[pierreh]

Thanks for your posts, Brian and 'Darth-Apple'.

To Brian: my experiences with underground rail were quite limited. I remember testing some underground rail features for Steve, a long time ago. I also remember trying once to implement a section of underground rail in a city, and finding out that it didn't carry any traffic, whereas, after I changed it back to regular surface rail, it promptly showed a lot of traffic. This is why I didn't even try to replace the severed rail section by underground rail in the current case.

"Also , I was wondering you considered using a rail viaduct or rail bridge over the RHW to continue with the rail network there ? ". Where the railway tracks used to be placed, if you look at the RHW, you can see that there is a Level 0 to Level 2 height transition on the MIS ramp. There is no piece allowing railway tracks to pass over such a height transition. Therefore, a viaduct was - as far as I can determine - not possible there, and, short of massive tearing down of commercial buildings, there was no other path possible for the railway tracks across the highway. Hence my decision to build a new station for those tracks. Now if the Sims can start using that station I'll be very pleased.