Running Yard Operations on a Realistic Smelter Setup in Railroads Online! 

Sometimes i imagine kan on a real train looking confused with his little shovel and hat he brought at Toys R us 10 years ago 😂

Kan the top down maps that you drew in your last play through really helped visualize haw you laid the track. It would be great if you could do that again or in the community tab. Love your videos

I think you should make two lines to the iron mine, a 3-4% one for going up, and a 10% ‘shortcut’ track to go back down…

Thank you for the visual of the injector! Also I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in wanting a Hyce & Kan C.R.A.P. railroad classes series (although that's basically what makes this series of RO so great, y'all nerding out about trains).

You picked the right guy to play with This series is amazing

I could just listen to this all day long! I’ve loved trains ever since I was a kid and learning how they run really inspires me!

It would be really cool if there were areas near each industry that if you left appropriate cars there they would slowly fill one by one. I imagine lore wise that this is the industry staff filling them and it incentivises buying more cars and building sidings and would mean more time driving and shunting and less time loading cars manually.

You guys should do an experiment series. I wanna see if you can create a track that’s 100% downhill from lumber yard to the smelter. See you can send cars down without an engine.

To whoever reads this, I dont care, but have a good day.

Okay seriously as a Canadian that part about the British being dense was hilarious and also as a descendant from a British colony in the Caribbean that made me spit out my tea lol

Hyce- long lecture on complex steam engine mechanics Kan- train go chugga chugga

Oh cool, new video, glad to catch it so soon, been loving the serise, have started watching Hyce's videos. They have such a soothing voice, and are good at explaining stuff.

Don't know about trains, but moving cargo trailers around a yard is called shunting in Canada. If you've ever seen the most stripped down big rig ever, it's probably a shunt truck for a big yard

yeah I wanted to tell Kan that shunting was a Britishphrase, but its just sooo cute when he says it that I let it slide, that and round table...it just makes me grin and like him more, lolz

Wow. Thats a great opportunity to make a colab with Smarter Everyday. I think Destin would love to explain and learn about all those details... steam locomotives are really complicated 😃

This is the first series on RU-vid that I have EVER watched both viewpoints of. Thanks to you and Hyce for a great series so far! Hope for many more episodes and further collabs between you two in the future :)

im so excited for the rest of this series talking about trains and playing a simulator and doing all of this and that i find it really interesting especially because i understand it all because of my background but it really takes me back to my childhood because i used to love trains as a kid and its cool to learn more in depth on them even later in life when they used to not interest me until kan started playing railroads online

Kan I was literally just about to start watching Hyce’s video of the EXACT SAME route when I got the notification that you posted this

Loving this series! Would love to see more of the track laying, be cool to see you and Hyce do a RU-vid stream if possible. : )

That description of the soot covered ceilings sounds alot like Vantablack which makes sense as both are made with high concentrations of Carbon.

For those pieces of rail sticking out beyond the cordwood dropoff and iron pickup, if you put an uphill grade on that it would reverse the engine for you. I would use a 4% grade or so, just enough that the Montezooma's in-cab brake can hold itself and 3 full cordwood cars.

OMG thank you Hyce! I've been telling him about shunting VS switching ever since he started playing!

I will try to put my understanding of this injector into words: It seems like the injector uses the venturi effect with a first nozzle to draw the fresh water into a second nozzle where the fresh water/steam mix is accelerated by the original steam jet pushing behind it(which provided the original venturi effect to draw the fresh water from the tank) At the end of the second nozzle is an overflow area that allows smooth start up of injector operation and relief of excess volume of material back to the fresh water tank during operation. (the injector requires a flowing steam jet to start up and begin drawing fresh water before a high enough pressure is created to open the check valve at the boiler) The water flowing though the second nozzle is accelerated into a pressure jet that shoots straight through the overflow area into a third nozzle (which is a diverging nozzle) The high speed jet of water entering the third nozzle impacts the slow water sitting in the third nozzle pushing on it and causing a pressure increase in the third nozzle outlet until it is above the boiler pressure and water can flow past the check valve and into the boiler. The injector is powered by the energy of the steam, using it to make a small fast high energy jet of water that is used to pressurize a chamber by firing the jet into a small hole in the chamber

Essentially it's a venturi to add vaporized water without flooding or cooling the feed down too much. I think that'll help also to vaporize the incoming water; still cooling it, without flooding it out as the liquid water passes through. If you didn't have that narrow passage and part of the overflow, the inlet water would be liquid form, and gauging how much water you're adding and how fast is nearly impossible, it'd destroy the boiler. Unless you add essentially a needle valve to control your inlet flow as well as vaporize that water as quickly as possible, it wouldn't work. That is really cool honestly especially knowing it's an old design, but a really good idea/design in that era to make it work.

My dad and I were members of a model railway club. Dad was a surveyor and calculated the correct transition curves for every bend. Here in the UK transition curves are used so trains don't lurch into bends when transitioning from straight track. I suspect they are used worldwide including the USA but can't speak for anywhere else. It'd be nice to see them modelled here but suspect that might be a stretch.

