There's a cut that goes up the east side of the valley to the iron mine if you want to follow it. I started at the iron mine since it was easier to see where to go. Fun series!

I'm so happy that this dude is committed with making this game actually look beautiful. It's relaxing watching him play. I'm so invested in this series. Thank you kAN Gaming for making these awesome videos, keep up the great work. :)

when railroads began replacing their old wooden bridges, in places where they could, they would create large land fills. Instead of building a bridge because of the cost. You can see them where old lines used to be or on google earth.

It was nice to see you being smart, and not laying mile long spans of bridge like a certain couple of people. It's kind of shocking to see how steep gradients need to be in this game. 2% is considered STEEP on real world railways. You probably wouldn't see 3 or 4 % on spans longer than a couple hundred meters, and certainly never on a mainline. and it kind of baffles me how powerful that little 0-4-0 is. I get that it's the starter engine, but jeez, that thing can move!

if you want to make easy money in Trains Online, build a firewood depot at the logging camp, with the "loading" side facing the track; you get paid for delivering logs and cordwood to a firewood depot, even if it's full! I consider it a "Spiffing-Brit-level" exploit.

your track laying is on point

yessss need more trains this game is so peaceful.

*_Steps to take when kAN drops a vid_* _1._ : Stop *whatever* you‘re doing upon getting the notification. _2._ : Open your KZfaq-App or browser of choice, *_like_* the video and wtite a *_comment_* ! _3._ : Get some *Popcorn* and enjoy the video;) PS: love you kAN

I’m so glad you hate the giant roadbeds as much as I do and do your best to avoid them. Every other KZfaqr I’ve seen playing this game builds giant mounds without a second thought and it’s infuriating.

Just saw thing and it brightens my day I love watching you play this game it’s relaxing

We actually have a lot of those large elevation sides where I live. They have ditches on both sides of the train tracks in my area. (Texas)

dude i literally built today a massive shuntyard with your old technique and youre telling me this super fast method now

I think it’d be cool if there was a feature to be able to modify the terrain slightly, for example where you had to do that s-bend, in real life they probably would have carved out that slight bit to make it straight.

There’s elevated railways like that in Florida. All over the panhandle I remember seeing tracks like that

I love how all the factory owners are like" Yeah, lets build in the middle of nowhere, someone will build a railway here eventually" The perfect way to start a company, no way for employees to get there and no way to sell your products! Edit:HOLY CRAP THATS A LOT OF LIKES!!

when you're ready to hook up the mines, actually walk to them and scout how to leave the mine area build from them towards your already built tracks there are some 'natural' paths you can take with gentle grades and awesome scenery

The first time I ever saw this game being played was one of your videos. Then I started going and looking for other people playing it, cuz it's fun to watch. But I think you spoiled me with your nice looking tracks, because I get aggravated at the other KZfaqrs. And this video just takes the cake. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

once you get a track laid down that you're happy with, you can go back and delete the groundwork and then replace it using the snapping feature to make really clean, aligned groundwork or put bridges at certain points 👌

I've been waiting for railroads online vid Thank you for great content keep up the good work and then one day you'll reach 1 million subs

I cannot begin to say how much I am enjoying this series with Railroads Online, not only was I able to figure out who you are and your content but the game itself even in a early access is just fantastic to see and play. Granted that there are a few complications here or there but it dosen't mean things cannot be fixed or altered, maybe the developer might add a crossing for example to help show the parallel of lines and their spacing, maybe add a tractor as a different way to load up certain cargo (not trying to make it sound like farming simulator) that can make profit and expand locations on the map. The time and effort as well as the creativity you and your friend put into this really let's us all know how much you want this to be as realistic and fun as possible, testing other locomotives out and giving each a purpose, making alternative ways to properly place track perfectly straight, avoiding to use things like being able to rerail locomotive without the use of cranes or breakdown trains. Seeing this is honestly a great way to make my day and brainstorm ideas as well as thoughts of "what would" or "what if" to help make your railroad truly come to life. Your creativity is endless and however you want to run your railway is fine because it's yours to own and have fun with, I just figured I would come out and say to you how appreciative I am for this series, meeting you, and praising the game for what all haft to offer. Hopefully you too are enjoying this and hope to see what other creative ideas you have in the future for us, enjoy yourself and have a good day.

