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What could help the passenger line int Portland or other cities with the same trains station placement (outside of the city) is too make a bus terminal were all lines are going to and make a bus express shuttle to the train station. It could help money and efficiency some times

There's an "Early U.S. Skeleton Log Car" mod that looks real good with the geared locos.

LETSSS GOOO ONE FULL HOUR ❤❤

What you could have done is to let the rail to the iron mine but make it has been under construction

Nice can’t wait for more 👍

The part where you were working on the forest ( pretty damn good build btw ) and sawmill makes we wish we got a huge logging truck like the Pacific P16 as either a mod or in the base game/ ( Honestly one of my problems with this game is the lack of older larger trucks )

Enjoying the series keep up the good work 👍

Do no streamers play without having to be in sandbox mode anymore?.

I love your detailing! I am looking forward to tryiing it

Love this map! Is it possible to get the seed?

Love the detailing episodes 😊.

Another option for the ore is to truck it down the plateau and then put in on a train to the steel mill

You could try having the train on the ore line do a loop around the smaller plateau to make it shorter

I know it's a lot of work, but sure would be nice if you could put out a little more content each week. You're becoming the one I look for to every week.

when you get to the 2000s i would recomend a Iore or some large electric locomotive for the ore line

13:36 you can change the street era from old to new to make the roads fit better

Love the series! Why didnt Pittsburgh get a counter clockwise bus route? Also, you said yourself how much speed affects passenger numbers. Instead of adding cars and slowing the trains down, I think every passenger line needs a second train. I guarantee that smaller, faster passenger trains will increase frequency and actually make you more money!

I tried this map, but its a bit laggy for me (laptop, RTX 3070, AMD 5800 CPU, 32G RAM). Is there a particular mod that would help this the most (like a render or extra assets?). Otherwise, I may split this into for large maps... I just love this map/landscape.. One of the best I've seen.

It looks like Pittsburgh added a couple of roads across the rivers. You can see them at 18:19, and converted a small portion of street as well. Not seeing buildings yet.

Great video as always mate, I'm excited to see how it's going to develop over time :)

Great episode as always. Really keen to see those passenger lines growing, and then unifying lines where possible - as soon as you connect to Houston, you can do it straightaway, just need to ensure all consists are the same.

Question: do you follow any rules when it comes to adding industries or moving industries? You ask where are some potential production chains... but my thought is can just just make one? Or do you have your own rules as to where you will build or move industries? I'd love in TF3 to have some limitations or strategy for adding industries... not just random generation by the algorithm

I would take ownership of roads to prevent building off of them when you don't want.

I like it when we work with the land shape that we have... farms don't have to be flat. Rolling hills and the occasional steep incline that can't be farmed is cool, just like queueing is qool

love the map and thought process and city count (although maybe I'd put just a few more). I really want to get into the extended industry mods, but there are too many and all have problems... not to mention maybe go a little too far.

These have such a City Planner Plays vibe to them. Very high quality videos. I just started playing the game and I had no idea this level of depth was really possible. I love the truck stations you are using!

I wish you showed doing the decor

this let me think about mr Craps from Spongebob! MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. I think im also a bit adictet to TF2 😁 keep it up and till the next one :D

I haven't started using mods yet, this looks awesome 😮. I'm really not creative or don't have the abilities yet. I want to create a cool cool-looking railway system that uses unique landscapes elevators, tunnels, and multiple lines diverging to a single station. I can do that with vanilla but I'm still in training 😅, but then in the future, I'll be able to incorporate mods to make it as beautiful as this 😊.

