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[Loud Whispers]

And a river thames to complete it. I don't think you could fit all of that in one fortress...

[Gizogin]

The real question is, who's going to be the first to make a scale model of this in Dwarf Fortress?

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And of course it wouldn't be complete without a number of ghosts to haunt it.

Well, part of the problem is that I doubt you can link minecarts together, so all of the trains would just be single minecarts.  Unless you were to get the timing perfect somehow so that you have a line of minecarts all moving at the same speed at regular intervals.

You also wouldn't really be able to get "mind the gap" across to your dwarves.

Oh, and the sheer size would be an issue as well.  If you could link several embarks together, it might work, but then you get into that one-tile border between 16x16 embarks, which I'm not sure you can get around.
Someone should probably work out how big it would actually need to be.

[FearfulJesuit]

A smaller but still challenging subway system like the Boston T:

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or the Budapest system:

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might be easier than London or New York.

[Garath]

I'm going with the amsterdam one, easiest ever, pretty much looks like a H

[FrisianDude]

Begin the age of industrialism.

Well, begin. We already had electricity and just look at the amount of coal us Dwarfs dig up for steel production.

[GhostDwemer]

OOh! A London Underground map? Looks like a game of Mornington Crescent! Which rules are we using? I suggest the Bethlehem Variant Rules, and if this is accepted, I move to Shepherd's Bush, for a double score.

[KodKod]

OOh! A London Underground map? Looks like a game of Mornington Crescent! Which rules are we using? I suggest the Bethlehem Variant Rules, and if this is accepted, I move to Shepherd's Bush, for a double score.

A strong opening move, for certain.

Wembley Central.

[Dish It Out!]

OOh! A London Underground map? Looks like a game of Mornington Crescent! Which rules are we using? I suggest the Bethlehem Variant Rules, and if this is accepted, I move to Shepherd's Bush, for a double score.

A strong opening move, for certain.

Wembley Central.

I haven't a clue what these loons are talking about.

[simonthedwarf]

Maybe he will add magma powered locomotives that we can drive into kobold camps.

[TheProphet]

OOh! A London Underground map? Looks like a game of Mornington Crescent! Which rules are we using? I suggest the Bethlehem Variant Rules, and if this is accepted, I move to Shepherd's Bush, for a double score.

A strong opening move, for certain.

Wembley Central.

Interesting.
Bethnal Green.

[KodKod]

Interesting.
Bethnal Green.

Oh wow, that's a hell of a risky strategy. It'll be exciting to see whether or not it pays off.

When my next turn comes around you're all in for it though, so you'd best hope someone pulls off something spectacular to throw my game. I'm a bit rusty but I was a master of Mornington Crescent back at university.

[RedKing]

I have but one reaction to the latest devlogs:

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I'd designed and attempted "Maginot Line" style fortresses before (burrows in individual hillocks, sealed to surface entry except for one Trade burrow, and linked by a subterranean "road"). But the road access was slow and laborious. But with the Grand Underground Railroad....

[Xebeth]

Hyde Park Corner

[Garath]

curious enough to google it and wiki
mornington crescent:

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Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated panel games[1].
 
The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The apparent[1] aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern Line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game,[2] and both the naming of stations and the specification of "rules" are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.[3] Thus the game is intentionally incomprehensible.[4]

[davros]

The real question is, who's going to be the first to make a scale model of this in Dwarf Fortress?

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And of course it wouldn't be complete without a number of ghosts to haunt it.

Never mind London, try Japan.