Need some help with my rail system

[Tilarium]

Hey all, I need some help here.  I guess the best why is to describe the situation.  I built a small city that was close to the rail line I ran through it, over time that city expanded north... really far north.  Now I need to adjust my rail system to compensate the passangers.  The easy why that requires no help is to just built a line from the new point north and around the mountain in the middle to connect with the rail system in the industrial part of town and just forget about connecting it to the residential part.  However, what I'd prefer is to run it south to connect with the other system.  I always though that there was a way to connect other rail systems to the ground rail system but I can't seem to find out.  I'm using NAM and really would like to do either the El or the GLR rail systems to blend in with the streets and then connect to the ground system, but doesn't look like there's a connector for that.  Anyone offer any advice on what I should do?

Kyle

[Rady]

AFAIK you cannot connect standard rail wit ground light rail since the GLR is just a modification of the elevated rail, and you cannot combine elevated with regular rail. As you see from how the networks are arranged in the menu, the regular rail is seperated from the elevated rail.
Additionally, I dont know of any such conversion in RL. Basically, it doesn't make sense. So IMO the proper way to change between these two network types is to build a regular and a GLR rail station beneath each other so that the commuters can change the network.

[Tilarium]

That's what I ended up doing.  I found some nice terminals that have both rail and GLR so figured it was perfect for what I wanted.  Not sure if the residents are smart enough to figure it out!

[Nardo69]

You can built such transfer hubs, and if the conection over the different rail systems is still shorter than any road connection quite a lot of sims (not all, especially the rich ones prefer their car) will use it.

It isn't even necessary to build such a combined railway / GLR hub, a railway station and a GLR station connected by network pieces (road, street, etc.) will work fine, too. The important thing is that the railway / GLR connection should be shorter than any road connections.

However there are several transition pieces between the rail systems:

From morifari there is a GLR-to Subway - lot:

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=14932

as well as a hillside transition elRail to Subway:

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=11413

Quite some time ago Equinox made a Railway-to-Subway Transition

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=4174

that was later modded into a GLR-to-Subway Transition, too:

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=13598

There are also some Railway-to-ElRail conversion lots on some japanese sites but I don't have their links, sorry.

With these conversion lots you connect all your networks "directly" over short subway sections.

Bernhard 

[dragonshardz]

And they only carry passenger traffic.