I Built Double Main Line Track and an UPHILL Shunt Yard in Aurora Falls! 

What should we do next in Aurora Falls?

The wood rick still generates firewood automatically, just very slowly. If you put it down somewhere now, it will have decent stock when you need it later. They tried disabling the autogeneration before, but that could lead to people soft-locking themselves. Also we really need some firewood cars that can load and unload in bulk. Would be great having to create the fuel with the firewood depot and then distribute it to the wood ricks in different other places.

36:21, somewhere, Hyce just felt a chill in his spine

There's this whole yard in Europe built on an incline and part of their shunting process is to literally send carriages down the hill by themselves. I wish I could remember where it is. It's really interesting to witness. Your idea of just yeeting the cars down the hill reminded me XD

Can’t wait to see operations with friends on this map. Going to be rad seeing all the engines flying across the rails

Cool, you´re bombarding us with RO now. KEEP IT UP!!!!

on most railroads, the light would still be on in the day to show which direction the engineer intends to go

On the Transcend between Sacramento and Reno the dual track splits and crosses over itself at Rocklin CA. The tracks are miles apart until Colfax, CA where they rejoin. Just like your tracks do. Historically correct. Good job.

thank you again, we really appreciate your videos 🙂

You are the only one realistically laying track keep it on

Some Industries had just enough space for a turntable, so there'd be a passing loop or passing siding with a spur off to the turntable, where the engine would be turned around and then coupled back up to the train. And Another thing-the Meat Packing Plant requires coal, so I'd recommend connecting the cattle and maybe the logging camp to the line you have. Also, Water and Seed pallets bring you 5 bucks per unit while grain brings you 10 bucks per unit.(And with the Ewa Valley carrying four, you'd get forty bucks) and the Straw Bales are 5 bucks per bale (and the Gregg Cordwood Car carries 4) Something else to consider is maybe making you a branch line to the Dredge, but you'd have to really choose it from there. Do you want to slog it to the coal mine (Which can be done at a straight shot at 10%) or have shallower grades but have the coal mine come back to the freight depot and from there, make a siding for the tools, coal and pipes to take to the dredge. (If you go the main hub route, the route can be done at a max of 5-5.5%)

The wood ricks DO still generate wood, it's just slow.

Fun fact for today the worlds longest railway line is The Trans-Siberian Railway it stretches a massive 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles) in length

Another Kan RRO video? Yes please!

I would suggest doing 30 min or 60 min day-night cycle for videos. RRO has some options for the day-night cycle that are too quick to feel immersed. EDIT: They changed the woodrick, but reverted the change so it stills makes firewood afaik. But there is a major bug in the major build where product delivered can be wasted because industries don't wait for space for said product, they just keep creating product if they're not at the max, its more noticeable with industries like the Mines, Ironworks or Refinery but the easiest way to test is simply with the firewood depot. Also the issue with the coaling tower rails also are a known bug, why the RRO dev team is waiting this long when they could give players a hotfix for these issues is beyond me.

It is indeed a bug with the coal tower. All linking is disabled within a certain distance from it (the specifics of which I didn't have the patience to figure out)

I love to watch your play throughs of RRO to gather inspiration, compare ideas for my own experiences while playing. I did a duo main line looping through the farms, sawmill, refinery, express way, and back to the farms.

im so happy your playing RRO again. I bought this game after i found your series on the game before- i binged all those videos in like a week and a half lol

I know its not fully narrowgauge but at the 45 cross have it maybe be a trestle to verticly protect the mainline from any yard escapes aswell as removing running conflicts with the "southbound" track aswell as upping the hump point a bit further 11:59 also that is the rulling grade , as in the steepest bit so thats actually preatty realistic

13:10 solid minute of kan questioning his life's choices :D

That yard looks fine even from the side. The former yard in my city is on a *much* bigger embankment which is effectively its own hill now, albeit it's mostly empty space on top as the yard itself is long gone beyond a few stabling tracks for the passenger service. Yard itself was built in the 1860s and expanded in the 1880s/1890s so it's not like it's a modern equipment thing either.

Yes, railroads online extended still work they don't have the new map so it usesthe first map . It still shows all industries some the new show unknown and tracks are still shown

The way my group used to transport firewood is buy a cheap loco and only keep the tender and transport a full tender up to where you need it simples.

