How Cities Repurpose Abandoned Train Lines | Cities Skylines | Sunset City 26 

Why dont you add a crashed smuggler plane in the keys/swamp.... smugglrs use planes flying low to transport things trought the gulf

I live in a decently small town so you wouldnt expect much but an abandoned railroad here was turned into an walking path, but a part of it was left for the local museum, as it was part of our history due to the town being really industrialized and actually had the first mine in the country and currently has the biggest limestone mine in the country. Its actually an museum too lol

I like how everything gets flooded in the opening scene, it’s exactly like Florida lol.

That's a nice abandoned railroad and set of bridges and piers you built! But may I make one suggestion: in the Florida Keys the side path is actually a bicycle path because of the busy highway and the long distances. So you might want to exchange the pedestrian walkway into a combined bicycle/pedestrian path.

I have a feeling the Sports and Stadiums DLC will get the spotlight next time

You should have a military base at the end of the keys like in Key West there is a naval air base.

On the Key West train line. I was fascinated by old pillars and parts of it still standing next to the newer highway when driving through the keys a couple years back. There is a book on the building of the trainline by Flagler in the 1900s called "Last Train to Paradise". It's a fascinating story on the history of Key West and the trainline system connecting all the keys.

It was nice to see the portions of the abandoned line to Key West in person. I remember another portion where people were allowed to walk, and that's around where the highway and the line kinda separate.

A lot of the abandoned rail corridors here in the Los Angeles area (including the ones you showed) were once were part of the Pacific Electric Railway, which was the largest interurban network in the world, transporting both passengers and cargo through Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties over more than 1,000 miles of track. Some of the old PE rights-of-way have been converted into recreational trails, some have been revived with Metro light rail or Metrolink commuter service, and still others are used for freight by Union Pacific (which merged with PE's parent Southern Pacific in the 1990s). However, a large portion of them have disappeared altogether under streets, freeways, and neighborhoods.

I really love the abandoned feel, but during the 80s stuff was only starting to be abandoned since the railroads had only been deregulated a little while ago. Having at least 1 industrial line that’s still operating but only a few times a week on overgrown unmaintained track, just to give the feel that the railroad hasn’t gotten around to abandoning it yet

You need to do a alligator farm in the Everglades. Florida is known for alligators in the Everglades

2$20´s cities are always so beautiful, CS2 should use him as the art director :> Even when I don´t play or mod the game anymore, I always check new videos of what people accomplish with the game, it´s amazing. And it´s fun for me to watch my little car mods go around here too :>

I live in West Washington State, in a suburb outside Tacoma. Back in the day there used to be a rail line used for Lumber and Coal that ran thru the towns of Orting, South Prairie, Buckley, and Enumclaw. In it's hey day South Prairie used to have tens of thousands living there, but when the coal mining dried up, the importance of the rail line and the city itself vanished. The line got abandoned and the town shriveled to what it is now at just a couple hundred residents. Some years ago the State came and tore up most of the rails, paving a walking trail along the route called the Foothills Trail.

Thank you for taking the time to read my comment and implement fishing piers into Sunset City! Looks amazing as always!

cannot believe you didnt add fred the tree on one of the abandoned lines! would be a great tourist stop imho

What I think may work for the islands in terms of scale is a shared road/rail bridge, similar to how trams run on the street.

Coming from SoFla, you have been on point with this series! Thank you! One of my favorites is when you do your research and then readjust when locals have their input. It means a lot when you think about us when you build this fantastic city!

17:07 The cars on the right are driving into the ground

In my city the old cargo train line is now turning into bike path. It will be some sort of bike highway that will use existing infrastucture to connect a few cities. Some other old train lines were converted into intercity train lines. I live in Katowice, Poland. It is a dense urban area with many post industrial areas.

