Trains?

[Benson Gravois]

Anyone know where to catch a train in sl? There are lots if tracks and I would love to ride a train on them? I have seen trains parked but none leaving the station?

[Sassy Romano]

Yes, hang around here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wengen/83/205/92 as one such location, the trains come along pretty regularly. 

I've travelled on quite a few trains or other vehicles, it's quite a fun way to pass the time while chatting with someone when you don't feel like doing anything else.

The other thing you might enjoy is to pop to Bay City group of sims and find and ride the water trolleys

[Magnus Brody]

Yes!  Our Highlands of Scotland sims of Inverness and Urquhart.  As the introduction of the steam railways in the rl Highlands of Scotland were a very important part of opening up the Highlands to holidaymakers in the 19th century, I made sure we had our very own SL Highlands Railway, and had a lot of fun building it.

The journey takes you around both sims and along the banks of Loch Ness.

Brody Castle Railway Station

[Sassy Romano]

That looks neat Magnus, i'll that to my tour.

[SaraCarena]

Yavanna`s pods are a nice way of sightseeing in sl too :smileyhappy:

 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calleta/122/150/41

[Magnus Brody]

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Sassy Romano wrote:

That looks neat Magnus, i'll that to my tour.

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Thanks, always a warm Highlands Welcome! :matte-motes-grin:

[Benson Gravois]

Thanks for the great tips everyone! Still wondering about the train tracks on the main sl continent.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

There are trains that run on the mainland too.  You just need to find a train station that is on the mainland to board them.  Search "trains" in the SLwiki for route maps and locations of stations and information about the various railways on the mainland.

[Magnus Brody]

Yes, the SLRR (Second Life Rail Road).  If you look for a sim named "Purple" you'll find that has a station at the end of the line, where the ferry goes over the sea.

[Qie Niangao]

Well, Purple is kind of complicated, inasmuch as the trains there are not SLRR, but rather GSLR, and only run on a short private branch through a few regions of Sansara, the old continent.

On the other hand, that ferry from Purple goes through the ANWR strait to the Atoll continent ("Heterocera") which is where the SLRR runs in a long arc around the atoll and several branches. At several sites along that SLRR track, I've rezzed a traffic map that shows (reasonably) real time train locations.

One such map site is the VRC headquarters in Tuliptree, which has a lot of other information about trains in SL, including traffic maps for the ONSR (in the Sansara snowlands) and Bay City / Nova Albion (trolleys, airships, and ferries).

[Benson Gravois]

Thanks folks, I will try that!