Talk:Rail Yard/@comment-24669562-20150904195622

I love this! This gives me hope. Being able to permanently add track and stuff (I care more about the track than anything else right now, especially the straight track).

I was starting to lose hope and gain doubt that I would be able to build a big loop of track (I say "loop" thanks to one of the Wikia Contributors below this message") but now I know that I can continue to gain more track after the event is over.

Ah ah ah...Not so fast! First I have to collect all 10 prizes before it's too late and have to constantly work my Springfielders at the Springfield Dump, Metal Depot and Plastic Depot, and keep those Springfielders available in order to obtain these prizes faster and not have them doing long other activities unrelated to the monorail and having to wait to have them available, learned that the hard way.

And I have to constantly play Tapped Out to gain these prizes and visit other Springfields, and also hope other players visit mine and dump trash (normally I'd be against this, and I don't like to put graffiti on anyone's buildings, but this is a very welcome action). And also get my possums running so I can catch them.

So my new goal now is to vy for that Rail Yard and before it's too late that way once I get it, I'll be able to make my Monorail as big as I like, although it is going to mean relocating or selling buildings and other objects and I just sold one of my brown houses to make way for the track and I've got more houses to sale or relocate.

I also thank FauxCerf for all his help and support.

On a side note, though I like the monorail in the Springfied Tapped Out game, I'm more of a fan of at-grade railroads than underground (subways) or elevated railroads, including monorail, although I'd rather ride above-ground trains than subways, subways are sort of interesting but scare me, I like at-grade railroads mainly because they include, at least most of them do, at-grade railroad crossings, which most people don't like or hate but I like them, especially the ones that come with gates and flashing red lights, that's my most favorite part of any and every railroad, although I don't mind having some grade-separation (when cars and trucks and other street-road vehicles pass over or under the tracks without having to wait for a train and without the risk of getting hit by a train, which causes train delays, injuries, and fatalities, and even train derailments or crashes, all of which are absolutely needless. But I just find the flashing red lights, the ringing bells and down gates, which also have lights on them in the US and some other countries, entertaining. And it's nice the Simpsons has included that in some episodes, my most favorite so far is "Them Robot", even wrote a blog about it you can check out if you want: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:WillTheArthurandBusterFan5050/Them_Robot_Railroad_Crossing_Gates The one on the episode where the Simpsons go to Florida is okay too but I like the Them Robot one best and hope in future episodes they'll do better than in "Them Robot."

But I'm willing to settle for the monorail in my Springfield Tapped Out, and I am a fan of mass passenger transportation, especially when it travels by rail (Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Light Rail, Regional Rail, Streetcars (which we now have in Tucson, Phoenix has Light Rail) and even tourist and excursion trains. I'm a railfan. I even have HO scale model trains.

I got off topic but I just thought I'd share my passion for trains. But I'm satisfied with the Springfield Monorail and long to add to it if and when I can, and so what if it's not at-grade, it's still a train and I like places with trains,