Here are some things that should be done, dont say it using coal is small, thats how some Civilizations ran out of Coal!

*So dont say this is too smallscale*

*So dont say this is too smallscale*
*Stays silent* ;)
Seriously if you add everything we will have Civ4 like Sims where you can enter each and every house....

Seriously, anything that reduces the power of rails is good. Every feature which make you think before you rail every single tile you can is good.

^ thats good thinking.... but I don't like the method. I was against this "resources" idea in Civ 3 in the first place.