Once upon a time, (and in some places, still today!) freight rolled down the rails on city streets, side-by-side with automobiles and buses on tram tracks and similar light-rail systems. Trams, trolleys, street cars, and light-rail trains handled last-mile delivery where box trucks and step vans do today - especially in Cities: Skylines.

While I don't have the capability of making *functional* cargo trams, I have begun nudging the game in that direction by re-texturing the vanilla game's 80-person tram which was added in the recent Roads & Vehicles update. I've included two versions here - one that functions as a tram, and one that functions as a cargo train.

The Tram version will travel down tram tracks, and can more easily integrate into your existing tram network. If you like, you can schedule a route between a tram stock at a factory or warehouse & the commercial district or down-stream industries where these goods are demanded to simulate the visual appearance of carrying cargo on a regular service. No cargo will actually be moved, just a single passenger, if someone should chose to step aboard and serve as the tram's driver. ;)

The Freight Train version will *not* use tram tracks, but regular heavy rails as all other trains do. Using various workshop mods and assets, you can get this version actually doing the job it was intended for - moving cargo from where it's produced to where it's demanded without clogging up your downtown streets with 18-wheelers and delivery trucks.

To pair with the the Freight Train version, I've also included a forklift to off-load goods from the tram into the stockroom of it's destination. This is to handle that last short step between the tram and the destination, since the train can't provide true door-to-door service. There's both a delivery vehicle & a general purpose freight vehicle version of the forklift, so using mods such as algernon's Vehicle Selector and Tim's Advanced Vehicle Options, you should be able move finished goods from the factory where they're made onto a nearby cargo tram via forklift, transport them across town to the commercial area where they're being sold, unload them on a siding hidden behind a row of shops with another forklift & into the stockroom of the business without ever using a truck! This is sure to please both traffic engineers and your everyday cim-on-the-street alike, as consumers won't be bothered by all the commercial traffic clogging up the fashionable shopping avenues.

I'll be posting a guide for how I've implemented these assets to my satisfaction bearing in mind my limited ability to *truly* create custom assets or code mods that would truly change the look and feel of the game, similar to how BloodyPenguin greatly expanded the possibilities offered by ferries with their Barges (Cargo Ferries) mod. If this gets enough interest, I'll try and keep pushing towards a more complete mod & asset pack in a similar vein, but for now, I'm reasonably satisfied within the constraints currently faced.