Tour trains

[Cityplanner 53]

I was just sort of thinking about the idea of making my town's train station for the game when I had a thought. You see our station has a railway center based on the far side of the station, where you can go an ride an old steam train on a short little train ride ending back in the station, I don't know if this is common anywhere else but there are a fair few railway centers across England as well as train rides as part of other parks, such as Longleat.
So my suggestion is that they add Tour Trains as some sort of additional leisure DLC, perhaps focused on beaches or festivals, or as part of a DLC focused on custom transport hubs.
The idea would be that you start at a station but then instead of going station to station you can put a stop anywhere on the line, obviously passengers wouldn't actually board or alight, just observe the surroundings. as part of this it would also include a platform with a rail that could be placed on a path in a park area, special tour trains (probably steam engines as those are what they tend to use) and possibly options for smaller gauge light rail, such as in Bicton Park, or even mini trains such as in Pecorama.
While tour trams would also be cool you could just use the regular trams and just send them to touristy areas (or build a tram line inside a park)
Also possibly as an option for trams or Tour Busses, a Land Train.

 

[AnarchistMetalhead]

good idea
but the lines shouldn"t have to be separate, taking the scenic route instead of the fastest could very well be something a fraction of the passengers go for even for regular journeys

 

[Cityplanner 53]

good idea
but the lines shouldn"t have to be separate, taking the scenic route instead of the fastest could very well be something a fraction of the passengers go for even for regular journeys

I agree, some railway centers I have been to do take you to another city, I would entirely agree with the idea that tour trains could go from station to station, I just also want to place way points for tours that do not use multiple stations, or for ones where we want to use a longer route between 2 stations when a short one is available.

 

[AnarchistMetalhead]

I agree, some railway centers I have been to do take you to another city, I would entirely agree with the idea that tour trains could go from station to station, I just also want to place way points for tours that do not use multiple stations, or for ones where we want to use a longer route between 2 stations when a short one is available.

Absolutely, just wanted to add the minor point of mixed use being desirable so it doesn"t turn out like another separate variation on a transport mode that could work in one continuous system (bus, tourist bus, school bus, and train, metro, tram and now tourist train)