Building a Perfect Parallel Double Track to the Iron Works! 

Long and flat? Definitely sounds like a job for the Eureka, especially when they update the game and allow it to go super fast.

38:02 - "It is the slowest or one of the slowest with the gearing but it is extremely fast!" - kAN. I loled. I assume you meant extremely strong.

Now we can move to the next step.... MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!

I just got done doing a full double main line in the southwest portion of the map. I have a 64 car train that I just run in that area. The double main extends past the freight Depot to the north and around almost to the coal mine. Just posted a video of the train going by.

What’s the possibility for running a sneaky/cheeky line from the coal mine, through the mountains to the south, ending at the iron works?

So historically the way tracks were run was different per each railroad. For example New York Central RR typically ran on the Right side, where as the Pennsylvania RR ran opposite, Left side. That would also denote how the tracks were labeled, so here in northeast Ohio, on the Double main, Track 1 is on the right & Track 2 is on the left, since this was Ex-NYC. So you can create your own operations as you see fit.

When you're making a curve for two parallel lines, you don't necessarily need to make the curves start and end at the same place unless the tracks need to be parallel on the curve for whatever reason. Just have one curve start slightly further along than the other, and they can both have the same radius. They'll get further apart towards the centre of the curve, but they'll come back to being perfectly parallel at the end.

Lucky's gonna get his own branch line! (talk about a lucky break)

hyce has allready said there would be multiple angle crossover sections, i cant wait for those

37:57 " the most powerful engine in the game technically, it is the slowest or one of the slowest with the gearing but it is extremely fast!" -kAN

Almost everywhere in North America is right hand running track. A big exception to this was the Chicago Northwestern (now Union Pacific). They ran left handed due to the positioning of their stations. Same concept on this line.

Wow the first cross piece he actually used properly

Coordinates would be useful so you can do the math easily for curve radius and stuff

Looks amazing definitely a Euraka line. I'd have you and your friends get all the raw products coal, iron, and lumber and put all the products in the shunt yard then hook eureka up to all of them and make a run to the iron works and see if it can actually pull all of it.

It would be hard, but it would be cool if you make a shortcut from the coal mine over the mountain next to the coal mine to the rifinary/things there

Intro feels good

“It’s the slowest but it’s extremely fast.” -Kan 2022

Love your videos! So fun to watch. Keep it up!

Running lines differ from place to place. The usual rule is that Trains will run on one side of the track on dual lines. When it goes in single line it differs all over. Sometimes you can only go one way, others you have a token system and block systems (thats what they are in the UK. when it comes to 3 or more lines it generally depends on the situation. It could be split into several 2 line mainlines or it can be a 4 track with 2 going one way and 2 the other usually the outer line being the slow line and the inner being the fast line. like I said it differs from place to place and sometimes even a short walking distance away the system can be different. Hope this helps.

I personally made a direct track from the sawmill to those three industries bypassing the freight depot it's really useful and saves a lot of time I think

in europe you usualy drive right, in uk or in swizerland for example left. so its up to you

kAN: Don't ask why, it just works. Me: Immediately starts singing the "It just works" song...

Have fun loading up them tools. Took about an hour for 5 full boxcars.

More trains!? Awesome :)

oooh very nice

I built a line straight to coal mine from the iron works. Requires to do two zig-zag (changing direction). On the iron works side it's 4%, but the we only go down with load. On the other side it's 3.5%. The Heisler can pull 6 cars with coal. But it saves driving 1 h around. Also you don't need that much coal.

You need to do a 50 car long train with 3 engines

I've recently started planning building my lights the yard light I was going to do a similar thing to you but instead I've decided to make a while my main line

So there is at least one railroad that Ran/Runs on the left in North America! I don't know if there is more then just one that Ran/Runs on the left, but I assume it's the only Class 1 (Big RR Co.) to run on the left. My local railroad! the Chicago & North Western System! (CNW) When they built their original line, west from Chicago they built a single track. They built stations on this single track for their commuter service trains to Chicago on the north side of the railroad tracks. Commuter service passengers usually use the stations during the inbound trips to Chicago only. So when demand was needed for a second track to support RR traffic, they built the second track on the south side, so they didn't have to rebuild their train stations. all the signal infrastructure, and track switches were built for this left hand running throughout the system. Even though Union Pacific bought the CNW in 1995 it was to expensive to change those signals, stations, and track switches so they let it be. The signals for the trains today remain still remain for left hand running in the former CNW territory!

Most railroads in North America use right hand running in multi-track situations. There were SOME American railroads that used left hand running (trying to remember, maybe the C&NW?) and there ARE some situations where there is left handed running depending on the track configuration and the situation.