You completely nerddsniped me with the question of what funky rail infrastructure we have in the places we grew up in, ended up spending an hour looking at maps, databases, and forums xD In a town I somewhat grew up in there is a really weird bridge setup crossing a main rail line. 2 bridges, with a carlane each. The southern bridge is angled quite a bit, seemingly for no reason, but it's in fact an old railway bridge. The railway crossed the other one due to, what I can see to be, old station location, and grade. You can still see on satellite view where the line used to run. It's at 57.442472, 9.976105 if you wanna have a look 😄 That town, Hjørring, is just such a mess of roads and rail, I spend hours looking at the national Geodata Agency, hence why I love that area. It wasn't planned in the slightest (And it shows in the traffic), it really just was organically molded by the technology and money they had at the time along with the geography.

Hey Hey, the 80s were a time, where the US started to import japanese and korean cars in a big manner. I think it would be nice to include a rivalry of some sort between a newly established import car dealer and a more traditional car dealership for full-sized american cars, where the american dealer may has to take unconvenient actions to stay in business and keep out his rival.

I live in Dauphin PA and they took down the train bridge that cross over the Susquehanna but left the spots of raised land that upheld the supports and on the middle-most plot, they build a miniature replica of the Statue of Liberty

I love the pelican details - I've been trying to work more wild animals into my builds lately, too, but I've mostly stuck to woodland creatures roaming about; nice touch! Also, excellent to pay homage to Gloria Estefan, if you hadn't, the rhythm would've got you, but now Sunset City folk can do the conga without the words getting in the way.

The Northern Railway on Staten Island fell out of use around 1930 but the footprint still exists - several abandoned overpasses, with one leading to the harbor (now a drydock)

In my home town Hobart the train line now has a Cycle way next to it linking the northern suburbs to the city

The line down to Key West got trains all the way from New York and Boston, and there is a string of high-end resorts along it. I think it would be great to see that along the Seminole coast

For the issue with the on ramp at the intercity bus terminal, you could move the highway over the terminal and move the on ramp to between the two sides of the highway, so the cars merge in from the left, similar to a left-hand exit.

You should add an abandoned station, doesn't have to be anything fancy, for example the Wellow train station in the Uk, has just become someones back garden with two slabs of concrete in it.

So glad weekly vids are back. Been missing the Sunset City updates.

I think there is a naval air station in Key west in the real world. Although in you map there is not enough space to make a real one, but maybe on one of the island you can create a small abandoned airfield from WW2, and is now being used as a local small airfield/ aviation club so that some light aircraft such as cesna or even some personnal-collected WW2 fighter aircraft can be stationed there.

my state repurposed an old abandoned train line into a 200 mile long trail that is paved with concrete the whole way and runs from the big city of kansas city to the middle of nowhere. it’s a really nice trail to ride your bike on and ride through the nice neighborhoods it runs through! love the rock island trail!

The country I live in doesn't have any trains, but my hometown in America has a old station where they keep extra train cars that they aren't using.

fun fact: real life fort lauderdale airport and several areas of the city, was under 30-100cm of water like 2 weeks ago due to an intense local storm cell that got stuck over the city. areas as near as 10 miles away only received heavy rain.

My home city of Bristol has a repurposed train line to Bath which is now a walking/bike path. Bath also has another repurposed rail line south with the longest pedestrian tunnel in the UK!

In Toronto, we have the Beltline, an old rail corridor that has been converted to pedestrian paths.

I want to think that the Seminole Keyes used to have people living on them but thanks to the storm that destroyed the rail line property developers saw an opportunity to make a paradise island. They decided to raise property value forcing the native home owners to either move to Sunset City or further into the Seminoles.

Maybe adding an abandoned passenger station would be nice just like in the city “Le Blanc” in France. Love the abandoned rail yard.

I live near the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway here in Massachusetts. It's an old railway that led to an armory that has since been converted into a cycling and walking path. It's a great ride as it leads right to a shopping center I go to a lot.

