There are other options for central stations in the Workshop, so have a look for yourself. My personal favourite is building a central station using the Modular Old Brick Central components and then spreading a network out from the CBD of a city. You can build some crazy complex systems and the ability to choose rolling stock on lines is a nice little perk. The train systems in Cities: Skylines, on the other hand, have far more support in the Workshop. If you do not believe me, download the Advanced Vehicle Operations mod and see for yourself.

Even then, the metro vehicles are literally a series of boxes. Sure, metros do save space on the ground and allows you to have very neat above ground designs, hiding things from view, but I like the mess of a train network snaking its way through suburbs. It is solely because you cannot see what is going on, unless you open up the underground view. The most important rule to remember is to allow enough space for trains to get by. My main objection to using metros in Cities: Skylines, is not that the system sucks or anything along those lines. To save you that time, here are the 24+ best Cities Skylines mods. Cities: Skylines How to Create Your Own Cargo Trains Posted on It took me some time to get used to the mods and how to properly use them to make my own trains using individual trailer assets. But whether there are any steam trains in the game, I have come to the conclusion that metros are boring. But there are a lot of custom train models in the game’s Steam Workshop.

First, there are no steam trains in Cities: Skylines. Well, there are a couple things wrong there.

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