I hope you enjoyed the first episode! If you can't wait for the next one it's available on Patreon as early-access www.patreon.com/c/twodollarstwenty otherwise it'll be out next weekend.
I like city skylines 1 over cities 2. More stuff to do in that game. Cities two has a uphill battle towards cities 1. Trainsets are fun, I remeber building my own trains, my brother got the lego trainset, that kind of toke over. Than many years later, he got kids and all the legos got sent to them.
I'm not sure he'll post the map to the workshop, although I never thought to use a model railway setup for Cities:Skylines 1. Gotta learn how to make a custom map and try it myself. P.S. I wonder how long it will take until a traffic jam occurs?😅
I sooo hoped that CS 2 would import the trainfunktions of TP2 completely. Transportfever 2 is peak Railway with trainsignals and so on, they really missed a chance. Maybe in a future DLC they could add something, but I really doubt it.
@@KoalaSTP In my opinion that would take too much away from what CS2 is supposed to be about: Building a city. This doesn’t mean I don’t want to see the option to change the rolling stock, and I also don’t like the lack of signals; but building your own trains would be just too much. That’s what we have TPF2 and hopefully TPF3 in the future for, and I think that is okay.
This feels like an Australian Isle of Sodor, how there's a huge focus on rail and its set at the end of steam and theres no huge settlements, very cool.
is this finally the time my dream of more australian locomotive assets come true! please a class 90/86 or NR locomotive please! already obsessed with the G classes, but i want more of those ghan type trains!
"Ambiguous 60s Australia" to me means trams, trams, trams! Sydney abolished its trams in 61, Brisbane in 69, Adelaide in 63. In old photos of Australian cities you'll almost always see a tram rolling around in the background.
Tasmania as well! Hobart had the first electric powered tramline in the southern hempishere, but it was abolished in 1960 in favour of *shudder* trolleybusses.
Will miss Oceania since I started watching you during this project, but I also think this new project is awesome! I would really love one last episode for Sunset City and Oceania where you show the whole City or just the best spots, but since it's not even working properly I can understand these episodes never coming
Coming from a town that underwent drastic changes during the 1960s I totally get your fascination with that period. It used to be the fishing capital of my country and there were at least a dozen industrial tracks connecting the rising industry with the rest of the country. Not to mention international trains to Copenhagen, Moscow, Istanbul and Paris used to all race past my house. By the time I was born the yard next to my house was already hardly being used and now it doesn't even exist anymore. Always makes me bit sad that I missed this golden age of railways.
I fully understand you not wanting to continue working on Oceania or Sunset city, but i would so dearly love seeing some of those first person road trips/train rides in those maps. i think it would be a good sendoff for thoses two beutiful savefiles.
Glad to see you back on CS1, everything you make on it is 100% top tier! You've got a great sense for how to put all the pieces together! In all of your series you really do manage to treat it like a digital model train set. It's a shame about Oceania and especially Sunset City, your foray into story telling with it was super fun. Heaven knows my partner has heard me scream in frustration about assets and mods suddenly disappearing! I really wish creators would stop doing that, we rely on their assets so, so much!
Living in Newcastle UK is making me twitch slightly every time you say it because I can't disassociate my home with what you're saying even though it's on the other side of the world 😂😂 Great start and I can't wait to see where this goes 😊
Thank you for finally giving us an update on Oceania and Sunset City. Although it was a bit unfortunate to hear that you're unable to work on perhaps some of your greatest projects I think that this little bit of closure was exactly what we needed. Thx mate.
I think I've just a realization. Trains have fascinated me ever since I've been a little girl. My grandpa even had to ride all the tram lines in his city with me because I was so fascinated by them. I could spend hours with my wooden railroad set, setting it up and planning routes etc. Now I love city builders but mostly the building of public transit. I never quite made the connection that these two things are probably related. I think need to build my own model train set map. Btw if you ever make it to Hamburg, Germany, you simply must visit Miniaturwunderland. It's insane but also so beautiful.
❤ that old footage. That burning train, man that hurt but, children are children. I have nothing but respect for you and man I think this series is gonna be great, and, respectfully, I think it could be quite cathartic and chill for you. Be good, brother, you've always been good to us
You should try Playing Transport Fever 2, There's more opportunities to Build Railways more Realisticly. I suggest it, it's very nice! Would love to see you play it.
