/vr/ - Retro Games

Here's my fastest type of locomotive right now. It can go 95 km/h, but steam engines that can go 110 km/h will be invented soon and will replace these. It's much more expensive to operate than the 2100-C, costs about twice as much both to buy and maintain over time. Since I'll be playing a long game with steady inflation over time, considering operating costs will become very important in the future. Thus, these trains are reserved for long, busy express routes. The brown carriages identify it as a Limited Express train. Since they travel along the longest routes between major cities, they will be the most profitable trains in the system.
After the end of the steam era, these routes will be served by fast inter-city EMUs, but many of the longer routes will be augmented or replaced by a separate high-speed Shinkansen network. In 50 years those Shinkansen lines will form the backbone of the network running from one end of Honshu to the other.