BACKUP your road.pcx and railroad.pcx files before they are overwritten.

I've added some decorations to the roads.pcx, so every once awhile, you see a building or tower on the road to alleviate the boringness of seeing roads everywhere.

The ugly monotonous railroad network is now replaced by the city sprawl graphic.  I copy and paste the buildings from civ3 and put them over the railroads, to simulate the urbanization of modern time.  Overtime as railroads get build everywhere, urban areas pops up, covering the globe.  Personally, I think it looks better than just the plain old railroads.

Oh, one last thing, I noticed that AI workers will relentlessly put up railroads at every single square possible.  They'll even come over to your empire to put up roads.  My suggestion to preventing this is, set all worker action to twice the rate it takes.  Also, remove all road commerce bonuses from tiles you don't want.  Like mountains, forests, tundras, deserts.  That will help a bit, since it'll make them a last priority for ai to build roads there.  This way, you won't see urban areas popping up on mountains, tundras, deserts, etc...  But, a huge AI empire with lots workers, will still merciless put rails at every single square possible.  Nothing can be done about that...

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-Feel free to put the zip up in your site or include them in your own mod.  No need to ask for my permission.
..by BlueO
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