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Light rail tracks 1435 mm

Standard gauge tracks especially for laying roadside, for interurbans, industrial railroads and light rail systems.

For cost reasons, less important railway lines and sidings and of course trams were often built next to existing roads - attractive scenarios that were unfortunately difficult to implement in Transport Fever 2. Standard tracks with a high ballast bed could be laid roadside using mods such as 'Parallel Tool' or 'Build with Collision', but unrealistically deep trenches were created at the edges of the bedding. On certain street types, this caused the pavement to hang in the air, and it also made it difficult to build near the sides. This mod provides a remedy. It contains three special track types with low bedding, wooden sleepers and/or reduced curve speed to simulate an imaginary lack of superelevation. All track types also have a very narrow minimum radius and a finer curve resolution as default, making them ideal for factory premises, too:
- provisionally walkable track, covered with grit up to just below the rail head, without bumper,
- normally ballasted track, but with low bedding that extends to just below the top edge of the sleeper, without bumper,
- standard track with normal-height ballast, also with reduced curve speed (except 60 km/h track), for real level crossings with a stop function (not possible for roadside track!) or private right-of-way.

Important notes:

- Certain mods referenced here as well as the 'Only used track types for adapters' feature are not available on game consoles, but are not stringently required either.
- Only track types appear which are activated in the mod dialog at 'Advanced Game Settings'!
- For laying on streets or for pseudo level-crossings without a stop function, the tracks with low bedding must be lowered by 12 centimeters. The use of the tools mentioned above is essential for this.
- Only track types with high ballast are suitable for real level crossings - either the attached one or any other track type with a normal high ballast bed. The connection to low-bed tracks can only be made using the adapter included in this mod - which can be found in the 'Track Constructions' menu. Instead of using the [M] and [N] keys, the adapter build direction can be reversed using the buttons in the settings dialog. The catenary of the adapter usually has got no masts.
- It would be nice if anyone would mod compatible modular light railway stations/platforms for tracks with low bedding. ;-)
- In order to equip tracks with low bedding with bumpers, this mod includes a bumper as a track asset that can be snapped onto the track.
- Using alternative track styles, the light rail tracks adapt to them to achieve a consistent look. When using the 'Natural Environment Professional' mod (NEP², not on Steam) the masts are also adjusted.
- For compatibility with certain other mods, the real speed of the 40 km/h tracks is not 40, but 39 km/h. ;-)
- If the mod 'Natural Environment Professional' (NEP²) is installed, the directory of this mod must exactly be 'unixroot_natural_environment_pro_tpf2_2' and located in the CORRECT mod directory (i.e. NOT among the 'urbangames' mods) so that the typical NEP features are adopted. Please do not rename files from this mod or those from NEP.

Known issues:

- Laying low-bed tracks at a standard distance next to high-bed tracks, 'burying' or 'undercutting' of neighboring tracks occurs, depending on track speed. Using the adapter on parallel tracks is therefore a problem, too. In this case, the adapters must be placed exactly beside each other - comparable to the construction of multi-track bridges. Mods with a parallel track function such as 'Track Builder', 'Parallel Tool' or 'Auto Parallel Tracks' can also be helpful here.
- When connecting covered and low ballasted tracks conventionally, the characteristics of one track type are sometimes partially or completely transferred to adjacent tracks. A clean separation is created by locked track segments from the 'Track Builder' mod.
- Parallel tracks of the 'covered' type do not snap to each other at a distance of 5 meters. Mods such as 'Track Builder', 'Parallel Tool' or 'Auto Parallel Tracks' provide remedy.
- If alternative track mods are subsequently removed, undesirable changes can occur in the ground texture near the track.
- Trams declared as railroad vehicles must be designed for a contact wire height of 6 meters. Variants with low catenary may follow if there's any interest.

Legal stuff:

Original components from UG are accessed, the rights of which are owned by the game manufacturer, as well as to third-party components with their rights. In particular, it concerns parts of the mod 'Natural Environment Professional' from various authors. The included adapter is based on an idea by Yoshi. Thanks for the permission! Unauthorized distribution not permitted! Adoption of parts of my own content for the development of other mods permitted under cc-by-nc (attribution, non-commercial). Installation and use of all components at your own risk.