@kAN Gaming Perhaps a loop line alongside the main loop at the ironworks? If you're gonna make two branches off to the other locations it would make sense not to block access to one or both lines if a train is unloading at the Ironworks.

The signature line for the Straight Line Rail Co.!

And now you knwo, why Hyce built his "rollercoaster" :D He does not need to pull the full cars over the entire map....

If you wanted to make it so that you are driving on the right side of the track, you could've used the crosspiece. It would also be at least one place on the entire map where you actually use it the way you are supposed to, and not as just a shunt yard ruler lol.

To deliver the coal you should just make a roller coaster like Hyce did but minus the extra groundwork!

this give me an idea for MM: train logging. build trains that can cut down trees, refine them, and deliver resource logs to a refinebot

idea: head on colision on a bridge, like that famous B&W movie i cant remember the name of

kAN, you have a gift..... I've just watched you make the stone wall (almost) perfect to the platform at the ironworks. I had to try like 12 or 14 times to even get close. Maybe I had a bad day or something but anyway, it was awesome to see you get it in one try basically.

1:20 actually here in Chicago, the old CNW still runs left handed!

You definetly want to buy the Climax, it can pull 24 Lumber and 24 Beams up a 5% grade :)

ok im 2:03 min in and i know that you mad it so as you sad but i haf a beter idea maik a weiy sektion befot the frait depo that makes mor sens becous wen you kom from the smelter then younet thu go thro the rait depo and you can awoud bilding a lop im a genius and im german sry wen im not so gut at reiting comens sry

Groundwork in railroads online currently changes the curve based on how long of a spline you make. That was supposed to be a 10° curve and it's probably more like 15

He should have done a 4 line rail so a double track goes to the oil refinery and a double track goes to the other place

in railroading its normal to run on the left side. (yes in the U.S. and Canada)

Hear me out, what if you speedran how fast you can cut down all the trees on the map?

A cool thing to do would be to continue the double line to the refinery and make it loop there and make the track split off where it loops now

Inbound and outbound are the tracks

WOW it really is a perfect Parallel Double Track to the Iron Works!

youned 8.5 ful wagons of lumber and 33.2 ful wagons of row iron and 100 hoper cares ful of coal

hello kan

Awsome video

Right...

the Chicago & Northwestern RR used left hand running on their double tracked areas. get a Climax and at least 2 more Class 70's for major train movements and long heavy trains. the Coal Drag and the Iron Ore Train need more cars to supply the Iron Works with material. you will need a passing siding or two on the coal route. so plan ahead for the future. the Freight Depot should be off the double track "Main Line" where through traffic can run at speed. crossovers on either end will allow trains to enter/exit the depot and access the yards and service tracks as well the Double Track should end where the route to the Iron & Coal Mines split with crossovers there and at each industry to the Iron Works. make sure there is clearance past the Iron Works for unit Oil Trains to pass by to the Refinery. 12-15 empties to both Iron & Coal mines and stage them there with a porter and a shed/water tower/cordwood. 10 cars to the Logging Camp and another set staged & loaded. 15 cars each for Lumber & Beams staged and ready to roll at the sawmill yard. 10 cars each at the smelter with Rails & Raw Iron stored ready to roll. how many friends can you round up? consider 2 per train you plan to operate. mayhaps some lucky viewers for extra trains and load/unload ops or switch manning.

Hey Kan can you get the Devs to add a stem locomotive the locomotive is a Shay is a gerd trains

Here, Madrid, Spain, some trains go left rail, even when we go right side in trafic, with underground metro. BUT overground metro, is reversed. And the Cercanias lines are allways right rail. So... ¿Each Region to each own?

2 tracks x 34.5=69 hahahahaha nice

Idea: Fill up all the train car's you have (maby buy more) and put your stronget engines together. And runn the Larget train in "RailRoads Online".

I would destroy your current freight depot layout... there will become a point in the game where you no longer need to loop at the freight depot for any reason at all... only think you'll be delivering to the Freight Depot is Oil Barrels

For a moment I go t confused is it Kan video or dapper video 🤣🤣 Just put all of the iron delivery on freight depot and make a billion mile long Eureka train depot

New vid !!!

I'm considering restarting my world to correct a lot of mistakes I made on my first run (my OCD has issues with this game). But now that I know that the dev intend to re-do track laying, I'm not sure whetever or not to wait for that update before starting again.

Iron Works does not take too much to fill it up like little I brought 3 train carts of the wood three train carts of coal three train carts of iron beams in the wood crates are almost at 99% the iron pipes are almost at 59% and I actually pulled all that there with the train that you called gutless she was bogging out a little bit here and there cuz I'm not perfectly level of perfectly straight but it made it all the way there

Isn't there the hand cart? It could be useful for work around the depo and could also possibly be useful for shunting things (I don't know, I don't have the game, but it is an idea) or for transport of yourself

Haha I just saw the derailment referenced in the Rollercoaster Video. 33% odds! Keep up the good work kan!

