Hi Power man,
You are right about the horse trolley - Originally it wasn't included - I added it at some point on request. So yes this mod only really becomes useful once you have line electrification.

You can change the game config file so that catenary appear earlier.

Navigate to this directory:-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Transport Fever\res\config

Edit this file with notepad
base_config.lua

around about line 168 you will find these settings:

game.config.tramCatenaryYearFrom = 1875
game.config.trackCatenaryYearFrom = 1910

just change the year to be what ever you want.

Remember this file is fundamental to how the game runs so probably a good idea to make a backup first.

is there a way to modify catenary to appear earlier?

can't use any of the earlier trams such as the horse trolley, if you didn't know you had the horse tram apparently its just the car without the horse

OK, thanks for confirming.

Hi Cat sorry no - this mod includes modified versions of the in game trams only - to add other modders files to my mod tends to upset them a bit.

There is a Blackpool tram mod that I want to use on my Blackpool map. Any chance of making it work with mods?

Pitty it doesn't place tram mods as trains. But thank you! Sometimes you need a small train and one wagon engines look odd so a Tram is just what is needed.

yes

This is only vanilla trams?

These fit really well, great work. I especially like how the trolley poles touch the overhead wires, very nice touch.

Thanks GrandT - Watch GrandT's 600 town Midland series on you tube to see them in action :)

Hi Dave - It turned out to be quite fiddely. There are many ways a model can be 'glued' together. Depending on how its done depends on how easy it is to scale it. Also on exactly what you want to do. - e.g. shrink the whole model or only adjust the guage of the bogies to fit on the tracks.

Good afternoon. Great mods. Is it easy to scale up/down locos? Wouldn't mind the vinella locos and wagons in 1000mm/rhb scale.

Love this mod! Closest thing we have to mainland UK trams. I see you mentioned Manchester and West Midlands Metro as examples, there's also Sheffield & London's TramLink which runs on standard gauge too!

Thanks again for taking the time to do this.

Great thanks! :-)

hi Multiplio - yep - go for it - I unlike some people really don't mind if you use anything I've done. Anyway I'm not claiming the models as mine - they belong to the game - I just wrote some code to resize them :)

Hi @Mad Hatter, this mod is amazing - thanks so much for making it!

I have made a mod which adds your size adjusted trams as assets - would I be allowed to upload this to the workshop? It only works if your mod is installed first, and the only file I have copied and edited from this mod is the .mdl file (to move it to the model/asset folder).

If you don't want me to that's fine - I just thought other people might be interested in it.
Thanks!

CE 2/2 schst added don't know how I missed that

for anyone whose interested the super tall tram was a decimal point issue - height was ment to be tweeked 1.020 but got tweeked by 1020 oops.

Oops - I keep using cantilever everywhere not cantenaary - but even thats wrong - cantenary is the overhead wire - the pantograph is the bit that connects.

Right - so all the trams are now scaled so that the cantilever touches and all but one - the mirage4/6 - have had their bogies adjusted to fit the rails. The mirage 46 model has fake bogies which are resisting all efforts to adjust scale - I'm thinking about replacing them but thats a bit of a job.

The standard horse drawn trams aren't in this set.

Does anyone have a screenshot of the several kilometers high train? Sounds funny.

Sorted - sorry about that - should not be glitching or be funny size and sound should be back.now

Oh I see what you mean - it stupidly big in the details window. hmmmm

hmmm okay I'll look at that

The Ce 2/2 SchSt also seems to be missing entirely.

It also doesn't produce any sound whatsoever.

Just a heads up - the Type T1 glitches out and is several KILOMETERS tall in my game.

actually top right :D

Yes I know but here in the UK in Manchester and Birmingham the trams run on standard guage rails hence the mod. - here is a link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_West_Midlands_Metro_tram_stops - in the top left of this page you will see a tram running on the standard rail network

There are some nice narrow gauge tracks here on the workshop that fit perfectly. There are also depots and other stuff just for narrow gauge trains.

Cantenaries - Yes I know - I said in the description - however - the cantenary for 'the yellow one' touches now as does the pitsburgh.

- Having worked out how to fix one you'd have thought it would be 'rince and repeat' job but no. every model has been configured in a slightly different way.

Looks sick, even better if cantenery would touch... I live around manchester so i would love to see metrolink trams, Old/New. The yello tram in game is based off old metrolink tram. Look closely.

You are right! - sigh - yes there's one that enables trams for narrow guage tracks - I hadn't spotted it. Hmmm. Oh well - on the bright side I have changed the boggie size on some of the trams so that they sit on standard tracks.

Isn't there a similar mod that make Trams run on metric gauge?

- Yes I watch GrandT - you'll see my comments occasionally on youtube :)
- The top speeds are the same as vanilla - The point is in the uk trams do sometimes run on rail track the real ones don't suddenly aquire jet engines when they leave the road for rail :)
- Thanks for the pointer about the transform matrix I'll have a play and see what I can do.
- To be honest I'm not a 'modler' - in real life I am a developer so am hapy playing around with the lua fields etc. I will happily 'color things in' but generating actual meshes is not something I'm good at so I wont be producing any M5000s anytime soon :)

Damn, We just need the M5000/T68 and I can remake the Manchester Metrolink network!

If you want the gauge to match, go into the mdl file and find the transform matrix and scale things up by a little :)

Are the top speeds same as vanilla or have they been beefed up a bit for running on rail?

Someone's been watching a bit of GrandT.