A cool idea I thought of was to build a race track in style a Daytona superspeedway, it could hold NASCAR races, and those races sponsored by King Buns, giving the race a name like the "King Buns 400"

Eugene, Oregon used to have a tram line that (I believe) was originally pulled by horses/mules. It got removed fairly early in its life, but you can see some existing rails in some of the current roads. It's pretty cool to see, but I wish Eugene had a light rail around town today

I miss the oceania series. Hope you'll continue building that series. ❤️

My home city has a very weird bridge, crossing over a small residential street, a playground and some tram tracks. Really nothing warranting a quite long and elaborate bridge. That’s because this area used to be the approach tracks to the old central station. Since the „new“ station is itself over a hundred years old by now there isn’t much else left but this curious bridge.

Here in Copenhagen we also have a disused trainline, its on Amager and is fittingly called "amagerbanen" (the amager track). It has multiple uses along its lenght, from new roads to city development. And some parts of it have just been left to decay. But most importantly, a lot of it was reused in the construction of the m2 metro line serving the airport.

Humboldt county, california has a massive amount of abandoned train tracks. One of the most popular fishing spots in arcata is on the old train bridge

Couple of ideas Could the train line (if it extends to the “key west” island) repurpose their train line for a small island only trolley service? Also, I can’t remember if the coconut grove got its own name yet but an idea could be ‘palm estates’ or ‘palm grove’ or ‘29 palms’, something to do with palm trees

My city used to have tram/light rail run along side main road and kinda bypassing two of its train station, half of this line was shut down in 80s and the section repurposed as separated line for bikes and parking, the another half still used as commuter rail 30km down south, and since this is same gauge with main line, its not uncommon full sized train with tens of 20ft wagon (usually transporting ballast or cement) to used this line, but nowadays its a two round trip commuter train, and occasional steam train for tour running half-length of line, and yeah since its share sections with main road, whenever trains was going, chaos ensues.

I love this series, i just started playing CS again after seeing so many of your cities!

@18:45 Ah yes the new dlc hotels and resorts 😂

8 months along and i still come back to this playlist, lovely city 2d2t tahnks for the great content!

I know this is kind of a weird detail, but maybe you could add it. There is a place in the Florida Keys called Robbie's of Islamorada. It's a bar that sits in a tiny little marina. The main draw of this place is that you can buy a bucket of bait fish and feed these pretty large fish called Tarpon. It could add a lot of character to the area.

lots of the trans canada trail used to the trans canada railway, its now a walking, biking, etc path going all the way across Canada, including through cities such as Vancouver

For the fishing pier. You can make a tourist walking track. So people will walk on it :)

my home town (very small city) turned our old train line, along with the other cities it connected into a bike and walking path. its still under construction but will be around 21 km long when done.

Pelicans! Animated sharks! Wow...super.

Im just saying... The Golden Girls lived in Miami in 1983 (even though the show didn't start until 1985). Just saying it would be neat to see that in this series.

Nice build $2.20 - I am really enjoying seeing how these places you create come to life! Have you ever considered some abandoned platforms and shelters (now overgrown) where the former stations used to be? Also what about a radio mast to distribute radio signals to the islands of the latest shows of SparxFM and potential hurricane warnings to the citizens and holiday makers?

I think an abandoned airfield would look good on one of these islands

I thought you might find this interesting!! I live in the Wirral (Northern England) and if you give it a Google, you can find that we have this long walking path along the west of the peninsular. It actually used to be a trainline. They even keep the old platforms along the way. I've always thought it was one of the most interesting ways a place has repurposed a train line. It makes for a beautiful walk!

In Ballarat Australia, theres a trail called the Ballarat - Skipton Railtrail! its the old train network reused as a walking trail!

Its not my hometown, but Salt Lake City has a cool reusage of old track. TRAX, the city light rail service, was built fairly recently and on a limited budget. Not wanting to mess with already existing road infrastructure, the Utah Transit Authority set their sights on the old D&RGW Mainline through the city, which had been around for nearly 100 years at this point, and had traded hands many times, eventually ending up under the control of Union Pacific. UP didnt have much use for the line, outside of "renting" it out to Utah Railway and their subsidiaries, so UTA approached them about taking the dilapidated track off of their hands. After a relatively short process, TRAX now had rights over the line, and began retrofitting it for use by light rail trains. Interestingly though, the lines still see local freight service late at night, (I'm talking midnight afterwards) when the need for a light rail train is all but nonexistent. It's kind of a boring story, but I still find it cool that track built a century ago by a company that hasn't existed for half of that time can still find usage in the modern day.

