Year by year
What arrives in each era.
Every vehicle, building and bridge style, in the year it first appears.
On sale from the start: Comet City Bus, Atlas Hauler, Kestrel Steam, Gull Ferry, Tern Freighter, Petrel Tanker, Petrel Mailplane, Brigand Tank Engine, Skylark Prop.
| Year | Era | What arrives |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Post-war Steam engines, brick terraces and small market towns. | 1954 Highland Mogul (train) 1955 Apartment block (building) 1956 Comet Double-Decker (road vehicle) 1958 Majestic Liner (ship) 1958 Stork Cargo Prop (aircraft) 1960 Meridian Diesel (train) 1960 Steel arch (bridge) 1962 Albatross Jet (aircraft) 1962 Office tower (building) 1964 Atlas Hauler Mk II (road vehicle) |
| 1965 | Jet age Diesels and jets, the first high-rises, industry gears up. | 1965 Oil Refinery also makes plastics. 1965 Power Station also takes oil. 1965 Suspension (bridge) 1966 Sparrow Railcar (train) 1968 Comet Coach (road vehicle) 1968 Kittiwake Turboprop (aircraft) 1968 Residential tower (building) 1972 Skimmer Hydrofoil (ship) 1975 Modern home (building) 1975 Pelican Freighter (aircraft) 1975 Vanguard Express (train) 1977 Arrow Supersonic (aircraft) 1978 Condor Jumbo (aircraft) 1979 Ironclad Freight Diesel (train) |
| 1980 | Late century Electric trains, container ships, shopping centres and modern homes. | 1980 Atlas Box Carrier (ship) 1980 Comet Articulated (road vehicle) 1980 New: Recycling Plant. Turns the waste towns throw away into goods. 1980 Towns produce waste, the way they produce mail. 1983 Shopping centre (building) 1984 Osprey Widebody (aircraft) 1985 Aurora Electric (train) 1986 Atlas Hauler Mk III (road vehicle) 1989 Falcon Narrowbody (aircraft) 1992 Granite Bulk Carrier (ship) 1992 Tech park (building) 1994 Titan Road Train (road vehicle) |
| 1995 | Information age High-speed rail and tech parks replacing old workshops. | 1995 Atlas Car Transporter (road vehicle) 1995 New: Car Plant. Needs steel, plastics and electronics together to make cars, which pay well but take up room. 1995 New: Electronics Plant. Needs steel and plastics together to make electronics, which pay well but spoil fast. 1995 Swift High-Speed (train) 1995 Towns of 1,000 people or more take cars. 1995 Towns take electronics at stations that reach one of these: Office tower, Shopping centre, Tech park. 1996 Swift Regional Jet (aircraft) 2003 Swallow Tilting Express (train) 2007 Leviathan Double-Deck (aircraft) |
| 2010 | Green age Electric buses and clean, efficient industry. | 2010 Coal Mine is on its way out: output falls a little every year. 2010 New: Wind Farm Site. Deliver steel and electronics to build a wind farm: it lifts the towns around it. 2010 Power Station also takes wood, grain. 2010 Power Station is on its way out: one nobody supplies may close. 2010 Volt Electric Bus (road vehicle) 2016 Volt Electric Truck (road vehicle) 2020 Ripple Electric Ferry (ship) 2022 Zephyr Hydrogen (train) 2024 Tempest Electric Freight (train) 2030 Breeze Electric Commuter (aircraft) 2038 Aurora H2 Airliner (aircraft) |