Slightly's 'Striking North' Compatibility Mod

Main features

The North Bryson Branch is a quiaint little addition to the Bryson area, originally connecting to that irritating useless spur in vanilla. Well, the Bryson Roundhouse does away with that spur, but a short little industrial banch up the mountain is still not a bad idea. Yo might even have grown used to it, and want it back. Or, maybe you're playing multiplayer, and the guy posted up in Bryson yard wants a bit more to do while waiting for freight to be brought up from the interchange.

Well, there are complications.

The most straightforward way to link up the North Bryson Branch is to bring it around the back of the Roundhouse and connect it to the Yard. It doesn't work. The Roundhouse is so complex, the game will keep glitching out if you so much as touch the area, and you'll find yourself running trains through terrain. Not ideal. Maybe after MOW.

In the meantime, we need to go the other way round: connect the North Bryson Branch to the standby spur going along the road beyond the western edge of the Roundhouse. The spur was elongated to accept 6-7 cars to the swtch depending on your loco's lengh, which should be plenty, considering some of the track on the branch goes up to 3-5% grade and beyond.

I've also made some QOL adjustments (the main branchline trackage should comfortably go up to 25 mph all along the branch, outside the industry areas themselves), some scenery additions and modifications, and I also added a bit of progression allowing you to invest into the coal mine on top of the branch to open up a small source of coal in close proximity to the Roundhouse's ever hungering coaling tower.

Installation instructions

Drop into Railloader and off you go.

Requirements

Strange Customs, as for all map mods,

Strykersrevenge's Bryson Roundhouse Revamp'ed,

CGACGACGA's North Bryson Branch,

and of course their own dependencies.

You'll also need Slightly's Striking-RTM Concilliator to stop the Roundhouse glitching out the scenery items from RTM Asset Pack.

RTM, ALW and CLB Asset packs are soft requirements for scenery items.

... I might have gone slightly overboard with the scenery.