Hello How many more episode you need for connecting other industry and completing chain industry? You just sell every thing to freight depo for 20 episode

By the way I got my computer and I've been playing railroads online and it's pretty fun not the greatest railroad Builder you know how it is when you first start out takes practice I'm getting better I've only played it for a couple of days it's pretty fun

Kan, historically in north America alot of rail lines were left hand drive if they are double tracked, it's because when riding a horse you would normally ride on the left side because that is how most right handed people would mount from the left. We also originally drove cars on the left for that reason, I believe France was the first to start driving on the right.

If you're going to do multy train runs, I'd say buy some more of the same locomotive. Be it the Eureka or the Mogul, that way you have a real looking fleet of locomotives.

Very nice

Hey kan if you use your shunt yard you can combine the lumber train headed to the iornworks with the coal and iorn trains and iorn run a long train there and that will save you trips to and from the iornworks and make it that much more efficient because you are making one trip rather than 3

I started from the Iron Works and ran my line North to a Wye directly off the Unload platform. No turns until I need to turn back towards the Freight depot.

. Love the videos keep it up my name is cory

Would you consider using the map editor tool which Dapper uses to be cheating? Rails look good :) How long did that take in total :D

Is there a way to download your line? I bought the game from watching your videos but i have found i cant lay track to save my soul.... I think i would love to drive trains on your rail

There is no universal standard for the side trains run on. In North America it is on the Right In Europe it is a mess as per usual. UK is left running. France, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal are also left running despite cars run on the right. Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark and most other European nations are right running. In Austria most lines are build to allow left or right running but since 1909 they (very) slowly convert there left running lines to right running. But there are always exception. In the USA the former Chicago and Northwestern Railroad lines are still left running. In France most lines in the Region Grand Est (Départements Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Moselle) are right running because historically part of the region was controlled by Germany.

Hey Kan ik it's a crazy idea but could you make 2 tracks side by side and see if you could drive a train on both sets of tracks at once. Basically if you don't make them identical it will end badly

In Real Life, railway companies do not care which side their trains are on, they just care that the trains are running!

Maybe you should find out if the freight Depot is double-sided like you can put a track on the other side of the freight Depot so you don't have to do a loop see if that actually works just lay track on the other side of the freight Depot and see if Will unload a load then you don't have to make a loop

Hear me out... couldn't you have had the inbound track from the iron works connect to the otherside of the freight depot to sell product?

It only took kAN 44 episodes but he's finally setting up a track to the Ironworks.

don't try with your branch line's bc branch line's they do not try with the track on branch line's bc there going to one customers

Make a route over the mountains from the coal mine to the ironworks and refinery which passes the iron mine and connects up to it because there are some low points in the mountain range. Trust me, I've done it in game

You're using freight depot as left hand drive, that's why this new double line is also left hand drive.

If you want to do more double tracks then sure there is the sawmill but extend that to the wye for the smelter and coal/iron line or have 1 line go to the higher iron route and the other line continue down. Also, the other option with the coal mine is do what Hyce did which is cut the line over the mountain, there is a perfect cut where he went through and you just need to go down the side of the mountain from there

Build short cut from coal mine to iron work Go over mountain One spot of mountain is lower than other go from there to passing mountain And follow side hill to iron work

"It is the slowest or one of the slowest with the gearing but its extremely fast" -kan Ehm....yes

I would love to see all 3 of yall running engines

In the united states its usually the right being the main direction, but there are exceptions to it. So you should be fine left hand running.

You say you're Canadian but you're from America does this mean America wins again

if you ever need to do more parallel track, an easier way to do it is to lay the first switch, lay 6 crossovers, lay a crossover on the side of the last in the line, and hook a switch to that, that will be a little bit wider than your current set is

01:10 Why don't you have some switches go right into that 90 degree junction so you can switch sides of the route.

Have you tryed the RROx railroads online extended tool to make track yet?

Hello

Kan Gameing - can you do a video on Dubble track Switch track

If you wanted to name this section of track you could call it "Pine Valley Parallel"

In Britain we tend to stay left but we also drive on the left so maybe we run trains like that because we drive like that?

You can do some train racing on that flat track at full speed side by side

This video is unparalleled in satisfaction! Pun is very much intended

In Europe trains are left hand drive cars are left hand drive in North America trains are right hand drive cars are right hand drive

You say full reverser- then drive forwards. There is something not right here 🤔