Imperialian Rail Freight Solutions
A Private Syndicate-Corporation of Klaus Devestatorie.
Why choose Imperialian Rail Freight Solutions?
In a nation where rail is often the only link between cities, industries and ports, Imperialian Rail Freight Solutions (IRFS) is the largest, most successful, most efficient and most reliable rail corporation Klaus Devestatorie has ever seen. Some think freight trains can only take good from point A to point B; but IRFS does so much more; we are the strongest link in the chains from Klaus Devestatorie’s mining sector to Klaus Devestatorie’s manufacturing sector, the strongest link in the chains from the manufacturing sector to the international shipping ports, and we return with everything the syndicate corporations of Klaus Devestatorie could possibly require. We feed the people and ensure the people can be fed. Our partner corporation, Imperialian Rail Passenger Solutions, move hundreds of millions of people a year between the largest cities in Klaus Devestatorie. We make Klaus Devestatorie tick, and now we’ll be more than happy to help your nation tick, too.
What exactly does Imperialian Rail Freight Solutions sell?
IRFS sells rail freight cars of various types (flatcars for shipping containers, boxcars, tank cars for liquids, refrigerated cars, livestock cars and hoppers for raw minerals). We also sell secured versions of the most common variants of these, as well as powerful locomotives to pull these cars. Finally, and most importantly, we sell the DPR and raw materials for the rail gauge these run on; Imperialian Rail Gauge.
What’s the Imperialian Rail Gauge, and why is it superior?
The Imperialian Rail Gauge is a quirk of Klaus Devestatorie’s railways. It is, as far as we know, unique to Klaus Devestatorie itself. The needs of a nation that mostly operates on rail has caused the railroads to evolve over time to be superior in several ways compared to standard railroads.
This is a design of an Imperialian Rail Gauge. The first thing that should be noted is that the rails are much, much wider than normal rails. The standard gauge worldwide is rails that are 4ft or 48 inches apart from each other; the Imperialian Rail Gauge is much wider. These rails are 3 and a half metres wide, or 11.5ft wide; nearly 3 times as wide as standard gauge. Trains using the Imperialian Rail Gauge are therefore much, much larger than ordinary freight trains; meaning each train will be capable of carrying far more cargo than a competitor using inferior standard gauge trains.
You will also notice the wires running down the middle of the tracks; these are optic fibre cables. The locomotives use laser and computer technology to constantly relay its position, as well as the size and other details of the train to the operators of the rail network. Never worry about train crashes caused by faulty signals again; an Imperialian Rail Gauge network has computerised failsafes that use this information to detect the potential for future train crashes, and automatically stop them before they happen by overriding the brakes of the trains in question. On top of this, the humans operating the network can use standard inbuilt satellite phone communications to contact the operators of trains, and stop crashes before the automatic failsafe needs to turn on.
It is not necessary to replace your entire rail network with Imperialian Gauge Rail; At the moment, we are only selling freight, and hence it is only necessary to replace the rails on freight routes or simply ensure that new freight routes use Imperialian Gauge Rail. Sometime in the near future, we expect our partner corporation Imperialian Rail Passenger Solutions to also enter the international market. It is possible to buy an alternative variant of Imperialian Gauge Rail (sold as a separate DPR) that also provides standard gauge rails between the same tracks, allowing your new and old trains to operate on the same network. The downside to this is that IRFS is presently not configuring locomotives on the standard gauge to operate with the fibre optic rail technology.
Finally, you don’t need to go through and do all the maths on how much each locomotive can pull before you buy and accidentally end up with not enough pulling power- we’ve kept these calculations simple for your convenience, and standardized the sizes of all rail cars and locomotives, too.
Are Domestic Production Rights available?
Domestic production rights or DPR are necessary for Imperialian Gauge Rail; it is not sold any other way. Railway lines are constructed on site and not in factories in another country; we can and do sell the raw materials, but in order to effectively use them it is necessary to buy the plans, to allow you to construct complicated networks such as railway terminals. Luckily for your nation, all the necessary plans come in the one DPR purchase and actually constructing the rails themselves is an excellent way to provide large scale employment in your nation; in Klaus Devestatorie, the rail network provides continuous employment for millions of syndicated citizens.
Domestic Production Rights are available on all models.
Present discounts on products and to individual nations
There are no present discounts on products or to individual nations.
OOC: Also, prices might seem odd at first, because I'm really not sure on what I should actually be charging for these things; I'm filling a market here that I just can't see filled anywhere else.
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