Been a minute since KZfaq actually recommended something good. I just binge watched all these train videos lol. Weather and day/night cycles would change this game dramatically. This with snow would look sick.

I found the way past the placement bug when in "Alt Straight/Curve" mode: It shouldn't make a difference but the game seems to want the pointer centered between the two rails when you click. If it's off too far to the left or right the game ignores your mouse click. In central Virginia, the Norfolk and Western RR used large embankments of ballast stone to smooth out the foot hills. Bridges are expensive to build and maintain, while the ballast for most railroads is mined locally and relatively cheep. My brother and I used to walk the tracks to squirrel hunt. In places the road bed was 20 to 30 feet above the forest floor which put you eye level with the squirrels in the tops of the trees. It's not as picturesque as a trestle bridge, but for small railroads it's more cost effective. By-the-way, road grades are classified in percent rather than degrees. A 1% grade is 3.6° or roughly 1 foot rise in 100 feet. 3% is 10.8° { n percent/100 * 360 = angle in degrees } [EDIT: divide the result by 4. 3.6 / 4 = 0.9 = a 1% grade = 0.9°]

I'm jealous of your route and your smooth angles, mine works and it's fun to traverse, but yours looks really clean. I'll be interested to see how you make your yard, and one thing I'll tell you, on the side with the ore and the cord wood, it's possible to make that a single through line, even though it ends up with the docking stations on opposite sides of the rail. You just need to bring up your rail height to be above that small pile of ore. You are able to unload the ore car on the back side just fine, it's how I ran my line. I've not seen anybody else do this, instead they either make a sharp jag in the track, or run two lanes and back in/out.

i would want to see you play this game with everyone (kosmo, dapper, scrapman, you, moonbo, camodo, johnbane, you brother and i mean everyone) but that’d be way to laggy

Degrees and Percentages don't line up. 1 percent means that for every 100 units of length you gain 1 unit of length in altitude. You can calculate the slope in degrees like this: Slope in degrees = arctan(x), where x is the Percentage converted to a decimal number (e.g. 3% = 0.03) arctan(0.03) = 1.72°

I have been consistently checking for more episodes I absolutely love it, I also love the longer videos for this game 😌

just bought it finally! excited

There as a predetermined path that's is just wide enough to take you all the way to the Iron mine. If you start the tracks at the Iron mine first it is way easier to see the path. Have to make a few bridges but for the most part

Gotta love that regular chill content

Percent and degree are not interchangeable. Percent is the rise over the run, and degrees is, well, degrees. So a 45⁰ slope is a 100% slope. Loving this series :)

since you said about having your train run while you do switching, i thought i'd share a little info if you didn't know already. when you deliver logs to the saw mill, if you move your train slow enough in third person, you can get out and unload the cars while the train is moving. great job with building the bridge and laying the track to the smelter. and if you think the views are great now, wait till you see the waterfall (i haven't made it there yet, only saw it in other videos). can't wait to see the next video, keep up with the great work!

I live in Florida and sometimes there's parts of the track where the rail beds are very very high.

Hell yea Kan love your stuff keep doin what your doin :)

I for the life of me cannot get this line where I need it. But i am not the quitting type, I will make it work. Love the videos, great series!

I appreciate that you take the time to do things right

Easiest way I found to build the line to the iron mine was to start at the mine and work back

Such a beautifully scenic game to watch!

finally, i was waiting for this for so long

I'm going to be honist with you, I benched every EP up til now and I was checking your channel every day for you to do another vid on this. I need it

That's a beautiful route! Great job Kan!

This line you made... Its beautiful! Keep up the awesome work man!

kAN, one tip for getting to the iron mine… in the valley on the right side there is a premade path for your foundations so making it to the mine is easy peasy lemon squeezy

The stone turn around by the smelter, the 20° turn, would look so great with a foot path or hiking trail tunnel through the middle.