I know I've been commenting a lot, but I have one more thing 😅 There's another formula I like to use with the rate formula, but it's in the metric system Here's the formula converted to the Imperial system p = horsepower s = miles per hour l = locomotive weight w = individual wagon weight n = number of wagons a locomotive can comfortably pull n = ( ( ( 13 x p ) / s ) - l ) / w If you want to know how that converts the number of items, just multiply the result by the capacity of the wagons you are using :)

I have quite a few suggestions for potential lines, but first, I want to suggest renaming Santa Rosa to Roswell, just so you know what I will be referring to. The super long bridge on the Roswell side of iron island between Lincoln - Roswell needs to be replaced by one that spans over the much shorter segment nearby. I don’t think the maintenance cost is doing you any favors while you’re still financially struggling in the game. It’s ok to do sharp turns, especially this early in the game, and the sharp turn that might be needed to connect back into the Roswell tools factory is fine even in the late game because the train is already slowing down for the stop. Once you’ve shortened Iron Island bridge, it should make double tracking both of them significantly cheaper. This will make a passenger service between Lincoln and Roswell easier. The tricky part will be to finding a viable train route from the sawmill station into Lincoln proper. You could possibly branch off the mainline as soon as you exit the Iron Island bridge if you need to gain height as quickly as possible. A railway through those hills might be tricky, but it should be doable if you take measurements and pre grade the area. After making a train station in Lincoln, you should make a passenger service to Tacoma. For Lincoln - Tacoma, just go around the river. It might be a little slower, but there’s no road connections between the two towns, so the sims will still use the train line even into the late game. For the connection from Pittsburgh - Allentown, I think you were already intending to do this, but don’t cross the river to get into Pittsburgh. I don’t think it will be worth the demolition and bridge construction costs. Just use a tramline to connect into Pittsburgh proper. You should make the station at a 45 degree angle so you can connect to Allentown and upwards to Lincoln with the same station, use the leftover triangular space for a little park and tram stop. I also recommend crossing the river above the plastic factory by Allentown instead of below. It’s slightly narrower, it will make a 90 degree angle bridge easier, and irl bridges are usually harder to construct at the mouths of rivers. For my last passenger line suggestion, I think an intersection just before the Iron Island bridge will allow you to make a service from Lincoln - Pittsburgh (or Roswell - Pittsburgh ). Since you only crossed one river, you can take advantage of the super narrow straight between the iron and coal mines by Roswell, just try to keep the gradients at 1-2% for the up and down. I think a good fuel supply chain could give you a healthy amount of revenue. First, you’re gonna wanna build a port by the crude well by the Lincoln - Roswell mainline. Ship the crude to the Roswell fuel refinery, that tanker will return with fuel. Then ship that crude to the Oil refinery to your left (assuming Lincoln is left and Roswell is right). Create a circular railway to shunt the crude from the port to the refinery, going around the lake. The tanker should return with oil. Assuming you have found a viable rail line to Lincoln, create a station by the crude well and connect it to that rail line so it can deliver the fuel into Lincoln. Once the oil refinery upgrades, you can make a kind semicircle railway that will supply additional crude to the refinery and loop back around. You can also take advantage of this loop shape to add a station by the forest in the area. Use a train to shunt logs to the port and then loop back around. You could either have one train line do all of this or have multiple with their own tracks. It might be a mini headache to sort out, but the end result should be a cute little model railway. Ship the logs from the port to another port by the Roswell tools factory. The trains that are delivering planks will return with logs and it will take some pressure off of your truck line. Lastly, I recommend building another port by the wheat field by the crude well by the Lincoln - Roswell mainline. Ship some wheat down to the Pittsburgh bakery, drop off bread at the crude well port, then repeat the cycle at the wheat field port. I also recommend using the rate formula to calculate how many boxcars you should add to the trainline that is already delivering fuel to Lincoln. You may need to rearrange a few ship lines once you try to supply goods and machines, but the fuel supply chain should be a good money maker in the medium term. Most if not all of the land based infrastructure should be fine even if you use the oil refinery to supply the plastic factory down the line. Ship lines are generally easy to rearrange if you need to. I hope this has helped and I’m excited to see where you take this series in the future ☺

Port fencing and boom gates... for 1876??? LOL

It would be cool to see some small trains helping out on small branches. Narrow guage railways typically followed wherever resouce extraction happened in the 19th century For steep segments, Shay locomotives became popular around the 1880s. They typically served at logging and mining operations, so running empty on the return would be fairly accurate. Because they literally had gears that connected to the rail itself, they could climb anywhere from a 5-9% gradient! If you're having any trouble finding a custom geared locomotive from the steam workshop, the Baldwin class 56 and the BR 89 preuss kinda look like one :)

Question:... why don't you replace all the horse carts with a shunting train on that one line that is packed with horses? I don't know but wouldn't it clean up the line and move more cargo faster?

