[WIP]railroad/transit system/map in fictional slavic world

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I think, that building railways is quite expensive in any time...
What about some major lines from city to city, catching as much of them as possible. Then there would be enough space (and money) to connect major cities to its neighbor-cities.

This is how railways would be built if they were being built today... but in Europe, North America and many other places, most railways were built in the 19th century. They started out as short-distance transport and were connected afterward.

This is a big part of why maps of the railway systems of socialist countries don't look different from those of other countries. The other is that socialist governments aren't post-scarcity. They don't change the basic nature of people and goods moving between places.

Looking back, I can see why I had the "island" reaction. There are no railway connections to neighboring countries. (Except those connections across the gap, which are at least physically feasible.) I suppose that would depend on "how does this fictionation fit into the world", a problem I've never understood how to solve.

The newest map makes things look stranger. Now there are more cases of parallel lines. They're obviously skirting somewhere impassable or nearly so - an inland sea? Honestly, trying to curve your lines doesn't add to realism when you don't know why you're doing it. I accepted the straight-line map as a schematic.

At this stage, you have a rough map, and a rough concept that I don't really follow. Either choose to take the map and justify it (as I tried to), or go back to the concept, develop it, and redesign the map to suit.

One of my favorite sites, which should give a lot of ideas for what real railway systems look like:
http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/maps.php