@@ander_41 A lot of the TPF2 Creators I work with are excellent detailers... you just haven't found us yet mate :) And the latest update has improved road building enormously! Cheers, Stephen
That train in the opening sequence used to run near my house on the weekends growing up, I also had a model train set many memories here. I've also thought of doing the same thing in Cities Skylines. Also the why the trains in Marble Mountain made it my favorite till now
What a banger of an video again, really excited to see for where this series will go Btw you should really try Transport Fever 2 which is a building/transport game, similar to CS, but more oriented at Trains and generally Transport. Also there is an absolutly humongous amount of mods and even some australian ones. It seems like perfect game for a person like you. Im sure you will have lots of fun with the game
Looking forward to it. Don't know much about Australia in the 1960s, I suppose the nearest I got was watching Skippy as a kid. However, in the UK everything seemed dark and gloomy, smoggy and covered in grime. There were neon lights but no electronic displays, at least where I lived
I've had model trains forever and never even thought of this! I'd really like to see a workshop collection or something similar, this is such a cool idea for a series, or build in general, and I really hope it turns out amazing.
I am so happy and excited. CS:1 laps CS:2 when it comes to having the ability to create a unique and realistic city. I've stopped watching most content creators because I hate how everyone's city looks the same. Bravo 2$20.
I am speechless! You have absolutely outdone yourself with this one! What an incredible build and all those Real Life scenes you included just brought this whole video to life! By far one of my favourite Cities 1 videos!
I really appreciate this series. I've not moved to CS:2 and I don't get to play my one city in CS:1 as much as I'd like. There is always something else that needs doing. I just enjoy chipping away at a little task here and there when I do get to play and get things just right.
I've got a game to recommend created by a solo developer from our neighbors in New Zealand, it's called Rolling Line and is only about $20? It's a rather small model railway sim game with a very simplistic art style but it's really fun, you can create a multitude of layouts and it has a very large community of modders on the Steam Workshop including some who are dedicated to making Aussie steam and diesel engines too. Really worth a shot imo
Hell yeah, newy! I was waiting to see her feature in Oceania, glad to see her star in her own video. The original rail layout for Newcastle is wild. Each mine had its own rail line, which pointed directly to their own port. There's even interesting fun facts like one company only allowed a single thorough fair through their land, so 7 mines all had to funnel through one Junction (the suburbs called the Junction). These industrial scars have created a mark on modern newcastle, ironically now forming most of the bike paths and nature corridor that connect the city.
As someone who's family has a link to 60's Oz I think this will be nice too watch. If you do a port chuck in an ocean liner docked up unloading poms to start a new life. Something to make your city look more real would be to have one of the main cities (if you do 2 on this) have more of a social/night life scene while also having fewer night opportunities in the suburbs. This would reflect the opposing lives of Sydney and Melbourne. Light rail so not a steam engine, from the city center to the suburbs would fit really nice here.
The biggest shame of CS1 is that older saves seem to have a shelf life depending on outside mods. It’s a blessing and a curse. Hours spent working on little models that you can’t see in the same light. I wish we could see your Springfield save one more time! So excited for this series.
@@twodollarstwenty fingers crossed that everything stays stable for you on your forever project! The Springfield series weirdly became my definitive map of town when watching the show. Obviously you had the same source material, but laying it out like you did made so much sense. I totally understand how much work it was to manually make every building but your effort was appreciated. If only it lasted long enough for the squidport and water front!
This sounds great. I loved your CS1 projects. I loved those videos you would do where it followed a vehicle from one part of the map to another. Seeing the city from the almost POV of a cim was always the best after seeing it built from above. The one based on SoCal where you had the custom radio for the trip was just amazing.
Definitely looking forwards to keeping up with this series! I think it will be fascinating to watch some railroading from an Australian perspective. My family was very much a railroading family in Eastern Colorado from the 1920's to the 1970's. The American west and australia have similar frontier histories, as well.
Oh yeah no doubt about it, this is the absolute best time to build in cs1, with no game breaking dlc/update releases. Thank god. To me, CS1 and CS2 are two totally different games, only similarity being in name
Holy moly, I've owned Cities: Skylines since it basically first came out, and it never ONCE occurred to me that I could simply use it as my own digital model train layout. I let the "demands" for industry and housing and stuff and trying to make those happy get in the way of seeing the full potential of the game! I used to love Auran's 'Trainz' game, but they seem to have gone down the dark, evil route of subscription services and placing more and more focus on that - even going as far as DOWNGRADING the detail of the custom map maker abilities for the one-time purchase game on purpose just to force you to buy their subscription to get the more full experience, and higher quality map making abilities and tools. And that absolutely SUCKS! So thanks for opening my eyes to the fact that a game I have loved for years now has had the potential to be my very own digital railway layout creator this entire time!! :D
Okay wansn't expecting too see the will james and two bucks twenty crossover video in a cities skylines and seeing the SAR 520 Asset i commissioned a while ago finally make an appearence on the channel. I'm chuffed.