I loved this video, I enjoyed it so much! As a fellow train lover this series is so awesome. I can't wait for the iron ore mine track video and the bigger train running, thank you so much for making these keep it up :D

Dude I love this series keep up the good work

Love this series

The effort put into the game and videos really pay off. It's absolutely beautiful. Nice Job kAN.

That 0-4-0 is mighty impressive. Surprised it that much better than the 4-4-0

Wood bridges can be placed deeper in valleys to build other things on - Wood bridges by far let you pull out the longest single length at a time of any groundwork. Steel bridges being the shortest.

Watching u place these tracks is so satisfying to watch, keep it up!

Kan: this 30* turn is a little tight Me sweating with my 45* turn: Haha yes very tight

Love the vids i discovered you through the first vid of this series and love it already subbed

Sidehilling along a countour of the slope like you're doing at 24:35 is pretty much how I do all my rails these days (but with bridges or stone like you're saying). Makes it so that it's just as easy to build on a mountain slop as building in the flat plains imo. In fact, since the cost of building the stone foundations or even bridges isn't factored into the game yet, I just go straight over the mountains for most of my tracks now lol. Very scenic. Not very cheap irl.

those large levees with rails set on top are actually a very common occurrence in the American Midwest. miles upon miles of track with a ton of dips and few trees around means just gathering and compacting good sediment from the surrounding area is just much more feasible

Ayo Kan, I honestly subscribed to you bc of this series. I love it so much!

I wish you'd make more episodes with dapper. The synergy between you two makes your videos a great antidepressing watch.

Stumbled across your video and even though I had no idea what the game was, you made it a pleasant viewing experience, albeit a bit slow at times (but perfect for multi-tasking) would love to watch your experience taking track to the Iron Mine!

I like the train videos. I know it takes a lot of time and patience, but i love your process amd attention tp detail. Lets get mpre Dapper in here!

I just love this channel and watching just makes my day.

Yep kan is definitely the best who's playing this.. Ty sir for making it realistic.. Like who tf would put a 5 km long bridge across a whole valley (other youtubers do) but u man.. If i were playing i couldn't have done any better.. All on point. I suggest using the Y junctions more often Like from sawmil u can draw a line heading east to halfway of map then do a Y headed both ways to iron ore and smelter.. With that you'd have faster rout and more connections for future

Even the mountains in Alberta and BC have huge ballast pile foundations like that on the railroads

In my home village there was a small section of track that crossed a creek, maybe 2m wide. The track just kind of floated over, not supported by anything but the rail itself, and was bolted down into a concrete block on each side. When I was little, only this section still existed, but it was removed to build a footbridge some years ago.

This series is awesome, beautiful gameplay, thanks Kan

awesome mountain pass! Soon your gonna have to get lots of conductors to run your little empire

you should add a rail splitter on each loop for every pick up and drop off point, add it right before the turn off the loop after picking up things so that way you can choose either to go around in a circle or go back to base

Hello, kAN Concerning the iron mine route, what you can do is make a track that goes from the fright depo to the iron mine and it will be much easier to make and it will be already connected to the smelter and this will save you a lot of time i believe. Btw i love your series it is so relaxing.

The amount of dedication, work and effort put in 1 video💯

Love this series; keep it up!

I hope they add signs. Would be nice to be able to place a sign saying "Switch Ahead" or "Left to Sawmill"

Recently saw this channel and series. I like it! New Sub! They need to ad a bank angle setting to the curve.

You brought Betsy across a really scenic route.

I love this series keep it up!

Lol Duluth, Minnesota USA, I had ones bigger than that up the street from me, and yeah, a bit dangerous to. Fall off a 4 foot gravel foundation to another 4 feet into the ditch and you want to minimize them as well.

17:12 I've noticed this bug too, only with the wooden plank track pieces though, not with the standard track

This is my favorite series you make

I really like this series I hope to see more!

Most railways around the world use large embankments like that, it's the only way to get through terrain. You really want to keep any gradient to an absolute minimum, and the curves as large radius as you can fit. Then you'll be able to run longer trains at higher speed.