So, I work as a mechanic at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and I absolutely love working on Miss Kitty here. Shes a 1917 Baldwin on 36" gauge. 2-4-0 although we converted her to diesel she is still just as gorgeous as ever.

Hyce: 3 minute fascinating technical description of the intricate details of boiler and steam engine design and operation kAN: Chugga chugga chugga

Also switching the goose from one side of the pond to the other is now my favorite term

Love this series!!!! Keep on tracking ! Side note, do miss your Scrap Mechanic noob vs pro series, hope you will some day fire that up again?

15:30 is the diagram of the steam injector. I work on cars in my free time, and I noticed a lot of similarities between the steam injector and a carburetor. Both use the same method to draw in fluid called a Venturi. The first two cones in the picture create that converging then diverging nozzle also know as a venturi. Cars use it to draw in gasoline into a stream of air, while trains use a stream of steam to draw in water. Idk if they mention this at all in the video but i thought it was a really interesting comparison. If you can’t find videos about the steam injector there are hundreds of videos explaining carburetors and the venturis inside them. I’m not a train expert at all but from what i can tell the two systems seem very similar. The only real difference is flow rate because of the higher pressure going through the venturi. It’s kinda like putting turbo boost through a carburetor. More boost= more gasoline flow. That’s why you can get runaway if you set up boost wrong. Even the “valve” on the right side of the diagram could be what is known as a throttle valve in cars. And a valve on the other side would be a choke. Hearing them explain it in the video i had no idea what they are talking about but once i saw the picture i instantly thought of a carburetor. I’m kinda curious now if you could use a steam injector as a big carburetor for something like a top fuel dragster. That would be something to see.

Smelter yard looks fantastic. Just needs a bunch of random dirt and gravel road crossings in the middle of the tracks :P

22:00 Uphill slow. Downhill fast. Hyce is driving. ZOOM! ZOOM!

Class 48 is an awesome bang for the buck! 9,550 foot pounds of torque only weighing 33 000 pounds. Has price of $3500. It's my current main engine at the moment as it does tight turns with ease and can pull pretty well even on a 3 degree incline

I loved it. Love Hyce. Love you too Kan :D I can't wait for the next ride along.

I’m surprised ol’ Monty didn’t get yeeted off the track from hitting the bumper again.

I might be able to help with getting to the iron/coal mine in an interesting and scenic way, I know a route that can do 2-2.5% up to the plateau where the iron/coal mine switch off is, it has tight curves but its really beautiful. The ERC would be happy to show off our patent pending route from the smelter to the iron mine.

I've been on the Durango Silverton rail and it was awesome. Would definitely recommend it.

You and everyone you have played railroads online with are the reason I am getting a PC to play railroads online

Nothing like kicking cars all day. Real railroading right there. Wish we did it at my shortline

Loving the show. Can't wait for the next one.

I love watching this for a bedtime story

10:00 what Hyce is talking about happened at the railroad where I work. The safety valve popped open when we stopped at a station for 15 minutes and I usually go on the engine to show the people what is going on but that time I wasn't on the engine and boom the safety valve popped

I also love how I am learning more engineering from 2 guys playing a video game about trains. Some days I feel like where the world is now with content is directly aimed at showing schools that videogames are not pointless.

Thank you for the diagram. I really enjoyed studying it.

You should get the you should get the mosca locomotive for your railway, because it is cheap, has a lot of tractive effort and it has large drive wheels and can go at higher speeds.

There's something hilarious about kan retelling the story of the tunnels in Ottawa being black with soot on the top, and clean on the bottom, even saying "which is the capital of Canada" this time too. And hyce using the same examples of his stories about it with them not being able to paint it all making a black hole of a roof. Except this time kan didn't talk about how you can't clean it 😂

I skipped the Montezuma and saved up the extra 1k for the saddle tank engine, climbs up my iron mine route great.

I saved up enough to get a Glenbrook, and it is an amazing engine, up a 3% grade it can handle 4 cars of planks and 4 cars of beams. It's got some good pulling power. According to the calculator I use, the setup I mentioned here has 7% remaining load capacity. It's not fast up the hill, but it gets up the hill.

14:40 No, for rocket there's a turbopump, to inject several kilos of fuels per sec, which is powered by another engine for itself, that's why there is some extra nozzle for exhaust

Great layout. Love it. Please could you make a map of the railroad and link it in the discription.

At the main station in Cologne some of the glass of the roof are still black from the soot (grime) that all those steam engines blow out during the times they went in an out. There are less every year as they need to be exchanged as the glass gets too old and too thin and so it might break and harm people below waiting for a train or walking there.

do the floating switch by putting groundwork in beetween the 2 tracks. the ties will stick out but thats what i do

The water and fluid mechanics sounds like a pressurized air vacuum.

It would be interesting to see if a load of cordwood could travel from the valley mouth to the smelter in a controlled manor by gravity and brakes. Have a brakeman who rides the run of cordwood to the bottom to then process with a class-48 so the Montezuma can continue with other operations up on the highlands and then only return to the smelter to retrieve the empty cars.

appreciate the diagram onscreen about the injector might take a peek at rro again soon after scrap mechanic lol

I love this series

I just wanna watch you redo the shunt yard at the freight depot.

