Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Building a new modern train station and talking about trains and railways in the Central European region of the Eastern Bloc.
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Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Information about sources:
My primary sources are in Czech and Slovak, because I understand it and I can easily borrow books, search theses, articles or old TV programmes. This gives me information about Czechoslovakia. After learning or confirming something, I search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary through online articles or videos, but also sometimes English books that I can see through library access. Although some sources pop up from those other countries first. I don't research the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, since that is not where the series is from. I also don't focus on political theory but rather the reality.
Pictures credits:
(1) V55 by Popescu / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(2) ET21-70 (CTL Logistics) + SM31-025 (Sp. k. TORO) by Chris / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(3) 230 045 CD Prerov by Petr Štefek / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(4) 211 049-2 Deutsche Reichsbahn DR Koblenz 13.06.15 by Paul Smith / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(5) BR 132 158-7 im Bahnhof Marienfelde by Sebastian Rittau / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-4.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
(6) 95339 Neuenmarkt, Germany by simon tunstall / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(7) FORTEPAN / UVATERV - Budapest-Déli pályaudvar, 1975
(8) Katowice railway station by Janusz Jakubowski / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Major sources:
Books and magazines:
(I) "Železnice v srdci Evropy: 100 let našich drah" (Railways in the heart of Europe: 100 years of our railways)
(II) "Naše dráhy ve 20. století: pohledy do železniční historie" (Our railways in the 20th century: look into railway history)
(III) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in architecture through the eyes of the witnesses)
TV and video:
(IV) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(V) Recent TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Browsing Google Maps and Streetview
(VII) Museum visits, attending historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com or fortepan.com
(IX) Various online articles after searching the railway companies (DR etc.) and individual locomotives and their histories
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building a new modern train station and talking about trains and railways in the Central European region of the Eastern Bloc.
You can directly support the channel by becoming a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
Twitch - twitch.tv/akruas
Mod collections: steamcommunity.com/id/akruas/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710
Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Information about sources:
My primary sources are in Czech and Slovak, because I understand it and I can easily borrow books, search theses, articles or old TV programmes. This gives me information about Czechoslovakia. After learning or confirming something, I search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary through online articles or videos, but also sometimes English books that I can see through library access. Although some sources pop up from those other countries first. I don't research the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, since that is not where the series is from. I also don't focus on political theory but rather the reality.
Pictures credits:
(1) V55 by Popescu / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(2) ET21-70 (CTL Logistics) + SM31-025 (Sp. k. TORO) by Chris / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(3) 230 045 CD Prerov by Petr Štefek / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(4) 211 049-2 Deutsche Reichsbahn DR Koblenz 13.06.15 by Paul Smith / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(5) BR 132 158-7 im Bahnhof Marienfelde by Sebastian Rittau / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-4.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
(6) 95339 Neuenmarkt, Germany by simon tunstall / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(7) FORTEPAN / UVATERV - Budapest-Déli pályaudvar, 1975
(8) Katowice railway station by Janusz Jakubowski / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Major sources:
Books and magazines:
(I) "Železnice v srdci Evropy: 100 let našich drah" (Railways in the heart of Europe: 100 years of our railways)
(II) "Naše dráhy ve 20. století: pohledy do železniční historie" (Our railways in the 20th century: look into railway history)
(III) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in architecture through the eyes of the witnesses)
TV and video:
(IV) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(V) Recent TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Browsing Google Maps and Streetview
(VII) Museum visits, attending historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com or fortepan.com
(IX) Various online articles after searching the railway companies (DR etc.) and individual locomotives and their histories
#citiesskylines #altengrad
