if you can sell trains/carts in the game sell eurika or if you can't save up for better engine.

Yes pls keep this game on the channel

At 25:00 you need to use less reverser so that you get lots of torque but its harms the engine efficiency

What time?

@@ChaosDeere007 not necessarily. The train buckles when pushing which creates a wee bit of friction. Braking works best when pushing, however. You will always find in well designed trains, the engine in the front and the brakes at the back!

By the way are there more customization options in the works?

You should try modeling the “Big Boy”, I feel like it could be a good train to add to the game.

As a developer can you please remove the stupidly high wheel slip on the Heisler Locomotive?

I think the game has been awesome so far!

Eurekas were more of a passenger locomotive than a freight locomotive, larger drive wheels equals more speed and smoother rides for the passengers.

I agree with this

I’m hoping for this

I’m hoping for this too.

that would be amazing to watch

having like 5+ trains going about the map, making tracks meant for the places super far like express lanes so you can have 2-3 trains next to each other. would be super cool to see

That would be great!

Do they have a social media presence?

@@hawkerhellfire9152 I heard that they (the devs) are most active on their discord server

even though the eureka is more suited to high speeds than pulling power, you'd think it'd still be more powerful than the porter.

That’s what I thought

yep that's how gear ratios work

Technically the “motorized” wheels are called driving wheels on steam locos, I don’t know about diesels though

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actually, it is more like half that and half yard workers' health and safety concerns(using pins in a real yard with equipment that age means that it is easy to loose body parts)

Another reason is that it was very easy to lose a finger to those things.

I do like that the game includes them though they are mostly forgotten due to them being replaced at the turn of the century.

thank you for saying the truth. a lot of people seem to be assuming they’re navigational lights, like those seen on ships & airplanes.

What do you mean by "train is split into sections"?

@@Pyrrhist If there was too much freight or too many passengers for one train, the railroad would get a second or third train for the remaining freight or passengers. Each train would be called a section, though they would all be considered one “train” on the timetable. Each section would put up green classification lights on their last car, except the last which had red lights. This was important to prevent accidents when running trains using only timetables. For instance, if a west-bound train on a single-track route was on a siding waiting for an east-bound train to pass, they could not leave the siding until they saw the red lights of the last section go by, or they’d risk a head-on collision. (I’m simplifying greatly, I’m sure.)

Yeah that's what I thought too, or straight up two Eureka, might give it the extra pulling power it needs

@@Thorzix but the eureka doesn’t have a front coupler, I don’t think Edit it does

@@caradog1081 even if it didn't you could couple one at the back and push the train going in reverse while another pulls, on long flat and straight road it'd probably do well

@@Thorzix your right

This would work, ik I'm months late but you're wasting weight that could be pulled, is the extra Loss in pulling capacity over time might diminish any gains in effeciency due to better acceleration

you’re also not supposed to have two colors at the same time ;)

So it's not like in aerospace and nautical with red as the port side and green as starboard?

@@2countries1god it is not like in aerospace and nautical with red as the port side and green as starboard

@@2countries1god why would trains need those lol

Fun fact I live where the real life eureka is kept, Carson City rail road museum. Occasionally they still take it out to give train rides

@@goose_eater4342 ohh Awesome

but i’m pretty sure the devs said they are gonna nerf the porter bc of it being so op

The Eureka could haul potentially more than the Porter, despite having a nominally lower tractive effort, due to the fact it is twice as heavy as the Porter. Can’t put that tractive effort to use if you don’t have enough weight to put the TE down to the rail Edit Dec. 2021: Porter tractive effort will be lowered to 2,916 lbs.

@@armagonarmagon3980 I mean we saw, in the pull-off contest, that the eureka had wheel slip, so that does not appear to be the case.

@@armagonarmagon3980 But the Eureka has a bunch of its weight on the leading truck, so that affects potential TE. That's a big advantage of the geared locomotives.

Was about to say that. The generator is only a turbine with a electric generator on it for making electricity. It has nothing to do with the power of te locomotive

I was so confused by Kan's generator comments, I might not no much about trains but I've got a good understanding of engines, electricity, and pneumatic/hydraulics and he made me think I was missing something. Also I always thought of the reverser like a counter intuitive gear lever. 100% being low gear and 1% being high gear. (It's how I played MSTS in the early aughts.)

Yeah, his friend was probably thinking of either a blower or a damper. The blower is a steam jet used to increase draft over the fire when starting a locomotive. The damper is a vent in the bottom of the firebox which forces more air through it. The higher the speed of the train the more air gets forced through the damper. How open or closed the damper is can be controlled by the driver.

I wonder why they felt a difference in power then?