It feels like it has been a few months to a year since I last watched a video of yours and it didn't really occur to me that this video is meant to be the start of a new series primarily focused on steam locomotives which I absolutely love as someone who's a steam locomotive fanatic and grew up watching Thomas the Tank Engine. And the way you're going about this map is reminding me of the Island of Sodor where the primary mode of transportation is steam locomotives. I'm really looking forward to what this series has in store!
I actually love how much wa rail footage there is, one of those interesting heritage old rails you should look up is the zig zag in gooseberry Hill Perth, it was used to get trains up and down the hill they would zig zag the rails up the mountain for all the forestry that was happening
this is exactly what I use cities skylines for now! I use kind of cheats to speed up levelling up my city then I love to build and manage my metro and train network
As a railway modeler I'm a afraid I must insist you give it a go! My first layout was literally a shelf. 7 feet long, 8 inches wide. N Scale. Just big enough to have a small DMU (railcar) coming out from a hidden siding at the rear, into a small station, and back out, with some abandoned sidings and warehouse to one side. You can even get it running automatically so the trains just come and go all day. It's honestly not that difficult - my shelf came from a DIY store and I just drilled some holes in it for the wires. Wiring is also very easy.
19:49 Honestly, I think the fog level is perfect! Having a lot of fog makes the map feel way bigger than it actually is, and adds a lot of depth to your city.
You should name that green train the 3801 or a variation of the Newcastle Flyer, which the 3801 serviced (pretty iconic looking engine whoch kinda looks like the green one you want to use for the main line). I'm much the same when it comes to model trains, I'd love one... but I just don't have the space (or money) to adequately dedicate to a good setup.... so I watch all those guys on YT streaming their s and others setups... like NSModeller, Need4Life, PILENTIUM and my personal favourite, Everard Junction (although he is moving house and had to dismantle his setup, his junkyard was awesome imo). Probably a few others but they are the ones that spring to mind. Will have to check out Wills stuff now too!
I expect to see Linfox on literally everything (idk how big it is down south but around QLD almost every shipping crate is Linfox). So excited for your final foray into CS1, it’s been a hell of a journey. Keen to see a quarry!
Looks terrific! Would love to see some logging trains included in the build - we have a few down here in Victoria, including one which is now a tourist railway (Puffing Billy).
I LOVE THIS! Not to mention I am a huge fan of the time period you chose. I have a physical model railroad and I chose to model a similar time in the United States. In the 1940's we were having our own "transition" period between diesel and steam. It's a very fun and versatile period to model. Space is definitely a premium and while physical models are nice it's cool to see the unlimited customization possibilities in the virtual world.
As a big time railfan here in the northeast US, and a Cities Skylines enjoyer, I'd LOVE do something like this (I would already but I play on console) I'd love to make an area based on either my current location of Altoona PA, or Pittsburgh PA, anywhere from the 70's to now, I've always thought Cities Skylines would make for a really fun railroad building game, so this is awesome! Australian railroading has quite a lot of similarities to US railroading, so that'll keep this interesting to me lol Anyways sorry for yapping, I just can't wait to see how this goes!
YES. This is how i think about playing CS and how i will play CS2 when i get a new computer. I love the idea of a digital train set and i hope they make a trains DLC for CS2.
Would be fun to have Sharath Building Beautifully to join you for review of some of the rail lines and historical context, looking at the viability of the network.
Once again, holy crap those are some realistic Australian looking scenes. I dunno how you do it. I hope they get you to help build an Australia pack in future. I guessed you were using Hobart and Tasmania as inspirationg before you said, purely based on how familiar it looked. I think it makes sense to not have big highways. I wasn't alive in the 60s, but from what I've seen, most of the highways we have today are newer than that, and even stuff like the Pacific Highway/Motorway was a two lane road that wound its way down the coast.
i always considered cities skylines to be like a model train set, im glad im not the only one who feels that way lol, transport fever 2 fills the better gap for now, but cities has the aesthetics way over that game in the sense that youre building your own world like a model
It’d be cool to see either an abandoned WWII air base or one in active use for the Vietnam War. However, it is your grand project and you get to sculpt it to what tickles your fancy.