Excellent episode.

In Canada the term is called switching, just so you know.

I... very much enjoy this series kAN.

Petition to have C.R.A.P. Railroads name their Eureka Shart

Oh and con I know you're paying I'm from Central Labrador I drive for 5 hours I'm still in my province lol, and now I'm driving from Alberta to Labrador next weekend, fun times in the ice n snow, stay warm brother

In the end, when you are talking about running goods you could have a couple people manning the switches.

On one of your steep grades you should try and doing a train switchback (zig zag) up/down the mountain Would love to see what use could do

Really love these videos

I'm from the states, and I say Shunting. Damn you Thomas the Tank Engine!!!

Almost everything about railroads has a different name here in the UK. The "engineer," as you discussed, becomes the "driver," "ties" become "sleepers," switch" becomes "set of points." Even "railroad" itself becomes "railway." And I'd like to point out that we invented railways, so you guys are technically the ones who are wrong. :P

great series

Super cool, does hyce have a list of narrow Gauge locos? If so, during a video could you review /talk about them. Love the videos as always!

Kan: there wasn’t enough space for a George Town loop The north island railway: challenge accepted >:)

You need to make this a podcast.

Tbh, the unloading line SHOULDN'T be a deadend, but instead reconnect to the line you parked your train on

i have a question for hyce, what would happen if you ran out of water at high speeds on the minline

In Australia, you can drive for 12 hours straight and still be in the same state

Lovin' this

In Alaska from King Cove to Utqiagvik (furthest city south and north that isn't an island) is 1133 miles (as the crow flys) and you can't drive there because there are no roads and from Teller to Ketchikan (furthest city west and east that isn't an island) it's a distance of 1348 miles (as the crow flys) and again you can't drive there because there are no roads so while you could get a good vehicle for it like a sherp and drove in the winter and used the rivers it MIGHT be possible to drive to all of those cities but it would be more mileage than the miles I gave because that's as the crow flys and it would take probably weeks and you would need air supplied fuel and materials because you wouldn't have many opportunities to get them elsewhere so it wouldn't be anywhere near cheap either

What I would really think could be great about this series would be for an episode when you've basically played through all of RO to go like kAn, Hyce, Dapper, Kosmo and maybe even more ppl on this server to each grab one train and each have a different goal. Everyone makes a video of it and at the collision points you communicating with each other could be a great thing to have. (Altho I know it's probably not gonna happen bc it'd take WAY too much work to do all that)

I’m enjoying this a lot haven’t watched in forever hi lol😂

Thanks for the diagram Kan could not rap my head around that verbally

"Hello and we're back with some Railkist Online"

Considering it was a Brit who invented the steam train. Our way is the correct way, just saying 😝😝 Driver not engineer 😝. But ye the British network is much more condensed so engineers were never far from a train to go out to repair it. Considering the size of the US and Canada you could be days not hours from a depot. Great vid Kan 👍 really informative stuff

I would love to see kAN build a diamond crossover similar to the Iron Triangle in Fostoria, Ohio. I don't know how common that would be but it would be cool nonetheless.

Hey, Kan, fun RO! bug, if you stand on the 90 crossover/diamond in the build menu, you can glitch yeet yourself

I wish I could play with yal, seems like it would be a ton of fun.

5 hours, come to australia, you can drive for 18 hours and still be in the same state look up the Bruce Hwy in Australia it is over 1043 miles long and that is the length along on state

Current railroad engineer here 13 years experience! Let me come switch with y’all! I’ll teach you how to flat switch!!

@15:29 thanks kan. saved me some time looking that up, which i used to write this comment... which i wouldnt have written if you didnt... ok never mind..

My mom used to work for the railroad in Canada and I vaguely recall her saying shutting. She's British though...

yay first komment

Love your videos, would love to play RRO with you both :)

W Series

Whoever is reading this is hopefully having a better day than my best friend, her and I have been in the ER for 12 hours now because she kept having nonstop seizures. She is currently doing ok and is sound asleep. But I sure hope it stays that way and that she doesn’t have any more. Anyways, I am sitting on the floor watching through Kan’s railroads online videos. As a man, trying to hold back my tears whilst putting out a prayer every once in awhile isn’t something I do very often but you know how it is when you care about your friends. I’d do anything for my friends, especially a best friend like her… to the kind soul reading this… have a good one bud.. you are loved by many.

I find it so funny that they say "Pee in a cup" like there was drug tests in the 1800s

notice how the logging camp is still named Pine Valley Logging Co. whennone of the trees are pine trees lol.

The turntable reminds me of doing the locks on canals and if you dont have the water lvl balanced its impossible to move the gate

I love this play through and I have the game now. What is the tightest radius in meters that all the trains can do? is it 70m or 60m?

You should redo the logging camp and sawmill like you did the smelter.

I like to watch both videos simultaneously synced up but with one video muted. you get both viewpoints without needing to double the watch time.

It only takes 2.5 hours to drive across the Netherlands and 7 hours to drive across Nebraska where I live.That's crazy I thought European countries were way bigger like the size of the US

Gotta see that 0-6-0 shunting