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I mean real maps. When building a real world rrt3 map, I always try to find an older railway map, showing most railways now closed down, example: I have access to a collection of maps covering each of all US states in 1948 (McNally). In fact I'm doing a lot of research when building a map about a region in the real world (maps, google satelite maps/photographs taken on location, geography and historical event information from the Internet (if any avaiable). On contrary, building fictional maps from the scratch, having the full "artists fredom", I often start with drawing a sketch showing the railway system I would like to build, adding a coastline, some rivers and a few terrain curves, using MS paint (bitmap) and later photoshop (tga) before I go to the RRT3 editor
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