Nice video and game, Aurora Falls brought me back into RRO

You can drop off any kind of wood at the firewood depot and get firewood out of it. You can tell by glancing at the drop off point, it literally has one stack of every kind of wood load there: a log, a beam stack, a cordwood bundle, and a stack of lumber. It makes sense, since any old scrap wood could and would be used as fuel. Using the original flat cars (pre-mini-car era) you could offload 6 logs, 6 lumber, 3 beams, or 8 cordwood to fill the 0/30 “wood”. One “wood” is converted into 20 locomotive firewood, split 5/5/5/5 across the four stacks, so in order to make it work, you need all four stacks down to 95/100 for it to replenish any. Best part (assuming it’s the same as when I played last in October) is you are paid for the wood equally as to what you get dropping it at the freight depot or at an industry, since it’s technically being “consumed and converted”, so if you just want to fill it up, and fast, get an original cordwood car and plop 8 in at a time for said fast filling, or 6 lumber at a time if you’re more concerned with making money (if I recall the cash values correctly). I remember the beams were worth twice what lumber was, but net value is the same in the end since 6 lumber at $24 each is equal to 3 beams at $48 each (or was it $12 x 6 = $24 x 3?) and I think it was $10 for cordwood? It’s been months, and I’m assuming you still get paid for filling the firewood stations. Using the mini-cars, I think it’s 5 logs, 1 beam / 1 lumber, and 2 cordwood, meaning of the three kinds it would be best to get a couple of the log cars for the task honestly and park them on the offload in between uses until you could afford a full sized cordwood car for the 8 materials each, then just keep one parked at the offload with cordwood like I do and offload a couple as needed. Bottom line: there is literally no firewood car for the simple reason that any wood in is converted into firewood, 20 units of any wood to fill it total from empty, and you get paid for it. Literally no need to move firewood around on a flatcar. In real life they brought firewood to the staging locations every 20 miles by foot, cart, and so forth in the mountains then had the poor sap living there chop and stack it before helping load the tender when the train finally arrived. Coal on the other hand, that did have to be brought in by rail itself. Last I recall, filling your coal tipple gains you $0 since it just goes into the hopper for storage until it goes into your tender. However, you can also just refill your locomotive tender directly from the coal mine chute itself, just park your tender at the chute instead of a gondola and load normally. You can also pour coal from your yard tipple back into a gondola and then deliver it for cash to the freight depot or to an industry, so if you ever need coal but the mine needs a restock first, if you can spare it, you can raid your tipples to feed the industry and buy the new car or locomotive up front and fast instead of fighting for 3-4 hours up the chain.

10:46 In my game play, I have like 3% grade track all the way from a farm towards the water tower and sawmill, and when I was pooling the water cars with montezuma back to the farm I didn't manage with 3 cars it stalls to stop like almost half way, I was play on realistic physics settings as I always plays RRO, so I have to disconnect one wagon and pull 2 of them bearly and come back empty for 3rd. Later on, I have tried same but without fuel wagon attached, I managed to pool 3 wagons like almost to the farm, like 200 meters away from the farm until train stops to 0. So, maybe next time try to disconnect the fuel wagon while taking montezuma on hills, it will save you some tractive effort on hills. 22:16 to be able to place the object near the rails without deleting the rail, don't aim down and near the character, just stand in a spot on the rails like 30+ meters away from the spot you want a building and aim at the spot on the rails if needed that you want to place the object which have an offset like this firewood depot and when you are satisfied with the position click to place it. I found out that in my save game few days ago :D My first industry connected is farm, then I connect the logging camp all the way to the sawmill and water tower going near the farm and ofc back to the depo. Then I've done like fool seed run until I fill 100 seeds on a farm, then I have bring logs to sawmill until it's full on output and input, then I have bring water to the farm and keep bringing water and seeds until the farm have full output and input. Later on I have connected cattle farm and bring some straw bales and water to it until full input, and since I haven't enough exp(lvl) to buy wagon for grain I have grind logs to the depo until I make some cash to buy new engine and then few grain wagons which I have delivered to the cattle farm and keep delivering all the grain, straw and water until cattle farm have full output and full input storage. Then I have build up the line going from the coal line thru cattle farm, depo then smelter and also connected the smelter to the sawmill as well going thru the oil factory (right from the depo on the map), I have manage to make 2% grade all the way toward the sawmill following the the cliff line which now I also use it for the water line, also, I have connected Oil well as well on the bottom side of the map. I have bring some rails and beams to the coal mine until output and inputs are full. Now I have to connect everything to the meat processing plant and feed it full and bring back the product to depo. I also found out that payment is much better when you feed the second resource to the right industry rather than selling it to the depo. Keep up great content and channel as always kAN

I have a feeling cordwood cars would be what you can use to transport wood to the wood fuel stations.