I think a town you'd find interesting to incorporate aspects of is Thurmond, West Virginia even though its in America. Its pretty much abandoned now but the town has no main street, the main street is the railroad line. The whole region is supported by the coal industry so it fits the industrial theme.
I'v often had this some idea to do this in citys skylines, but never took the time to do it. Can't wait to see what happens here! The closest Iv done is testing some L trains through a dance downtown area.
I love this build idea, can't wait to see what comes next. As I still struggle a bit with trains myself, it'll be good for me as well to take inspiration from :)
I quite like the dense fog. It's like GTA how they use fog to mask that the map is actually not that big, and provide a sense of the world being bigger. It makes sense for you to employ that tactic here.
I love the intro for this video, I've not played CS2 (and probably won't for a long time) but I don't think its menu music (if it has any) comes close to that of CS1
A Coruña San Cristobal station! I was there a month and a half ago. If you want some inspiration for a really cool model train-esque rural line do look at the meter gauge networks in northern Spain. I rode the line from Ferrol to Gijón and it really felt like being in a model layout at times.
If you’re taking inspiration from Tassie you should definitely include a rail line that’s used to transport materials to an inland hydro project (Gordon Dam) and the West Cost Wilderness Railway between Strahan and Queenstown.
I think your desire for models trains could get a really good bit of satisfaction out of Rolling Line. Its literally a model railroad sandbox, and you can go down into mini mode and be in your model world as well! Its also vr Compatible.
Not to take away anything from the incredible creativity and amount of hard work that went behind this, but me thinks, a game like Transport Fever 2 (with all the mods) is better suited for those who are looking for a virtual trainset experience
One content pack i have in CS2 includes an american-style 'highway' diner with the steel paneling. one of those at some crossroads could be cool, but idk if Australia ever had those in the day.
I hope you enjoyed the first episode! If you can't wait for the next one it's available on Patreon as early-access www.patreon.com/c/twodollarstwenty otherwise it'll be out next weekend.
I like city skylines 1 over cities 2. More stuff to do in that game. Cities two has a uphill battle towards cities 1. Trainsets are fun, I remeber building my own trains, my brother got the lego trainset, that kind of toke over. Than many years later, he got kids and all the legos got sent to them.
Map on the workshop ? Modlist ?
I'm not sure he'll post the map to the workshop, although I never thought to use a model railway setup for Cities:Skylines 1. Gotta learn how to make a custom map and try it myself.
P.S. I wonder how long it will take until a traffic jam occurs?😅
2$20 not starting a new series challange: impossible
2$20 finishing a series challange: impossible
This is just the facts people. The facts.
CS TH-camrs in a nutshell
You know me too well
its difficult to keep projects up to date in cities :(
This could be your gateway drug towards an addiction to Transport Fever 2
I sooo hoped that CS 2 would import the trainfunktions of TP2 completely. Transportfever 2 is peak Railway with trainsignals and so on, they really missed a chance. Maybe in a future DLC they could add something, but I really doubt it.
I agree with both of you, so real.
agreed
TPF2 looks stunning because of its more realistic art style, and it also has incredible track and train building tools
@@KoalaSTP In my opinion that would take too much away from what CS2 is supposed to be about: Building a city.
This doesn’t mean I don’t want to see the option to change the rolling stock, and I also don’t like the lack of signals; but building your own trains would be just too much. That’s what we have TPF2 and hopefully TPF3 in the future for, and I think that is okay.
I feel like Transport Fever doesn’t have enough creative freedom. Am I wrong? I’ve never played it
He would have an absolute blast with Transport Fever 2 and all of its mods for trains
Except Aussie assets are severely lacking for TPF2... I'm having great trouble trying to find enough for a series I am working on currently.
gooooood gaaaame
This feels like an Australian Isle of Sodor, how there's a huge focus on rail and its set at the end of steam and theres no huge settlements, very cool.
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Wait until the next episode
Makes me think of WildNorWester
is this finally the time my dream of more australian locomotive assets come true!
please a class 90/86 or NR locomotive please!
already obsessed with the G classes, but i want more of those ghan type trains!
"Ambiguous 60s Australia" to me means trams, trams, trams! Sydney abolished its trams in 61, Brisbane in 69, Adelaide in 63. In old photos of Australian cities you'll almost always see a tram rolling around in the background.
Trams in Perth finished in 1958.
