Ultimate Railway

Ultimative Railway Mod adds the equipment of a real railway to Create: signal heads and semaphores, speed limits, level crossings, an overhead line with pantographs, and a driver’s cab with a key, a display and a control panel. It is made in the style of the German railway and works with Create’s own track, signals and trains.

Signals

Create’s Train Signal decides who goes and who waits, but its own light is small. A signal head from this mod shows the same state in a way a driver can read from far away.

• Signal Lamp: red, yellow and green. It gives off light.
• Two-Light Signal Lamp: red and green. Yellow shows as flashing green.
• Dwarf Signal: a small ground signal with a number plate.
• Distant Signal: tells the driver what the next main signal will show.
• Semaphores: arm signals with a second arm and a distant signal, for the old look.
• Speed Indicator: a number under a head, read from the track speed.

Put a head next to a Create Train Signal and it follows it. Or use the Signal Linker to link a head to any signal in the same dimension, however far away. Without a Create signal, a head follows redstone, which also makes it easy to test.

There are also masts, a climbing mast, a side-mount mast, gantries, a signal box, and signs for speed, distant markers, the whistle and level crossings.

Speed limits

The Speed Limit Point is a board on a post that you put beside the track. Place it looking along the track, then right-click it and write the limit in km/h. Create’s trains hold to it, and so does a train with a driver.

Level crossings

Gates, flashing lights, a bell and track detectors, all run by one Crossing Controller. Link the parts to the controller with the Crossing Linker. The controller starts the crossing when a Create Train Observer, a redstone signal or one of its detectors sees a train. The gates come down, the lights flash, the bell rings, and everything goes back when the train has passed.

Overhead line

Build masts and cantilevers, then draw the wire between them with the Catenary Wire. The wire follows the Create track under it, round curves and over switches. A pantograph on the train rises to the wire. By default a train with a pantograph needs the wire: when it loses it, a red lamp blinks and after a few seconds the train loses its power. This can be switched off in the config.

The driver’s cab

Cab units for the cab of a Create train: the Driver’s Display, the Control Panel, a Driver’s Desk, an L-shaped console corner, cab and train lights, and a Train Key. A train with a display is locked until you put its key in. The units add an emergency brake for red signals (with an override), a speed limit controller, door and light keys, and the S, L and A lamps. You still drive with Create’s own Train Controls.