9:30 the engine was cold before you got to the water well, was wondering when you would finally notice it 😄

I think you should build a little yard at every little location that you have connected to so you don’t have to move it that much

Love that you are back playing RRO. Just wish we fixed a lot of the little quality of life items that would improve the game, beside the stability issues that are priority number one. Would love to be able to elevate switches and have a depth control on placing structures up and down.

I feel that i speak for the people when i say this but... Kan, we need more of this GREAT CONTENT! 🙏👍

I do enjoy this series, would love to see a railroader video ni the future :)

hey mate you should take a screenshot of the map and draw all the current lines green and upcoming lines in purple and new lines red so you got a plan what to do. hope this helps

Short day cycles and half the video being at night is just expected in every game you play at this point. It wouldn't be a Kan video without a battle against the Sun and Moon.

On crossing over double tracks in RL it rarely comes up for freight. The modern US freight rail network is about 85% single track, and most of the double track is sidings. Rail crossing rail is rare (outside of stations), as crossing track is very high maintenance. If you see a place where tracks cross in the wild, there's often a history there of two different RR companies that made an arrangement to cross their networks (though it may all be the same company today). Passenger rail is a different story.

In the future, I would make the water station a hump yard since the water station has that little hump. It would be perfect.

Railroads are always gonna keep double track together. Yes they may have a main running direction for each track but there will be occasions that they will have to swap directions or maybe pass other slower/stopped train. I did alot of railfanning in the Tehachapi Pass area. It was a mix of double and single track.

When the railroad first laid out a slower, twistier single track ROW and decades later built a more direct route for newer more powerful equipment with better brakes, they do sometimes end up in exactly your situation.

Amazing tracks

I have heard they fixed the Johnson bar back a little, and if you bring it back toward center you will get a little more speed out of it.

I am delivering water using a 9 tank car train with double headed Porter power. Max grade of 4.5%. Nine tankers will supply 54 units per run.

game has had a lot of updates. last I watched your videos, there was a leveling system. appears that went away. great series!

The Madison incline is the steepest non gog standard guage in North America at a 5.89% grade

The trains don't collide with the coal tower track at all anymore for some reason. I had to build new tracks over mine that I had placed ages ago, it was a massive pain in the butt.

Getting to the gold mine then to the smelter looks like it’s gonna suck when you get there lol. Looks like you’ll have to either to right and snake it around that frozen lake, or left along the cliff edge. Who knows might have to resort to one of those goofy engineless downhill hopper car line with multiple handbrakes tied like you did in your old series with Hyce. 10 bucks says you forget to set brakes on your cars in the yard in the future.😂 Excited to see more building!

not sure if this idea is already suggested, but if you put the switch handels on the right side of the track it will be easier to see what switch handel matters in case your wondering what you mean: if you arive at a switch from the single side, the handel/lever should be on your right and if you arive frome one of the tracks on the double side, the handel/lever should be on your left this prevents 2 handels being right next to eachother

@KAN 😆 yes your expected to work now, stow that firewood 😆 🤔 Tried unloading a cordwood wagon ay the firewood stock pile?

i usally always make sure to make the switches right handed, so when im going into a switch the levers always on the right

Also you can fill the water cars at ANY water tower. You can add water at the depot as soon as you spawn the cars in at time of purchase.

KAN PLEASE can you try to lower the reg when your train picks up speed? I mean if I understood what Hyce said correctly, you can get faster speeds by moving the reg closer to center, right?. I think you event said yourself in the previous video that they had fixed the way the reg works.

I wonder if the coal loading trac wouldnt link because the building beside it was blocking it the Sand lot I think. There has been talk of adding a way to have loading unloading points have a device or shadow that shows where the track would lay optimally but still hasnt happened yet sadly. as to the laying switches they lock to the inclination and declination of the track they attach to. Havent played in a month so I may be wrong here but I thought there was a number pad option that allows you to change inclination and declination of the track

You could get a porter or a hardy little tank engine to be the pilot for the shunt yard

Rail Road Studio didn’t update the map to Aurora Falls. That said, it works. Rail Road Online Extended quit and works the prior version.

If I were to build a service track, I would build it sort of like a shunting yard aesthetic with each lane servicing one thing, for example: a strictly water lane one, a strictly wood for another (where you can put the cars strictly used for wood in a shunting lane next to the wood area so they are there when you need them) and so on so that way your not clogging up that single lane with multiple locomotives that need different things done to them

The southern pacific line out of Sacramento to colfax is built with one line built at a more shallower grade witch eastbound trains use and to older second main witch is more stepper grade is used by westbound trains and do cross over each other jest a mile from sacramento.

29:30 You can place sloped fill first and then put the switches on top.