We could like start feeding more items to the cities what are getting served by the main train line so you could get more people going on the train Also keep up the good efforts on making these videos:)

I like to build my city streets super close to rivers and then block auto building with fence assets. It gives a more realistic waterfront to cities Its also good for quartering off space for projects, or keeping buildings away from busy train tracks :)

For the tunnel under portland, you may want to consider turning the station into an elevated one instead Irl, exposed tunnels nearby a river may come with flood risks. You need about 5-6 elevation ticks in order to construct a tunnel while you could get away with a bridge with only 2 if you know how to fanagle it Generally the game only allows you to construct a bridge after 4 ticks, but if you dig a deep hole in front of where you want to start your bridge, then connect some track between two elevated points, it tricks the game into giving you a low hanging bridge If you're using the vanilla white iron bridge, you only need about 7 meters of height difference if you wanna fit trams underneath, and since you have anarchy, you could probably fit busses and trucks underneath for only *5 meters*. The slimmer the bridge the better If you have any difficulty finding elevated stations that are exactly 5 or 7 meters tall, you can build one by making a mini plateau with the terraforming tool and then just plopping a station on the height. You can then use the side entrance on stations paired with the small oneway city street to act as a ramp. If you create a stub where the side entrance is and then connect the oneway street down to the ground level street, it will give you a slightly steeper slope than if you just connected it with only the tendrels Im sure you could work some magic with your detailing to make it look very convincing. Maybe a slim invisible street with stairway assests over it so the sims look like they're climbing up :) An elevated section would save a fortune on construction costs, put less gradient change on trains, and it would even help them slow down when entering from both sides :D

If you can, you may want to to cross rivers at their narrowest point and at a perpendicular angle In real life, pillars in the middle of a river can be a nightmare to construct, especially in the 1800s

When I'm making a line, I like to go into contour mode and pre flatten where I want the tracks to go. If the area is particularly hilly, I like to measure the height of where I want the train stations to go and then build around steadily going up or down while maintaining a 1% gradient

I know I'm like 3 weeks late, but I actually have a formula to determine the rate you are shipping! :D To determine the rate, you must multiply the number of train cars times the capacity of those cars Then, you must divide that number, or "n • c " by the frequency of your train Finally, you must multiply that number by the constant 12, and you have your rate Solve for r can be expressed as: (nc/f) 12 = r I would strongly recommend you set a target rate for an item and then determine how many cars will be needed instead with the following formula though: To determine the number of cars required you must select a desired rate Divide the rate by 12 Multiply the quotient by the frequency of the train Then divide the product by the capacity of your desired cars Rate --> cars can be expressed as: ( (r/12) f ) / c = n If you wanted to ship planks at a rate of 400, you would need about 72 flatbed cars, assuming the speed stays the same. This is *insanely* useful for aggregate trains and I abuse the heck out of it lol

This is the best TF2 series on YT:) love your work

back to me whenever you get a chance. Thank you very much keep up the good work on transport favor 2

could you please help me on some thing how do you unload cars and unhook them?

I like the detailing you do most.

How do you get the assets for detailing to snap in and line up so good?

This is really good quality for only 1k

Thanks for making this, although Hushey can be helpful, the short videos aren't just effective for beginners like me I can say 😅. The music(reminds me of the Farmville app background) with your voice does have ASMR qualities, it's interesting being relaxed while learning.

What is the Global Upgrade in blue?

I suggest small cheap rail stations closer to the city centres to boost early ridership. While the trains are quite fast, getting to and from the stations on the slow local horse bus service is adding much time to door-to-door journeys. The small stations can be abandoned later as cities expand or remain in place just to host a local shuttle service into town from the bigger stations you already constructed further out. I typically use a small 1-track dead-end terminal to start with as they can be tucked in very close to maximum catchment density with minimal demolition.

A ferry from SLC to near the Food Processing factory then onto rail would have saved alot of money.