We Built the Saddest Little Train in Railroads Online! 

With the goat escorting Betsy up, it's like an adult mountain goat guiding a kid up the mountain for the first time. Truly, Nature is full of miracles...

The coal cars that rotate are called rotary couplers. Delivered a coal train to a power plant and got to watch it. Was pretty damn cool.

I bought the Glenbrook as my first engine (besides Betsy) and it's awesome, it's whistle has a pitch between Betsy's and the Class 48's. The Glenbrook has a ton of power, not quite as much as the Class 48 though

It would be awesome if you could tunnel through the mountains

that is not the saddest little train in RRO. give Betsy some love given what you two put her through! go grab the Goat and tie onto every Car you own to make some cash to buy a decent Road Engine and 5 more Hoppers. refill the Logging Pond. then empty the Lumberyard completely selling it at the Depot until there's nothing at the Mill. then refill the Logging Pond to restock while you build from the Iron Mine to the Coal Mine. find a spot at the Helper Station to place a Fueling station to replenish the helpers take the hoppers and a pair of Cordwood Cars up to make sure there's fuel for everybody be they local help or long haulers.

Talking about the Polar Express, someone actually did a breakdown on that ice scene and there was apparently a shot of the wheels where two johnson bars were visible. Not sure if the any train ever actually had two but the movie at least represented it as such I guess

I normally would never watch a 45m video, but you and hyce with all the information you talk about is what really changed things. Great video Kan Keep up the good work

I love the idea of the helper shack off to the side, so cool to see and watch!

I'm a professional captain and have run tugboats and supply boats most of my career. The logistic similarities of the the two transport industries is really amazing. The way the vehicles work is different but to perform the work of transporting goods is nearly the same. Harbor tugs are the switching engines and can form entire companies themselves just to push barges around a harbor from loading docks to staging areas. You have instances where a single tug may not be able to make progress up a river with a strong current (Mississippi River in the spring time, for instance) and a second or even third tug is used as an assist tug. Port harbors are managed by a "Harbor Master" same job as a "Yard Master" and heaven help you if you choose to ignore their instructions. Most tugs and supply boats work in several week rotations and the crew live on the boat during their rotation - crew quarters = caboose. And if it wasn't for civil "working" radio frequencies a working port harbor would be a cacophony of sounding whistles and people trying to shout instructions to each other.

These videos always make me want to continue playing RRO, and mechanical engineering is one of my favorite subjects!

40:25 ahhh Whistlin Diesel reference. Niiice 😂

I work in a factory remanufacturing train turbocharger's which is a pretty fun job, and so I like to learn about the different parts of the trains and how they work. I have been working there for almost two years and have learned quite a lot but just in watching this one video I have learn so much more and it's so interesting how all the little pieces come together to make something so cool and keep the world up and running in the background of everyday life. That being said GREAT video and keep up the good work!! I'll be looking forward to the next one!!

Could the real life Betsy do this? I know nothing about trains. The loaded up car looks chonky compared to the wee Betsy lol

Railroads online does calculate curve friction as far as I remember... From the physics update? Kan keeps freaking out about downhill grades but I find in most cases the friction of the rail keeps it from yeeting itself.

The conversation following 38:50 made me search "polar express deja vu" and I'm not ashamed to admit that

Man i love this series.

Betsy is like:” I’m independent now!”

I love watching Kan surf the train as they putt about....one thing though, is it not true that a train isn't a train unti the marker lights are put on? Can we talk breifly about marker lights for cabooses and locos sometime? I know the Brits use marker lights or lamps on the front of their engines, but we use marker lights differently and I know Hyce knows of these things, then after that maybe we can goof off with whistles?

I work at a power plant that has what’s called a Rotary Car Dumper(RCD). It’s super cool to watch them unload the train.

