Transportation

Horseback and wagon are the two most popular forms of transportation in Bahlmorea. People living inside cities don't often require horses or wagons unless goods are being moved. The third is train, but it's mostly reserved for those who can afford the expensive tickets. Not everyone is let on the train, especially poor, unsightly or suspicious characters like a raider, mercenary, peasants, and/or anyone who has weapons out and looks like a "savage".

Trains are used to transport people, animals, food, and precious materials like lumber, coal, steel, iron, etc. Tickets are expensive, rouding at around 10 gold coins each and some lucky middle class are the lowest who can afford it. The trains are reserved for mostly middle upper to upper class to use.

Outside fo the cities are a different matter. In the cities, horseback riding is seen as just a recreation the wealthy take part in, but in the countryside, people depend on horses for their livelihood. Merchants, snake oil salesmen, traders, and traveling actors and playwrights use horse pulled wagons to transport their goods about. The rich themselves either use elegant horse drawn carriages or train, rarely do they travel on foot like the rest of the population. In the southern region, it's considered the same. Since there are is no train system in the south, people either ride camels, horses, sometimes striped horses (zebras), horse drawn carriages or wagons.

Cars have not yet been invented although there are rumors that only the highest upper echelon of the city of Sidon own wagons made of iron that move on their own.

Travel Distances Examples
I'm not skilled at math these are just rough estimates.
 * Sidon to Fornwood (the edge) = 6 hours by horse, 1 day by foot


 * Sidon to Statton = 5 days by horse, 8 days by foot, 1 day by train


 * Sidon to Maschev Colonies = 16 days by foot, 11 by horse (rugged terrain), 2 days by train


 * Sidon to Sol Colonies = 10 days by foot, 8 days by horse, 2 days by train, 3 days by boat


 * Sidon to Antioch = 30 days by foot, 20 by horse (rugged terrain), 14 days by boat


 * Sidon to Land of Ice = 50 days by foot, 35 days by horse