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The Pampas in Uruguay is very sparesly populated.
Example: The capital Montevideo has a population of 1.3 million....in RRT set to 400%, the typical population of one of the few small cities on Las Pampas is less than about 50.000.....is set to 35%, and a typical village on the pampas is less than 2000 inhabitants....is set to 10-13%.
Building this map i have checked every city/town/village/place shown on this map on the internet, and only a few real cities were found. Las Pampas is a rather desolate place to live, it's cowboy country with more cattle and sheep than people, some stations are only places with a few houses nearby, where livestock and wool is picked up and only a little goods is delivered in return! Sometimes a passenger or two shows up, boarding or disembarking the daily mixed train, and less than an hour later everything is very silent for the next 24 hours. The game starts with 85% population density in 1875, in the real world almost nothing was to be found on Las Pampas in the beginning.
Owned by a British consortiom and nationalized in 1948, railways in Uruguay were never very profitable. In todays Uruguay, railways are in a very desolate condition, mostly freight only and with some local passenger trafic around the capital Montevideo.
I admit this map is somewhat difficault to play. You have to build a solid industrial base of your own, or your railway will have to struggle for its life for the whole game, clothing, meat and wool is delivered for export in Montevideo, exactly as in the real world and you will only get a little, steel,oil, weapons and other imports in return. Your (mostly mixed trains) trains often have to return half empty to the Pampas. In Montevideo you have to build 3 types of buyable ports to make the export flow. Personally I found it a challenge to play this map under these conditions and won the silver a few years before run out of time
PS:I could change the size of the cities, but then we can wave goodbye to realism
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