A few British engines had angled cylinders. Including the one of a kind Midlands railway Big bertha which was a specialised 0-10-0 banking engine and the British rail 9f which was a massive (for British standards but modest compared to things in America) 2-10-0 feieght engine. It was siad that angling the cylinders meant that all the drive rods were aligned with the piston on the power stroke meaning less power was lost through resistance in the rods. It was also beneficial in the 9f as it allowed the engine to be a few feet shorter without having to make the cylinders smaller or the power stroke shorter. (I feel this is more likely than the first) allowing the engine to still fit on existing turn tables, engine sheds and adhere to British loading guage (which is smaller than us and EU) A third benefit is for engines with internal cylinders as it allows them to be longer but not interfere with the axel in front of the powered wheel set.

Can’t wait to see when you guys look at the new stuff in the Christmas update

4:25 thats was whistlin deisel for anyone whos wondering, it was a hellcat on the omish buggy tires

It's the most awesome train my man this is a good idea to not use the large engines sense getting one small engine with just a single hopper and caboose is nice it's like going on a little journey on a small train is nice you don't have to have big things to be great because small is still great even at first it seems sad when at times it isn't

I am pretty sure that is not how that scene worked in Polar express. They "steered" the train using drag. Switching gears to drag the engine in the opposite direction and swing it left and right.

39:27 That actually happens on the Botchan trains. Search "How 'Botchan Train' Turn Back” to see how they flip the locomotive without a turntable!

With all the Advertisment Hyce gives his museum on this channel Kan better go there some day and do a Vlog tour of the place XD

if you ever implement standard gauge it would be really nice to see St. Louis-San Francisco 1630 added. i worked on that engine at the Illinois Railway Museum with my grandfather, helping to retube the boiler and get it in working order.

The polar express is a magical train, it doesn’t have to make sense.

Day 8 (I think): asking for train jousting. PS. Love this series man

That Discord notification at 23:03 spooked me

25:25 If you had cylinders on such a small engine perfectly horizontal and radial to the axle center, the cylinders (and drains) would be so low that you wouldn't really have a lot of clearance.

The automated closed captions: "what's up guys my name is God and we're back today with more railroads online".

Food for thought on todays ore cars. 1 car weighs 96,000 lbs empty and is filled with 100-110 ton's of product. 244 cars pulled by 3 head units and 2 mid mounted engines. Well that's in my neck of the woods on the iron range. Thanks for the shows KAN.

I was thinking, one way to streamline the turnaround at the ore mine would be instead of having a complete run out and then a switch to the turntable have your primary line run down to an area where you can place a turntable and then you can turn the turntable a little bit and connect the return line out at that slightly different angle so you can just run right onto the turntable spin around and go out on the opposite track

Love seeing the “throat-y Goat” 😂

Love this new series.

always love to see some rro

My dad loves this keep up the good work

1:15 doesnt surprise me that you guys are thinking of doing a route from coal mine to the other side to refinery and iron works ive seen it done before should be interesting what you guys do for that route

Every time I watch a RRO video from you two it really makes me want to play it but I have no clue when it comes to computers. Reading the minimum and recommended requirements on steam might as well be rocket science to me although I'd be willing to bet my 4-5 year old laptop couldn't handle it. Are there laptops that could or do I need a console unit and as the father of 3 price is an object... so theres that too. I reckon for now I'll just have to live it out through you guys so keep up the great videos please!

i love the random shoutout to like a 2 year old whistlin diesel vid lmao

With hoppers there is a third type where the top has a mechanism to tip the load to the side as well... I do wonder why they didn't just attach them that way when they decided to turn over the cars.

This video is super awesome and super cool

The other night, I simulated a blowdown despite the lack of blowdown valves by setting the Johnson bar to center and the reg and brake to full with the cylinder cocks open.

You need to make a "Breaking Train" into for your next video. That would be most pleasing... =]

KAN You can stand on the turntable and push it, so you dont have to awkwardly shuffle around it

Some climaxes (and I think a few Heislers too) had articulated tenders with powered wheels. I wonder if that's going to be added to RRO.