@@Toropetskii 2.20 DID say east coast tbf
sorry western australians, you miss out again
It's a shame trams were all pulled up in the 50s/60s, they're better than buses and look nicer
Tasmania as well! Hobart had the first electric powered tramline in the southern hempishere, but it was abolished in 1960 in favour of *shudder* trolleybusses.
Back to CS1 AND making a model train, I love it!
All the cool kids make model train sets in video games
I love everything about this. Mapmaking in CS1 is one of my happy places.
It’s my happy place too
I don’t have two yet so it’s my only happy place.
Thank you for the shout out! Fantastic stuff! Can’t wait to see where it goes!
Thank you for letting me use your excellent footage!
Will miss Oceania since I started watching you during this project, but I also think this new project is awesome! I would really love one last episode for Sunset City and Oceania where you show the whole City or just the best spots, but since it's not even working properly I can understand these episodes never coming
Coming from a town that underwent drastic changes during the 1960s I totally get your fascination with that period. It used to be the fishing capital of my country and there were at least a dozen industrial tracks connecting the rising industry with the rest of the country. Not to mention international trains to Copenhagen, Moscow, Istanbul and Paris used to all race past my house. By the time I was born the yard next to my house was already hardly being used and now it doesn't even exist anymore. Always makes me bit sad that I missed this golden age of railways.
I fully understand you not wanting to continue working on Oceania or Sunset city, but i would so dearly love seeing some of those first person road trips/train rides in those maps. i think it would be a good sendoff for thoses two beutiful savefiles.
Glad to see you back on CS1, everything you make on it is 100% top tier! You've got a great sense for how to put all the pieces together! In all of your series you really do manage to treat it like a digital model train set.
It's a shame about Oceania and especially Sunset City, your foray into story telling with it was super fun. Heaven knows my partner has heard me scream in frustration about assets and mods suddenly disappearing! I really wish creators would stop doing that, we rely on their assets so, so much!
You are way too humble, if the recording you showed was/is yours. Your details looked epic. You did landscaping and ground detailing. Crazy
Living in Newcastle UK is making me twitch slightly every time you say it because I can't disassociate my home with what you're saying even though it's on the other side of the world 😂😂
Great start and I can't wait to see where this goes 😊
Thank you for finally giving us an update on Oceania and Sunset City. Although it was a bit unfortunate to hear that you're unable to work on perhaps some of your greatest projects I think that this little bit of closure was exactly what we needed. Thx mate.
I think I've just a realization. Trains have fascinated me ever since I've been a little girl. My grandpa even had to ride all the tram lines in his city with me because I was so fascinated by them. I could spend hours with my wooden railroad set, setting it up and planning routes etc.
Now I love city builders but mostly the building of public transit. I never quite made the connection that these two things are probably related.
I think need to build my own model train set map.
Btw if you ever make it to Hamburg, Germany, you simply must visit Miniaturwunderland. It's insane but also so beautiful.
❤ that old footage. That burning train, man that hurt but, children are children. I have nothing but respect for you and man I think this series is gonna be great, and, respectfully, I think it could be quite cathartic and chill for you.
Be good, brother, you've always been good to us
Thank you my friend!
Fond memories of when you built Stockton a long long time ago… and trains. On ya.
What a throwback! I’m sure a Stockton will return in this build
You should try Playing Transport Fever 2, There's more opportunities to Build Railways more Realisticly. I suggest it, it's very nice!
Would love to see you play it.
But very few detailing possibilities, and the road building is anything but great
@ True, but once you have Steam Assets the game is way different.
@@ander_41 A lot of the TPF2 Creators I work with are excellent detailers... you just haven't found us yet mate :) And the latest update has improved road building enormously! Cheers, Stephen
That train in the opening sequence used to run near my house on the weekends growing up, I also had a model train set many memories here. I've also thought of doing the same thing in Cities Skylines. Also the why the trains in Marble Mountain made it my favorite till now
Love to see CS1 back so excited for the new series!!
What a banger of an video again, really excited to see for where this series will go
Btw you should really try Transport Fever 2 which is a building/transport game, similar to CS, but more oriented at Trains and generally Transport. Also there is an absolutly humongous amount of mods and even some australian ones. It seems like perfect game for a person like you. Im sure you will have lots of fun with the game
I’m so excited to see a 1960s series! I tried to build a 1950s NZ town in CS1 a while back - this is making me want to get back into it. ☺️
Tasmanian here, Super excited for this series!
