Railroad History Jam! v3.33

Welcome to the Railroad History Jam!

Last year there was a "Fantasy Livery Jam" which was all about making liveries for your own fictional railway ideas, and it was SO MUCH FUN!
So here's something I've been planning for a while, which takes my favorite parts of the Fantasy Livery Jam and makes them even better.
And guess what, my favorite part was the history! I love designing layouts that have stories behind them, and a sense of time (like older and newer areas, different logos & livery versions, new & old rolling stock, and an ever changing locomotive fleet).

The goal of this event is to make a collection of liveries/mods/layouts that showcase a railway's history, be that a fictional railway you design yourself, or a real-world railway that you want to re-create the history of! (So unlike the Fantasy Livery Jam, you can now choose to base your ideas on a real-world railroad this time if you want to).

But of course (in my opinion at least) the best part is being creative and designing your own fantasy railroad! With fictional locations, logos and history.

Here is the full info:



You can make as many liveries, QuickMods, liveries of QuickMods & prop mods for your railway as you like, everything is free-game.
Then you can combine all those elements together into a layout to show your railway in action.

One idea is to even create multiple layouts, showing the same location at different points in the railroad's history! e.g. one in the modern day, then a separate layout set in the steam era.

[h2]The GeTA Sulfur Railroad [/h2]

Now of course I wanted to join in on this jam myself too!
So I've created my own example entry already, which you can use as inspiration for creating your own entries.

It's called the GeTA Sulfur ("Geo-thermal Tranz Alpine" Railroad) and It's a fictional railway based around sulfur mining in the mountains!
You can find the full collection of liveries and mods here on the Steam Workshop, and of course the layout itself:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2411234288

You can read the descriptions on each workshop item to learn more about the fictional history of this railway.

I had a ton of fun making this layout, and it makes use of all the new features (like switchboards, turntables and skyboxes).
I hope you have fun exploring it and learning about it's history!

[h2]Custom text signs[/h2]

But that's not all!
This update also adds a new feature, which is custom text labels and signs.
This means you can easily type your own text labels (which are perfect for adding name-plates to your layout, or adding some extra info to the map).



You can also use them for signage inside your layout too!



You can find these new custom sign props inside the "Room -> tools" drawer:



When you have placed one on your layout, simply use the "Edit options" popup (Q on PC) to set the heading, sub-heading and text alignment.



You can also type in new-lines by holding 'shift + return'




And that's everything!

You've got all the way till the 18th of March to work on your entries for the Railroad History Jam.
I can't wait to see the kind of stuff people will make!
Remember you can design your own fictional railway, or base it on a real-world railway. both are fine.
The goal is just to have fun and celebrate some history that you are passionate about.

Just remember to check this option when you upload to the Steam Workshop:



Enjoy!