Yeah because of something very magic called gear ratios

I was thinking the same.

Yee more engines is always better

A 4-6-2 is called a pacific not a prairie a 2-6-2 is a prairie

No, the game is simplified. Either full forward or reverse, and the regulator is the only controll that changes speed, power and water consumption. Not how a real steam engine works, but we have to draw the line somewhere and I think this is a great way to keep a great simulator and a not too hard to understand for new people.

yea but the small engine wouldnt have the weight to be able to put the torque down. It would spin.

@majorPhysics, actually she might actually be able to. All of her weight directly is supported by the four drive wheels. The larger engine, has her weight split between four drive wheels and four guide wheels. Less weight directly on the drive wheels. And smaller wheels equal better torque. Larger drive wheels, mean better speed, but less pulling power.

@@robertferrick463 yeah the big boy and challenger from union pacific are real life proof your statement is wrong, nice try tho. Not enough weight on the drive wheels means wheel slip end of discussion.

@@ifyourmarriedyourasimpanda7440 You are comparing apples to oranges. The Big Boy (4-8-8-4) and the Challenger (4-6-6-4) have the advantages of 60-70 years of technological advancements, 3-4 times the number of drivers, much heavier with the majority of their weight on their drivers (locomotive without tender weight is about 770,000 lbs), higher boiler pressure with larger pistons, and better fuel. Formula for approximate tractive effort is T=(((d^2)sp)/w)x0.85. d=piston diameter, s=piston stroke, p=working pressure, w=driving wheels diameter inches. Smaller diameter wheels mean higher tractive effort. Going solely on the information from the game the Porter weighs 22000 lbs, has a boiler pressure of 120, and has a tractive effort of 6,110lbf. The Eureka weighs 44100 lbs, has a boiler pressure of 120, and has a tractive effort of 5,620lbf. We don't know the piston diameter or stroke but having the same pressure, the smaller wheels of the Porter are better. Some of the weight of the Eureka is the tender. The tender makes up at least 10,000lbs leaving 34100lbs for the locomotive. If 75% of that weight manages to go to the drivers that's 25000lbs which isn't much more than the Porter's 22000lbs with smaller wheels. If the weight is split even as it should the Eureka has at most 17,000lbs on it's drivers. Porter was designed for yard work requiring high torque to pull strings of cars. The Eureka was designed for long distances and faster running. Both were optimal and used most on flat terrain. There's a reason trains then weren't long, the locomotives couldn't pull them.

@@ifyourmarriedyourasimpanda7440 Traditionally, freight locomotives did have smaller drivers than passengers locomotives. Big Boy and Challenger, were some of the largest steam locomotives ever built. Of course, their tractive effort would be insanely impressive. The example of a small 4-4-0 VS 0-4-0; and you're trying to compare that to a massive 4-8-8-4. Funny how you fail to mention the Erie Triplex, that had a 3rd set of drive wheels. She couldn't get above 20 miles an hourr. You have one opinion. I have another. Let's agree to disagree.

lbf is pound-foot. Tractive effort is the locomotive term for torque. when hauling cargo, you're right, more is better.

Oh, speeding ahead of the train to do the switches. That's an original idea. It might make slightly more sense to follow AFTER the freight train and set the switches for the return trip, though. That way you aren't under as much time pressure, and you can push the tail if you do catch up to it. You'll need to plan ahead at least 1 trip, though.

@@Pystro that’s one of the jobs an actual brakeman in the caboose of a slow-moving freight train would be tasked with doing, back in the day, but requires a bit more forethought than I’m expecting from casual players

According to the wiki, she was a mixed use train. built for a company called the Eureka and Palisade Raildoad. Became a Hollywood star briefly under Warner Brothers, eventually ending up as a museum piece.

grass is greener on the other side I guess xD

They poor tho ... Thats why they bought this cheap engine

they should have saved up more then..

On trains they were used as signal lights, red meant the end of the train, or they used green if it was stopped on a siding and it was clear to pass. White on the front is a extra train and green is a extra on the same schedule

that’s actually not true. those colored lights are classification lights, used to show the train’s purpose and situation relating to the timetable. White = “extra” train (not shown on timetable). Green = normal train with a following section. Red = back of the train.

That is not modeled in the game physics yet

This game doesn't model that feature AFAIK.

To add to what the other commenters said, you also have it quite backwards: less reverser decreases the torque of the engine by reducing its cutoff.

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She now runs at the Nevada Southern railroad museum that runs from Boulder NV to Henderson NV (just south of Vegas) I have seen her NSRM since we have family out there but I’ve not seen Eureka in Person. I saw the

(I saw the railroad she operates on but not Eureka herself)