To my knowledge, inclined cylinders are purely a space constraint.

Love it

the sadded little train got it's job done though!

Hey kan as I work at a railway museum I can Send some pictures of the stuff Hyce is talking about the wheels and how the axles are connected to the wagons. Only if you don't mind.

highlight of my evening ^^

feels like I'm having deja vu, I could swear I hard this all before, but not from this perspective. =)

great video

I am 100% on board with running the smelter in a Climax or Shay

Me Edit: I appreciate this moment with everyone and thank others for not clicking too fast and giving me a chance like this.

I dont know if this was a thing but trains with gears wheels for doing extreme slopes would be cool

That saddle tank looks like it might have also been offered as a compact standard gauge loco going off the dimensions, where any of those actually built to standard gauge?

kAN you should do a youtube search and check out a video of changing train wheels, it's a really cool process. There's actually *two* levels of gravity attachment - gravity is holding the truck on the wheels, and gravity is holding the car on the trucks

Those videos are now just an informative video about trains

Anyone else hear hyce say 0-5-0 locomotive? 😂

The only thing I currently want to watch is Hyce an Kan Exploring concepts of engineering through games. Trains for now, but perhaps in the future get Hyce into Scrap Mechanic

Y'all are breaking c.r.a.p. in that caboose breaking bad

I actually like that lil train.

Betsy calls in Fist Of The North Star

I come for the gameplay. I stay for the history lessons.

cant wait unlit he plays the new winter update

Were paddle wheel boats basically tank-steering floaty-trains

Whistling diesel he also dressed up in a full Amish outfit in that video. And why not do it if you've got the money and you want to do something stupid seems fun.

Goat, Nanny, Billie, Kidd, Pann

Indeed a sad train

the duluth mousavi and ironrange had iron ore hoppers

THERE IS SNOWPLOWS WOOOOOO

I thing if they added tunnels it would make things interesting

Hyce surprised about something whistlindiesel did months ago.

Breaking trains 😂

Sad you didn't call the class 48 "Big Betsy"

when you fall off the train, use the telegraphs to get in front of it.

KAN imagine this, A BIG BOY in RRO And a passenger industry

watching it at 1.25 speed and it still very watchable

How do you join your friends because I tried to look up my friend and she’s on the same version as I am as a beta version but I can’t join him and I can’t find him

You guys should see my Lionel 0-8-0 fully loaded it will sometimes derail itself

Wow

To fast travel until next episode!

So much of heavy machinery relies on gravity. Tank turrets are completely free floating. None of them are secured by anything other than gravity, which is why so many of the Russian tanks that lack blowout panels have their turrets try to reach orbit when an ammo rack explodes.

It's time to cook

It might be more trouble than it’s worth but you and Hyce should try to make different videos. Or somehow edit them different enough that watching both doesn’t feel like watching the same thing twice. I get the video is different but the audio has always been mostly the exact same. Kan I feel you cut a little more than Hyce does. Idk I’ll still always watch but it would be cool to give you both views for the “same video”.

I want to see the LAST HOPE again:(

23:02 who else had to glance at their discord real quick lmao

Hey in zeepkist can you do sponge Bob or a Disney theme?

Heist said 6 inches is pretty big😂

Is it me or did kAN change the channel banner?

The game needs Dynamite, time to tunnel

Kan stop cooking methamphetamine in the waycar

1 minute ago? im early!

Need the map to show your railway lines

8:19 you're DEAD wrong there, I've seen and had to work on incidents where a train car did go over a ridiculous jump... It HAD been a bump stop, but they backed a car into it so fast the stop became a ramp and the train cleared something like 12' airborne before slamming back down into the pavement. It was easy to read exactly what happened in the marks left in the pavement I was there to help fix lol.

all of the trains can push through thier brakes. just not at full speed

modern train have a pin that holds the truck mark is wrong

Could you hypothetically pull all eight loaded cars up the 6.5% tripleheading Betsy, Montezuma, and the class 48?