You should add a snorkeling tour around some of the bridge parts

In London there is the Parkland Walk between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace, it is a disused railway line that was going to go to Esltree part of the Northern Heights

Here in Belgrade, Serbia because of a new real estate development project they had to moveout the main railway station. They then used some parts of the old tracks to install benches and other things in the new park that was built on that site.

If you are interested in different ways to handle abandoned infrastructure a look at my hometown Berlin might be worth it. In the 20s and 30s it was a fast growing economic hub and political and financial center build for further growth. Though after the war the city never recovered and lost most of its population, its industry and trade due to the wartime destruction, the wall and soviet reparations. So you can see a lot of abandoned infrastructure. Not only abandoned tranelines, old train stations, half finished Metro and suburban lines and so on, but also a lot of old canals, repurposed harbours and very recently also 2 former international airports about whose future usage the citizens and politicians do not yet have come to any sustainable agreement.

ahah what a teasing at the end! so good thx so much for your work

i live in atlanta and we have a 22 mile loop of walking path circling the downtown. it used to be a railroad

10:46 I know that boardwalks and arcades are more of a North Atlantic thing, but what about making this island of the Seminole keys into a casino/leisure area? Complete with a long pier/boardwalk

has the NFL finally expanded into Sunset City?!? The Stingrays could be a good mascot

I don't live in Miami, but I've seen a "busway" where there's a road only used for buses with bus stops. I think there are even old train stations on the road as well.

i was actually just in the keys and learned tons about thiis rail line henry flagler was one of the richest people in the world when he made it as he was known for making thousands of miles of rail line throughought the U.S. when his florida keys line was operating you could from seattle to the keys without and switchovers which is truly amazing. If you go down to the key west Customs House Musuem theres a massive permenant exhibit on this

Milwaukee, Wisconsin has the Fairfield to Milwaukee line is an old Union Pacific rail line that is mostly been converted to the Oak Leaf Trail that takes you all the way to downtown Milwaukee from the Fairfield/Glendale/Whitefish Bay area. It's pretty cool and pretty visible from google maps most of it is paved at this point, but a lot of the old rail bridges are still used.

In the United Kingdom, we have thousands of miles of old railways closed in the 60s for financial reasons (Somerset and Dorset, Great Central Main Line, Scottish Borders Line etc). Many of these have been turned into light rail since the 80s (Nottingham, Manchester, Croydon, and Sheffield), some have been reopened (Exeter - Okehamton, Argyle Line, Edinbrugh - Tweedbank), some have been turned into heritage railways (Great Central Main Line (Nottingham - Leciester) and many others around the country) while others have been turned into walking trails (most notably the Maunsall Trail. Look up the Beeching Axe if you want to know more!

The small town where I live used to have a passenger train station, but it is not in use anymore because of the steel factory nearby needs the rail I guess

In the Netherlands we have something like a Museum steam train from Hoorn to Medemblik. I used to be an old conation between some town in the Province of North Holland around 1900. Now you can take that train and when you arrive in Medemblik you kan take a old Boat to Enkhuizen. There is the Zuiderzee museum. With old museum Village from 1900.. from there you can take the normal train to Hoorn again. Back where you came from. It's very nice to ride.

It would be cool to see an airsoft arena in that old factory area, I think it would make a great map for airsofters.

cleveland has tons of old, abandoned rail lines, including a fully functional subway system that was just never used (thanks auto industry...). it was actually through the efforts of art historians that our iconic rail draw/lift bridges were saved from demo, and given historic landmark status. we also have the old ohio & erie canal which linked the cuyahoga river to akron, south of cleveland. now, a lot of those abandoned lines have been repurposed as the cuyahoga valley scenic rail line, and more towpaths and trails than i could ever hope to walk... all stemming from the systematic rise and steady decline of industry in the area, i guess? lol...