There are some crazy elevated places through canada. Around my home in nova scotia, there are some that are a couple stories tall.

They need to add a feature where you can draw a line on the map and it appears on the ground so you can follow it. That way you can get a rough estimate of the route you want to take.

Nice Videos kan! i’m in a new account but been watching for years. Keep up the good work!

Don't stop playing this is a blast to watch

Awesome Job Big Help Thank You

Can’t wait for next episode

Hey. love the videos. A couple of pointers from a guy who's learnt about US steam. Porter - this is a short line switching engine. The specs are WAAY too strong. But I get it - it makes early levels easier. In real life (no not necessarily the game physics) Porter - 0-2% grades. 1-6 loaded freight cars. Slow (little wheels). Weak (small boiler and pistons) Climax - 0-4% grades. 1-10 loaded freight cars. Slow (geared). Strong (big boiler and 2 big pistons) Shay - 0-6% grades. 1-12 loaded freight cards. Slow (lower geared). V Strong (big boiler, 3 big pistons) Eureka - 0-1% grades. Made for flat runs over the US prairies with 1-3 passenger cars or 1-3 freight cars. Fast. Weak. So that's why Eureka is at the end of the tech tree list - it's for long runs later in the game. Based on your inability to find a 2% path to the mine I think you're going about it the wrong way. Your plan of 3% for lots of miles dragging the freight cars out isn't going to work. (except the Porter being out of whack). You're also running the track far too straight. In the hills it's slow driving with a lot of twisting track hugging the hillside to keep the grade as shallow as possible even if it adds a lot of distance. The general surveying rule of where you go is equal cut to fill. i.e. when you cut into the hillside right next to it you push it to build up the drops. Then you use trestles often. If it were me I'd slog out getting some more logs and timber sold to buy a climax (which is a good intermediate between rod engines and geared engines). Then run the climax to the mine at 4-5%. I'm looking forward to the next video!

Great video! And keep these elevations. In real life there are loads of them, and i even saw bigger ones in the Czech Republic.

yes. MORE. MORE! CONTENT IT FUELS ME!

Your musings regarding dealing with the steel trestle Elgin Illinois has a single track bridge over the Fox River that was built by the Milwaukee Road around 1905 and until they replaced the bridge with a new double track bridge a few years ago your exact solution was what they did with the double track switching down to a single track for the bridge right before and after.

If you make the track (for the iron mine) go directly from your smelter underneath your big metal bridge then you will already be nice and low and can snake through the bottom of the valley. Plus that'll be cool having a track go underneath a bridge you already made. Just a friendly suggestion, loving this game and your videos.

Bro thank you for making a 46 minute video you absolute legend.

Imagine having like 10 people in the game and getting a bunch of trains going around at the same time

Just a small-town girl Livin' in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin' anywhere Just a city boy Born and raised in South Detroit He took the midnight train goin' anywhere A singer in a smokey room The smell of wine and cheap perfume For a smile they can share the night It goes on and on, and on, and on Strangers waiting Up and down the boulevard Their shadows searching in the night Streetlights people Livin' just to find emotion Hidin' somewhere in the night Workin' hard to get my fill Everybody wants a thrill Payin' anything to roll the dice just one more time Some will win, some will lose Some were born to sing the blues Oh, the movie never ends It goes on and on, and on, and on Strangers waiting Up and down the boulevard Their shadows searching in the night Streetlights people Livin' just to find emotion Hidin' somewhere in the night Don't stop believin' Hold on to that feelin' Streetlight people Don't stop believin' Hold on Streetlight people Don't stop believin' Hold on to that feelin' Streetlight people

I'm waiting for your next route :)

This series is great

Love these

Uk has a lot of the "Elevated pieces", they're called embankments. And were done first by canal boats, the roots of which many trainlines follow

Hey kan for future improvements to the track you should have little switch offs that reconnect afterwards to act as mini shunt lines and for fuel along areas far from the depot.

Love the stuff

Keep it going

cant wait till dapper see this

awesome.... I hope they add more bridge types like cable or truss