Looking forward to it. Don't know much about Australia in the 1960s, I suppose the nearest I got was watching Skippy as a kid. However, in the UK everything seemed dark and gloomy, smoggy and covered in grime. There were neon lights but no electronic displays, at least where I lived
Love the idea behind the series!
I've had model trains forever and never even thought of this! I'd really like to see a workshop collection or something similar, this is such a cool idea for a series, or build in general, and I really hope it turns out amazing.
This was the best opening for a video ever. I loved hearing about the personal stories from your past.
Wow... as a train lover myself i'm very exited for this series!
I am so happy and excited. CS:1 laps CS:2 when it comes to having the ability to create a unique and realistic city. I've stopped watching most content creators because I hate how everyone's city looks the same. Bravo 2$20.
I am speechless! You have absolutely outdone yourself with this one! What an incredible build and all those Real Life scenes you included just brought this whole video to life! By far one of my favourite Cities 1 videos!
In transport fever 2 you can do very similar things and more terrain brushes with more control over train tracks.
Yea, i would love to see him play TPF2
let's go!! cannot wait for this series
I really appreciate this series. I've not moved to CS:2 and I don't get to play my one city in CS:1 as much as I'd like. There is always something else that needs doing. I just enjoy chipping away at a little task here and there when I do get to play and get things just right.
I've got a game to recommend created by a solo developer from our neighbors in New Zealand, it's called Rolling Line and is only about $20?
It's a rather small model railway sim game with a very simplistic art style but it's really fun, you can create a multitude of layouts and it has a very large community of modders on the Steam Workshop including some who are dedicated to making Aussie steam and diesel engines too.
Really worth a shot imo
Hearing you talk about this map creation takes me back to Oceania and how excited you were getting to the home page!
Hell yeah, newy! I was waiting to see her feature in Oceania, glad to see her star in her own video. The original rail layout for Newcastle is wild. Each mine had its own rail line, which pointed directly to their own port. There's even interesting fun facts like one company only allowed a single thorough fair through their land, so 7 mines all had to funnel through one Junction (the suburbs called the Junction). These industrial scars have created a mark on modern newcastle, ironically now forming most of the bike paths and nature corridor that connect the city.
As someone who's family has a link to 60's Oz I think this will be nice too watch. If you do a port chuck in an ocean liner docked up unloading poms to start a new life.
Something to make your city look more real would be to have one of the main cities (if you do 2 on this) have more of a social/night life scene while also having fewer night opportunities in the suburbs. This would reflect the opposing lives of Sydney and Melbourne. Light rail so not a steam engine, from the city center to the suburbs would fit really nice here.
I love maps set in specific periods. This series will be a real treat, seeing the videos popping in from time to time
I’m working on the rail in Newcastle and was not expecting this video. Great to see and I’m excited to see the map progress
The biggest shame of CS1 is that older saves seem to have a shelf life depending on outside mods. It’s a blessing and a curse. Hours spent working on little models that you can’t see in the same light. I wish we could see your Springfield save one more time!
So excited for this series.
That is true! I’m hoping this might be different if I never swap assets and mods ever again. I miss Springfield more then any other series
@@twodollarstwenty fingers crossed that everything stays stable for you on your forever project!
The Springfield series weirdly became my definitive map of town when watching the show. Obviously you had the same source material, but laying it out like you did made so much sense. I totally understand how much work it was to manually make every building but your effort was appreciated.
If only it lasted long enough for the squidport and water front!
I always thought CS1 would be perfect for that, and now you’ve gone and done it. Can’t wait to follow along!
This sounds great. I loved your CS1 projects.
I loved those videos you would do where it followed a vehicle from one part of the map to another. Seeing the city from the almost POV of a cim was always the best after seeing it built from above.
The one based on SoCal where you had the custom radio for the trip was just amazing.
This is going to be awesome! Can’t wait for a lot of traditional architecture🤩
Definitely looking forwards to keeping up with this series! I think it will be fascinating to watch some railroading from an Australian perspective.
My family was very much a railroading family in Eastern Colorado from the 1920's to the 1970's.
The American west and australia have similar frontier histories, as well.
19:41 Ngl, this aerial view here took me back to Thomas and the Island of Sodor. Very reminiscent of that ♥
Oh yeah no doubt about it, this is the absolute best time to build in cs1, with no game breaking dlc/update releases. Thank god.
To me, CS1 and CS2 are two totally different games, only similarity being in name
The choice of C:S soundtrack for the start of the video is on point.