13-24 is a compact bus station with buses you can put buses in there and then out of City buses in there to

one thing I've always wanted in cities skylines is the opportunity for an international car racing series to approach you to use your city to create a racetrack. we see it a lot in real life and I think it would create an interesting gameplay dynamic of keeping residents happy and the Motorsport officials. obviously depending on it's success it could be a huge cash injection. Anyway just thinking out loud

They did the same thing here in Zürich, part of a Train viaduct going through the city is not used anymore due to them building a tunnel so its now an elevated walkway and even a public river Bath/ swimming spot

In my old town where i was born there was a walking track called the rail trail and it connected basically to every single town but it was abandoned because it ran out of money

I'd love to see an island fort and a lighthouse out on one of the islands. It could be converted into a tourist destination and hotel. Would have been a convenient destination for the rail line, and once the fort was decommissioned, the train line would no longer be needed.

If you want people to walk on the fishing pier you could add a walking tour! By placing a stop at the end of the pier it will force any person on the tour to walk all the way to the end, stop, and then walk all the way back out

Beautiful creation really nice built! 😊❤

the High line is very nice! walked it 2-3 times over the past 2 years. Did you know that the train line to key west as made back then to bring freight and tourist to key west,to develop it and to chase the last pirates who were operating from key west, it was the last pirate bastion.

Another amazing Cities Skylines video! More please! ❤

Didn’t expect to hear “as good as lipstick on a pig because absolutely nobody is going inside it” in a two dollars twenty video.

Kaseya Centre (FAB / FTX / AA arena) was completed in late '99 worth considering leaving out; idk how strict you're keeping in the 80's timeline since you mentioned building it again? South beach and Brickell are really the best spots in Miami, my limited knowledge of the area but ocean drive really captures the vibe of the SB island, look at all the cool restaurants that have outside dining spill onto the one way road near the rainbow crosswalk, would love to see an attempt at that in game ^^ ive lived in the Boca Raton area which is kinda the opposite in terms of planning.. (unnecessarily huge roads, almost zero walk ability, very car centric. the only positive is the weather and the nice apartment complexes) wouldn't be Florida without that representation imo, since you merged FLL and MIA

Love the stream and your content ❤. But I’m just wondering if it’s possible to maybe have the background music a bit louder in the Timelapse’s? I understand if not, and all the best. Love this series and hopefully Oceania can be back soon!

You can have a shared train car bridge. Back when cars where less invasive it could have been used like that

We got a few freight lines in Helsinki which have been mostly repurposed as bike "motorways" or demolished, etc..

One over the peak district called the Woodhead Line! Its a mainline also!

Funny how Miami is looking to expand commuter rail right now through some freight lines.

In singapore we have this island that is very touristy called Sentosa, I think this maybe of interest to add to the hotel on the island

You should try build something a bit like the hard rock stadium in Miami, with the race track around it but just in an older era? i think it would suite the city quite well in a 'new development' possibly

a small water park/large and varied pool area would look nice next to a resort

Amazing build! 👏

You should add some US Navy ships around Key West, in the 80s the US was getting stronger and stronger and it would make sense to see some military base/ smaller port near Key west.

Hey an idea if your trying to go for the key west vibe would be to turn one of the remaining islands into the airbase next to key west? It has tons of potential and google earth has some good images

Little details always looks really good if you pay attention your city and I'm you like one of Person of do little details and then go back to improve it and make it look so good I feel like you doing really good work

Sunset City neighborhoods can be like this: Coconut Grove = Palm Grove Design District + Wynwood = Hermes District Edgewater + Morningside = Marina Liberty City = Empire Square Upper East Side = Bayview Heights Allapattah = Calusa Brickell = Kingsrow Coral Way = Coral City/Reef City Flagami + West Flager + Little Havana = Little Havana or Hispanic City/Sunset South Beach = Ocean Beach Mid Beach = Sunset Vista North Beach = Sunset Point