Letting The Train Take The Strain

A new age has dawned in Caledon! The Age of the Railway is at last truly here.

Caledon has always had a rail network, with lines from Victoria City to Loch Avie, Carntaigh and the older sims, but it never really worked and was not widely used. With the recent expansion in the national land mass, an upgrading and expansion of the system was sorely needed.

Thanks to the efforts of Mr Barney Boomslang and others, Caledon now has a railway to be proud of. The engines run well, and one can actually sit on the carriages! Something I was never able to do with the old system. Testing was carried out over the holiday period, and we now have a line from Tamrannoch to Kittiwickshire.

My love and I decided to see this new marvel for ourselves, and so boarded the train at the Kittiwick station. A train is rezzed there every hour on the half hour, and correspondingly at Tamrannoch station every hour on the hour. We sat down with some trepidation, as sim crossings in Caledon using any sort of vehicle can be a bit hit and miss, but we were presently surprised when we moved into Tanglewood without a hitch.


The train moves a quite at clip, which did prevent some of the scenery rezzing for me as we passed by.The journey follows the northern side of the Firth, through Stormhold, Wellsian, Morgaine and Penzance, then turning south through Mayfair and Carntaigh to Victoria City, where it turns west to the Moors and Tamrannoch. 11 sims in a little over 20 minutes, very smoothly too!

At the Tamrannoch terminus, a train of the old variety soon rezzed for onward destinations, but it was still beset by the old bugs, although my wife did manage to board it. The new system will soon be replacing the old, I am informed by the Caledon National Railway Board, so soon more of our happy nation will be accessible by this mode of transport.

We only had to wait a few minutes for the return train, and were joined by a Mr Contempi, an Italian visitor to Caledon, who seemed most impressed with our technical innovations. Mr Roy Smashcan also boarded on this leg of the journey, catching the train at the Mayfair halt.

I think Kacy and I will be using this train in future for journeys around Caledon, it is a wonderful way to get "in theme", and offers the perfect opportunity to see Caledon at leisure. if you have yet to try this new marvel in our lands, I heartily urge that you do so. I can quite happily scotch the rumours that it travels too fast to allow one to draw breath, also!