep mountains near the coast. Second, due to the recent abolition of slavery, coffee plantations have a shortage of workers. Lots of poor immigrants, mainly Italian, arrive in Brazil every day to start a new life working on these plantations.
The man asked me to build a railway from the port of Santos to the plantations in the mainland. To transport the brown gold to the harbour, and the immigrants to the plantations. I want you to go to Brazil and build this railway for me. Given your language skills and the experience you gained recently by constructing railways in Wales and the Pyrenees, I am certain that you are the right man for the job.

Yours sincerely,

James Brunlees
Chief engineer


The mod is required for the “São Paulo Railway. The story of Daniel Makinson Fox.” map. It includes a range of objects, assets and scripts to make the map a little bit more Brazilian. It includes the following:

• Brazilian music is (bossanova and samba) added to the game.
  
  
• Brazilian street- and person names
  
  
• New cargo types:
  Immigrants (to be transported using cargo stations and passenger vehicles.)
  Coffee
  Sugar cane
  Cotton
  Livestock
  Clothes
  Fish
  
  
• A script that adds a new cargo type to all vehicles in the game that can carry a specific existing cargo type. For example, all vehicles that can carry passengers, can also carry immigrants.
  
  
• New industries:
  Immigration office (makes immigrants)
  Coffee plantation (needs immigrants, makes coffee) and Small coffee plantation (makes coffee)
  Sugar cane plantation (needs immigrants, makes sugar cane) and Small sugar cane plantation (makes sugar cane)
  Cotton plantation (needs immigrants, makes cotton) and Small cotton plantation (makes cotton)
  Port, for exporting coffee, sugar cane, cotton and logs.
  Port, for importing machines.
  Clothes factory (needs cotton, makes clothes)
  Food factory (needs coffee, sugar cane, livestock or fish and makes food)
  Fishery (makes fish)
  
  
• A new station object (passenger/cargo misc): the clock tower of the station of Paranapiacaba. It was built by the same British company that also built the Big Ben.
  
  
• New locomotive: Serrabreque. This is actually a brake van, which was used to attach the railway wagons to the cable of the Serra Velha incline system between São Paulo and Santos, Brazil. I cannot add cable functionality to the game, so I added the Serrabreque as a strong but slow locomotive, even though it is more like a waggon.
  
  
• New textures:
  River. The map has the ocean, but I also wanted to add rivers to the rest of the map. However, that part of the map has a much higher altitude. I therefore added the rivers as texture; so they are just esthetical.
  Coffee field
  Cotton field
  Sugar cane field
  
  
• Passenger station buildings are repainted to a more Brazilian style.

I like to make Transport Fever maps that tell a story. I do research, make scripts and build new models specifically for a map. By combining all this, I try to give the map a certain typical feel. I am therefore not interested in releasing parts of these mods separately: I feel that the parts are stronger together.

If you like this map, you should also check out my campaign:

• Inventors & Adventurers

And my other story maps:

• Exposition Universelle 1889
  
• War Express
  
• Ceylon: Devastating Emily
  
• White Pass & Yukon Route: GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD!
  
• Central do Brasil: Gold Rush

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