Hoping to vet a work in progress - followup to last week angielski
Hi, I hope this is okay, I made some progress on a line art photobash to go with the scene I was describing and I was hoping to run it by you folks in case anything needs to change (scale, layout, etc) before I get into the detail work.
This is the text:
*This train runs all the way up to the high speed rail network linking Canadian cities, but your itinerary has you stop at a branch line to board a railbus hauling freight and passengers deeper into New Hampshire. Once the last gasp of dying railroads in low traffic areas, these vehicles have seen a resurgence on restored short lines all throughout the region, where small communities are trying to reestablish rail transportation with limited means.*Under the various modifications and sheet metal welded to the chassis, this one appears to be an old electric bus raised onto rail bogies. The driver is a cheerful older man wearing a grey-striped engineer’s cap and a pin from a railcar operator’s club. The interior is dated, in a corporate sort of way, but comfortable, and the vehicle moises along more or less silently. Now and then, the driver reaches a town with overhead wires and pauses to extend the pantograph rig.
If the players decide to talk to the driver, his name is Carl, and he’s a member of the hobbyist railcar club that maintained the tracks in the years when people thought trains would never return. They were the first people to operate a passenger service on these tracks, before the towns officially started helping.
The towns here are smaller, and the trackside places are a bit nicer. The last time these tracks saw steady use they bore coal-powered steam trains. Property values went up when those ceased operations in the interstate age and the tracks were temporarily reduced to a scenic bike path.
You disembark at the end of the train line, a village called Center Sterling. The last public transit route in the direction you’re going is a ropeway stretching off into the forest. They’re extending the tracks further out, but in a different direction, so presumably your destination isn’t getting train access anytime soon.
Thank you!

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