Second Life Not Only Has User-Created Railway Systems, Someone Made This Amazing Travel Map for Them

The Second Life train community (railway/train creators, engineers, regular passengers) is yet another awesomely geeky subculture I've been meaning to write about for years, and this recent /SecondLife post is a good place to start: Created by Rydia Lacombe, behold this beautiful traveler's map to the railway systems of Second Life. (Get a free copy on the Marketplace here.)

And yes yes, you can not only ride these trains, you can BYOT them. (Bring your own train.)

As /Stellaaahhhh explains:

You can drive the train! There are even free ones on the mp. Then just find a rezz zone and put your train on the tracks. Someone picked me up in one of the Bellesaria neighborhoods just a few days ago.

Here's a Google Spreadsheet guide listing all the stations.

Next question: Is there also a train robbery community in SL, or does Red Dead Online get all that fun?

Comments

[AM Radio]

There’s a defunct railway too. The operator just left the locomotive where it last stopped, and it has been rusting in a field ever since. It’s been there in SL forever. Somebody ought to haul the eye sore away.

[KharmaObscura]

I have been on your locomotive AM. I have posed in the sun

[Michael B.]

Woot, trains! The GSLR, "The Connection Across the ANWR Channel"!

[Valentina Kendal]

/me laughs at Mr. Radio's comment

[Ilsa Hesse]

AM,
Not to gush, but it was Hamlet's book and the Far Away that made me come to SL and stay!