THE MAPS LOOKS PRETTY GOOD ...CANT WAIT TO SEE WHERE THIS SERIES GOES...
the concept, 10/10. the intro, 10/10. looking forward to this magnim opus for C:S. 1 👌
Holy moly, I've owned Cities: Skylines since it basically first came out, and it never ONCE occurred to me that I could simply use it as my own digital model train layout. I let the "demands" for industry and housing and stuff and trying to make those happy get in the way of seeing the full potential of the game!
I used to love Auran's 'Trainz' game, but they seem to have gone down the dark, evil route of subscription services and placing more and more focus on that - even going as far as DOWNGRADING the detail of the custom map maker abilities for the one-time purchase game on purpose just to force you to buy their subscription to get the more full experience, and higher quality map making abilities and tools. And that absolutely SUCKS! So thanks for opening my eyes to the fact that a game I have loved for years now has had the potential to be my very own digital railway layout creator this entire time!! :D
Love the idea for this new series. 1960s was the peak of australian architecture before a lot of unfortunate demolitions of historic buildings.
Okay wansn't expecting too see the will james and two bucks twenty crossover video in a cities skylines and seeing the SAR 520 Asset i commissioned a while ago finally make an appearence on the channel. I'm chuffed.
It feels like it has been a few months to a year since I last watched a video of yours and it didn't really occur to me that this video is meant to be the start of a new series primarily focused on steam locomotives which I absolutely love as someone who's a steam locomotive fanatic and grew up watching Thomas the Tank Engine. And the way you're going about this map is reminding me of the Island of Sodor where the primary mode of transportation is steam locomotives. I'm really looking forward to what this series has in store!
I actually love how much wa rail footage there is, one of those interesting heritage old rails you should look up is the zig zag in gooseberry Hill Perth, it was used to get trains up and down the hill they would zig zag the rails up the mountain for all the forestry that was happening
I had been living in Newcastle AU for three years --- that's a fantastic place for city creators to build their own blueprints.
I have not been watching CS1 videos and it is so fun to remember what is possible that we don't have in CS2
this is exactly what I use cities skylines for now! I use kind of cheats to speed up levelling up my city then I love to build and manage my metro and train network
As a railway modeler I'm a afraid I must insist you give it a go!
My first layout was literally a shelf. 7 feet long, 8 inches wide. N Scale. Just big enough to have a small DMU (railcar) coming out from a hidden siding at the rear, into a small station, and back out, with some abandoned sidings and warehouse to one side. You can even get it running automatically so the trains just come and go all day. It's honestly not that difficult - my shelf came from a DIY store and I just drilled some holes in it for the wires. Wiring is also very easy.
Thank you for acknowledging that this game is a model train simulator first and a city builder second
It'd be cool to see this be a Sodor-like island
Cinders and Ashes!!! it’s Gorgeous scenery in CS1, maybe CS2, don’t know.
19:49 Honestly, I think the fog level is perfect! Having a lot of fog makes the map feel way bigger than it actually is, and adds a lot of depth to your city.
You should name that green train the 3801 or a variation of the Newcastle Flyer, which the 3801 serviced (pretty iconic looking engine whoch kinda looks like the green one you want to use for the main line).
I'm much the same when it comes to model trains, I'd love one... but I just don't have the space (or money) to adequately dedicate to a good setup.... so I watch all those guys on YT streaming their s and others setups... like NSModeller, Need4Life, PILENTIUM and my personal favourite, Everard Junction (although he is moving house and had to dismantle his setup, his junkyard was awesome imo). Probably a few others but they are the ones that spring to mind. Will have to check out Wills stuff now too!
This is awesome. Will def be cool if we see more Aussie trains on the workshop.
Great Video! I am a Model Railroader at heart also. that is what got me into city building games. good luck with the series DJ
I expect to see Linfox on literally everything (idk how big it is down south but around QLD almost every shipping crate is Linfox). So excited for your final foray into CS1, it’s been a hell of a journey. Keen to see a quarry!
Looks terrific! Would love to see some logging trains included in the build - we have a few down here in Victoria, including one which is now a tourist railway (Puffing Billy).
I LOVE THIS! Not to mention I am a huge fan of the time period you chose. I have a physical model railroad and I chose to model a similar time in the United States. In the 1940's we were having our own "transition" period between diesel and steam. It's a very fun and versatile period to model. Space is definitely a premium and while physical models are nice it's cool to see the unlimited customization possibilities in the virtual world.
