Engineering efficient train lines is really HARD... 

Welp sorry I posted this late, I was working on the very efficient thumbnail I swear! Anyway, check out the free Train Valley World demo now: tblink.co/RCETrain

This gives me an idea: build a city in cities skylines that uses only trains for transportation.

The town names seem to be connected to railway history. Motala is a town in Sweden which had a locomotive factory back in the day. Creusot in France has an Alstom factory and high speed rail lines. Birkenhead has the Mersey railway. 🤔

the double ended train is called double fairlie, there are some at Ffestiniog railway, so if you want to see some in real life, that's the best place to see them

You should ask the game dev to implement a feature that lets you build bridges if you send proof of an engineering degree.

I used to live in Birkenhead. nice to see my hometown in a game :) also Janus (rhymes with bum-hole) "In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of doors, gates, and transitions". often depicted as having two faces, hence the double ended locomotive.

Any time you rate a bridge lower than 6, I have to compare it to the wooden one in Hydroneer that you gave a 5.9. I understand the reasoning behind the 5.9, but I have to think it was vastly overrated.

one thing I don't think I've seen IRL with train networks that I'd love to see more of is what I refer to as "diverter rails" - essentially, instead of the main line going right through a station, the station splits off from the main line and then re-merges on the other end, allowing trains that aren't going to a particular station to just go by without even going through the platform. Also allows stations to be worked on, renovated and so on without just closing that whole line. It's essentially just a single extra bit of redundancy that lets the entire system run smoother when spots undergo maintenance.

After watching this I gave it a shot and got 1:08:12 which puts me 3:12 over the time limit and just shy of 3 stars. Managed the other goals but I lost time in not starting the copper pipe train as soon as possible (I wanted to complete the copper city mission first) and forcing it and the steel goal train to share a good bit of track and 1 station meaning a few times they had to wait for each other. A very fun little puzzle game that could use a few improvements such as being able to tell a train which station platforms it should use or which path to take to get to it's destination (since the shortest might be shared by a few trains while the longer is better for a "direct" line). Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

£2000 to travel such a short distance by train? Sounds like the devs have taken inspiration from the UK railways!

Im a simple man. I see RCE with a knob on the game he’s playing, i click. 👌🏼

I loved Matt saying "two and a half grand?" with a question at the end. He did the math correctly, he knew he did. He just also knew if he had gotten it wrong and it made it into a video (and his editors would "let that slip" I bet), we would all call him an architect, forever.

Matt trying his hardest to enunciate Cog for RU-vid captions gave me a nice chuckle

This is if Sid Meier's Railroads and Transport Fever had a baby

You should try railroad tycoon 3 if you like trains. Its a fairly old game at this point, but was implemented very well.

Basically OpenTTD, but a little bit more modern 😃

This game is like OpenTTD had a baby with Civilization.

3:09 "See this cog you weren't paying attention to? Ignore it for now..." ROFL

0:10 "Cow shed"? Do you mean "Barn"? 😆

See, what gets me is Matt not upgrading his earlier trains to better ones.

The double ended engine is a Double Fairlie, they’re common notably on the Ffestiniog. The Double Fairlie design was 2 locomotives put together as obvious as it looks, bug it has 2 boilers and separate injectors, which meant the design wasn’t used much outside Wales. There were also locomotives that were single Fairlies, which was more successful because it wasn’t twice the engine to maintain. The oldest operating Fairlie today is a Mason Bogie named Torch Lake.

You should really try OpenTTD. It's a lot more realistic: trains can't just magically spin around on the tracks, or drive over other trains on the same tracks. It's actually really satisfying to have active networks full of dozens of trains, where you have to worry about signalling, roundabouts, bypasses and removing bottlenecks.

Anyone else audibly groan when Matt destroyed that tree right before the bridge review? 😅😆

Finally! Was worried something happened to Matt!

I really want to see more of this game!😃 it's so run to watch you do it!

I wonder what would happen if Matt played OpenTTD

I like this, it's like Mashinky light. Very cool stuff

At least Paddy's OK.

Used to live next door to Birkenhead on the Wirral. Good little rock pub there 😂 gawd watch RCE, get memories

You could engeneer much more advanced trains inf factorio for sure!

I have one major complaint about this game Birkenhead isn't anywhere near accurate. Not enough tire fires, dinosaurs or incest. I should know, I'm a scouser

It might be time to re-review your old bridge scores. I feel like this one was a lot more usefull then some that got a higher score in the past. And it looks stable and can hold a lot of weight.

Calling the mine cart a mini train sent me 😂

this game seems pretty fun, I love train games

Looks very similar to Railgrade, I don't know if you've played that one before.

That looks neat and cozy - tried the demo right away and failed the goal xD However two things I noticed: you can up-/downgrade trains when selecting them. Also there is no reason to keep "lucrative" lines going because of the limit of 10 trains it's better to repurpose them as you cannot do everything efficiently.