40 is perfectly fine for monty. the carts on the other hand just wanna fly of the track when u go over like 35...

It´s the second episode and you have already forgotten that the jhonson bar / reverser works.

Do love a Kan railroads vid! 👍

I want to see the yearly caboose races again

Kan, for the switch yard, why not just do short inclined track segments between switches to compensate for the slight grade?

You need to think about an engine shed and on the other side of the freight depot you can have a station

Cajon Pass, they go up the 2.2 and have either 2.2 or a 3.5% grade shortcut down.

Should drop cars in from the top of the yard rather than push from the bottom. It is essentially a giant hump yard, so dropping from the top you won't have to pull forward, than back up into a different lane.

Why do you use two basic switches instead of the "Stub Switch 3 way" to separate the rail in three sections? Just in case you don't realize later, maybe you should reduce the night length, make it 45min daytime 5-10 minutes nighttime. While nighttime in this map is beautiful, long nights are annoying.

You should build a turn table with nothing but shelds for engines all the way around it with one rail out to the like outside area

Nice game

Railroads Online Extended still mostly works, though it's a bit buggy right now. They haven't updated it in a few months.

"This is gonna be great!" *best Morgan Freeman voice*: "But it wasnt great, Because Kan forgot to put all the breaks on the trucks, and then slowly rolled out of the freight yard without him knowing."

@Kan they added something fun to the game if you put your reverser towards center bar ~34%

I used a similar y at the wheat farm to run to the oil fields and logging camp

I like trains.

@kANGaming 3:47 yes it still works with nice and uniform backgrounds, thanks to me :)

My current set up on this map has a 22 lane marshaling yard and does not surpass 2% with multiple of each industry

If you are having trouble reading the grade, turn the foliage off while laying track.

I miss the "Rail -- Roads -- On-Line " intros .. made me laugh every time .. Great Episode though

I think the 3 way stub switch is shorter than the point switch.

Dude, please do more caboose racing again now that the cars can go faster!

Hello everyone:)

How did you lay the double track???? Ive tried to get the turns and everything correct, but they dont line up

In Britain at barken London underground has a fly over to get to there main line

I cant wait for the day when this game is on console

Can you add these Railroad Online videos to your Railroad Online playlist? Thanks!

We want switchbacks🎉

RRX doesn't work on Aurora Falls map yet. As of 3/13/24. I hope they get it soon.

kAN you use logs or cordwood to get fire wood

Here's a name for the Railroad Central Hub for Efficient Express Shipment and Export Or for short "CHEESE"

Lol gravity train

600th like

Idk why but whenever I watch you you sound like your stopped up and I forget that That's how you sound so I go bless his heart he always stopped up

Billy… you’re 14 and still have all your fingers… It’s sad… so I need you to walk out on that running board and turn the light on. By the way I had the same problem with my coal tower. But I might try putting the rails over top like you said.

First comment, hi KAN!

kAN you can change how long day and night lasts

Logging camp

Does anyone know where i can listen to the soundtrack for RRO? I can't find it

Hi

20 seconds!!!

Log Industries Freight Depot Input- Everything Output- Seed pallet Logging Camp Input-Nothing Output Logs & Cordwood Sawmill Input- Logs Output- Beams & Lumber Iron Ore Mine Input- Beams & Lumber Output-Iron Ore Smelter Input- Cordwood & Iron Ore Output- Raw Iron & Rails Coal Mine Input- Rails & Lumber Output- Coal Ironworks Input- Lumber, Raw Iron & Coal Output- Tools & Steel pipes Oil Field Input-Steel pipes, Beams & Tools Output- Crude Oil Refinery Input- Lumber, Steel pipes and Crude Oil Output- Oil Barrels This is what you need for the Cattle farm industries Wheat Farm Input-Seed Pallet & Water Output-Grain & Straw Bale Cattle farm Input-Grain, Water & Straw Bale Output- Cattle Meat Packing Plant Input- Cattle & Coal Output- Meat Gold mine industry Gold mine Input-Coal, Beams, Rails & Tools Output-Gold Ore Dredge Input-Coal, Tools & Steel pipes Output-Gold Ore Stamp Mill Input-Gold Ore, Water, Coal, Cordwood Output-Refined Gold Gold Smelter Input-Refined Gold & Coal Gold Ignotes Railway Express Agency Input-Refined Gold & Gold Ignotes Output- Next update? (Feel free to copy and paste into your notes) Edit... Your freight Depot does not come with wood. You can drop off Logs, Cordwood, Lumber and Beams at the wood part and yes the wood ricks do generate wood. It just takes a while for it to do so.

Connect to the logging camp

Why is the video in 360p?