As a big time railfan here in the northeast US, and a Cities Skylines enjoyer, I'd LOVE do something like this (I would already but I play on console) I'd love to make an area based on either my current location of Altoona PA, or Pittsburgh PA, anywhere from the 70's to now, I've always thought Cities Skylines would make for a really fun railroad building game, so this is awesome! Australian railroading has quite a lot of similarities to US railroading, so that'll keep this interesting to me lol
Anyways sorry for yapping, I just can't wait to see how this goes!
YES. This is how i think about playing CS and how i will play CS2 when i get a new computer. I love the idea of a digital train set and i hope they make a trains DLC for CS2.
It would be really cool to see a murray river paddle steamer going back and forth between towns! love that you are revisiting CS1 :)
Can't wait for the final outcome of this series! Looking forward to more Aussie based railway stuff for Cities Skylines!
Would be fun to have Sharath Building Beautifully to join you for review of some of the rail lines and historical context, looking at the viability of the network.
Once again, holy crap those are some realistic Australian looking scenes. I dunno how you do it. I hope they get you to help build an Australia pack in future. I guessed you were using Hobart and Tasmania as inspirationg before you said, purely based on how familiar it looked.
I think it makes sense to not have big highways. I wasn't alive in the 60s, but from what I've seen, most of the highways we have today are newer than that, and even stuff like the Pacific Highway/Motorway was a two lane road that wound its way down the coast.
This looks astonishing, as always, mate.
Best version of CS indeed, Grerat plans, all the best
i always considered cities skylines to be like a model train set, im glad im not the only one who feels that way lol, transport fever 2 fills the better gap for now, but cities has the aesthetics way over that game in the sense that youre building your own world like a model
It’d be cool to see either an abandoned WWII air base or one in active use for the Vietnam War. However, it is your grand project and you get to sculpt it to what tickles your fancy.
How awesome $2.20, I absolutely love CS1 & you doing another Aussie inspired map, which looks cool. Looking forward to the next ep/
I think a town you'd find interesting to incorporate aspects of is Thurmond, West Virginia even though its in America. Its pretty much abandoned now but the town has no main street, the main street is the railroad line. The whole region is supported by the coal industry so it fits the industrial theme.
I absolutely love the idea for this series!
Looking forward to seeing where this series goes. Always happy seeing my assets getting used.
Your assets are amazing! Let me know if you’re interested in some work creating custom liveries and rolling stock
Very much looking forward to this series. 😀
I'v often had this some idea to do this in citys skylines, but never took the time to do it. Can't wait to see what happens here! The closest Iv done is testing some L trains through a dance downtown area.
I love this build idea, can't wait to see what comes next. As I still struggle a bit with trains myself, it'll be good for me as well to take inspiration from :)
I quite like the dense fog. It's like GTA how they use fog to mask that the map is actually not that big, and provide a sense of the world being bigger. It makes sense for you to employ that tactic here.
I am very excited for this mate. A true transport tycoon series.
The first loco that was shown in-game is the SRAR 520, grew up with the real one going past my house.
32:07 What a jumpscare, that's the station from the city I used to live in. Just a 10min walk away from my apartment
I love the intro for this video, I've not played CS2 (and probably won't for a long time) but I don't think its menu music (if it has any) comes close to that of CS1
A Coruña San Cristobal station! I was there a month and a half ago. If you want some inspiration for a really cool model train-esque rural line do look at the meter gauge networks in northern Spain. I rode the line from Ferrol to Gijón and it really felt like being in a model layout at times.
As a Novocastrian, looking forward to watching the Newcastle-Like map take shape!
If you’re taking inspiration from Tassie you should definitely include a rail line that’s used to transport materials to an inland hydro project (Gordon Dam) and the West Cost Wilderness Railway between Strahan and Queenstown.
dude out here creating his own little Australian version of the Island of Sodor
I think your desire for models trains could get a really good bit of satisfaction out of Rolling Line. Its literally a model railroad sandbox, and you can go down into mini mode and be in your model world as well! Its also vr Compatible.
Not to take away anything from the incredible creativity and amount of hard work that went behind this, but me thinks, a game like Transport Fever 2 (with all the mods) is better suited for those who are looking for a virtual trainset experience
One content pack i have in CS2 includes an american-style 'highway' diner with the steel paneling. one of those at some crossroads could be cool, but idk if Australia ever had those in the day.
omg lil two dollars twenty is adorable