Would love to see this upon release.

12:33 a double ended engine is called a double fairlie. They’re pretty much unique to Great Britain.

I appreciate that you have started using the word stonks

Decided to try the demo after watching this video. Got a 3* completion on my first try, though TBH that's mostly just because I saw how you did it, so I wasn't really going in cold. Also, got the mission completed at 1:04:58 out of 1:05:00. So that was fun.

hi RCE can you make a city with only trains as transportation??

Hey RCE, about timeberborners The beavers don't get contaminated if they walk over infected ground, only if they go in badwater if a beaver is contaminated they can't work. Now to the badwater season: all the water sources will make badwater.

now I can download the Demo :D

Rochefort is a realy city in the french part of Belgium (:

This game remembers me Sid Meyer Railroads I used to play when I was younger, loved that game and will probably give this game a go

I love playing Bridge Review with my young son!

Oooooo this looks like Station to Station. Have you tried that one?

I already know matt's voice tone when a video is sponsered😂 I watch way too many of his videos

24:30 did NOT appreciate the cashback😤

in Sweden we have a city called Motala.

You definitely got to play this again

Flashbacks to Trains in timberborners

I love your videos mat!

Huh this isn’t the normal time😮

Please don't play minecraft. The best thing about Matt is that he plays random and actual fun games. If he plays minecraft he may as well play fortnite next

Day 1 of asking RCE to play OpenTTD. I think he would love it.

Loved this! Pls moreeeee

What you should do is figure out roughly how much that train with those 3 big hoppers full of sand would weigh in polygrams, and then make a custom level in polybridge 3 where you build the bridge that can support it

1:40 Haha, "Janus"

I need a railway round-about.

This reminds me a vastly simplified version of Railway Empire (which is a great game I might add).

I see what you did there. Building the triple intersections in the other strongest shape.👍👌

This video made my Monday

I NEED MORE ENGINNERRSS BIGGAR BRIDGEEESS LET ME RIDE THAT HORSE (ARCHITECT) SIR!

I could tell this was a sponsored video with the title. Do sponsorers do that overlay for youtubers? Or does RCE use a particular cutting tool for this? Just curious..

3:06 This is actually really funny because there's a Swedish town called Motala 😅

great vids as normal matt

So, Love the channel! But what are your thoughts on the workers that have to work on what you have built? Just giving you a little jab lol.

I would have gotten the Janus with the speed boost on all of the train deliveries

Well, had to restart a few times, but managed to get all the bonus stars. That time limit is reasonably aggressive.

This game remains me of transport tycoon. I miss the classics

Matt you live in wales and don’t know the ffestiniog railway where they have what’s called a Double Fairlie locomotive if you love trains which I think you do you need to visit it it’s amazing 🤩

@Real Civil Engineer Hey RCE! love the vids :D I was wondering if you planned on making more Acres Videos??

I liked this game when it was called "SId Meier's Railroads!", back in 2006.

The bad water will flow from all water sources when a bad tide starts.... It does ruin everything. Have to redirect the water before it gets to your city when a bad tide starts

I saw the notification for this video and thought “trains… sounds good”.

16:14 I honestly thought matt was just going to get his coal from the other side of the map.

I was afraid there wouldn't be a video today😢

pretty sure Creusot is pronounced as "Crew-so", but I could be wrong.

I can hear thoughts 😂

This reminds me of Sid Meier's Railroads!

I abdolutely LOVED the original Train Valley. Really sad how much their other games differ from that first one in gameplay; TVW reminds me more of Railway Empire than of Train Valley.

Any chance of you trying out NIMBY Rails??? Would love to see you improve the rail network of the beautiful Birmingham

I think the double sided engine is called the double farly maybe

RCE you need to make this a series like the; city skylines, and polybrige

Hay Matt, can you not build like a huge roundabout that goes around all the towns and then just have tracks branching of to where they need to go ?

Anybody else notice the thumbnail changed from tracks in the form of the strongest shape to just regular tracks? Such ashame, was a great thumbnail 😂

I live in one of the cities in the start :D

This is very similar to Transport Fever

Your first thumbnail was more efficient than this current one.

I try and guess your score every bridge review. One of these days I'll get it! The closest I got was 0.2 off

I'm shocked that you didn't pronounce the Janus train as Jay-Nuss. Like the prank Hugh Janus.

always love htis

We need timberborners

4:57 Wouldn't it be better to just get the 1500 worth of tiles first, and then take the shortest route again? For efficiency?

I noticed that original thumbnail :P

Transport tycoon light edition. :D

I kinda want to to see RCE play pal world

You should play Transport Fever 2. It's the same but better, more engineering.

You should nickname the Janus as Hugh. Hugh Janus.