Hi, I hope this is okay, I made some progress on a line art photobash to go with the scene I was describing and I was hoping to run it by you folks in case anything needs to change (scale, layout, etc) before I get into the detail work.

This is the text:

This train runs all the way up to the high speed rail network linking Canadian cities, but your itinerary has you stop at a branch line to board a railbus hauling freight and passengers deeper into New Hampshire. Once the last gasp of dying railroads in low traffic areas, these vehicles have seen a resurgence on restored short lines all throughout the region, where small communities are trying to reestablish rail transportation with limited means. Under the various modifications and sheet metal welded to the chassis, this one appears to be an old electric bus raised onto rail bogies. The driver is a cheerful older man wearing a grey-striped engineer’s cap and a pin from a railcar operator’s club. The interior is dated, in a corporate sort of way, but comfortable, and the vehicle moises along more or less silently. Now and then, the driver reaches a town with overhead wires and pauses to extend the pantograph rig.

If the players decide to talk to the driver, his name is Carl, and he’s a member of the hobbyist railcar club that maintained the tracks in the years when people thought trains would never return. They were the first people to operate a passenger service on these tracks, before the towns officially started helping.

The towns here are smaller, and the trackside places are a bit nicer. The last time these tracks saw steady use they bore coal-powered steam trains. Property values went up when those ceased operations in the interstate age and the tracks were temporarily reduced to a scenic bike path.

You disembark at the end of the train line, a village called Center Sterling. The last public transit route in the direction you’re going is a ropeway stretching off into the forest. They’re extending the tracks further out, but in a different direction, so presumably your destination isn’t getting train access anytime soon.

Thank you!