The double stack car with the '53 foot Evergreen over '48 Hapag-Lloyd has clipping with an extra container.

Lol the lore

Btw is there going to be a version with shorter trains?

Love this, hope to see other engines with this livery both electric and diesel.

This and especially your BNSF trains are really great. GP40 locomotives and yard slugs would also be really cool to see in Cites Skylines for people who want to make realistic American railyards.

Based... I kneel....

Nice job on engine details and realism!

Would be cool to see these engines in a Conrail livery.
Have you seen the electrics they tested in 1975/1976 (they used the years as the road numbers) the had a similar feel but based more off of road switchers than the mainline wide cab units.

The problem is not the private ownership of the railways, but the state ownership of the highways and the extremely pro-car policy of the US government.

@Mango, Yeah, there's currently no limits on train lengths, which is why they've gotten rather ridiculous under PSR (that second train that derailed in Springfield, Ohio a few weeks ago was 212 cars long, if I remember correctly).

The length restriction was part of the nationalization, per @REVO's lore, along with abolishing PSR (because it is not "precision", it's not "scheduled" and barely qualifies as railroading). I'm sure the logic behind it was to ensure trains could actually fit in passing sidings, which has actually been a problem in recent years under PSR. Trains have gotten longer, yes, but the railroads have done practically nothing to improve their infrastructure to accommodate them, so trains are blocking each other more frequently, which is why service has deteriorated (all those supply chain shortages we've been having are partly the result of PSR).

Also, hello from a fellow Ohio-adjacent pleb (I live about an hour away from that dumpster fire).

I love the USR lore but I don't think there is a limit on train length, cuz the normal is 120 cars which is a mile and a quarter. Just curious, is that just for passengers or am I misreading something lmao? Gotta have this btw for my rural towns.
Also I love the details @evil.iguana added. I'm a state away from that incident if you are talking about Ohio lol

If you read the description I said, it retains the prime-mover and other major components

Turning America into Europe? Where have I heard that before...

Also, the Evolution locomotive is named after the Evolution diesel engine that powers it, so... a locomotive that doesn't even have one would probably be called something else... And not have giant radiators and fuel tank...

@evil.iquana, i like your sequel

On a positive note, if another train with identical consist and cargo destroys that same city on a a partly cloudy second Tuesday in March between 9:15 and 10:45 AM there's a good chance qualified immunity might not protect the engineers.

The cost of retrofitting the entire US freight rail system, estimated at $2 billion (source: some guy on twitter), ultimately cost $750 billion, a 37500% cost overrun. Because of the enormous expense, rail shipping rates had to increase by 400%, which resulted in drop in rail shipping volume by almost 60%, nearly all of which was picked up by road based transportation, resulting in a massive increase in carbon emissions. Price controls were implemented, but they were unable to stem the tide of customers abandoning rail freight on account of the inability of the electrical grid to support the massive increase in demand by the newly electrified rail system. The promised improvements in safety never materialized, and when another accident caused the destruction of a small city in Delaware, the courts ruled that American Railways employees were immune to legal consequences under the policy of Qualified Immunity.

> The decision of nationalization was given with biparty support

You're about 20 days early m8.

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