I think about it sometimes but it's not on the immediate cards. A build series would have to be for the enjoyment of playing as views for the last series weren't great. It didn't even have an end episode and no one seemed to care. It's very difficult to get motivated to do it if no one watches. I don't have very much time at the moment either. Lots of things irl to deal with. I was thinking of maybe driving some routes. That might happen. We'll see.

I've got the Darley Haverson mod. It's interesting with the loop line.

In all seriousness I deal with the coal train at Alaska jct so I can just back the empties up the hill, uncouple, and go to the bottom to gravity feed the fulls on. Works a treat

I've use loads of modded track but the one type of track I haven't used is anything that rolling stock might park on. My worry is that the game has an update which stops the track mod working and the rolling stock on it is gone. Mods thus far when needed have been updated pretty fast and the worst outage has only been a few hours but if the game has a large update it could happen. A lot of these larger tack mods adding sidings or loops look great and have good feedback on Discord. But losing progress on the series would be a shame. That said I have thought about doing a single video looking at these track mods and what would happen to rolling stock if the mod broke. But as usual time is the factor stopping me so this kind of video. Too many things irl.

So the good thing about this game is your cars go into a “lost and found” which makes you place the entire consist on a good piece of track. While playing with mods to figure out what ones I wanted to use and which ones I wanted to take away this happened a bunch. The only time the game got weird was when it decided cars that needed delivered had to go back to the interchange, but they just came again on the next roll over.

I've lost wagons in a past update which is in a video somewhere. Some were still there in the consist on the next game load and some weren't. Hose pipes were still open letting out air for the remaining cars. This wasn't modded track or cars it should be said, things just disappeared after an update. I can go into god mode just replace them of course but being a series I try to keep consistency. That said I was very tempted to try the double (duel) track mod the other day. That would solve many issues.

The A team of winging it lol

The closest I can think of is Trainz has multiplayer building support so multiple people can help to build a single map at the same time. I'd suggest to visit their site forum for more info and chat with other players to see how well that works as I've not tried it. The latest version of the game as if writing this is Trainz 22 platinum.

@@bluewizard searching a little, I find simrail that has this approach.

As far as I understand you can't build or edit the maps on Simrail. It does have multiplayer which I believe you can drive or work the signals on. If you're looking for a multiplayer experience where you actually do jobs Railroader might be something worth looking at. I have many solo player videos on the channel. It's not really a train driving SIM but more of a railway SIM with driving

I was glad to have that day done lol

First... maybe only.... who knows lol

My only issue is that I am too used driving similar locos on Diesel Railcar Sim and so find it hard to transfer braking distances over. Other than that... maybe because I've done 100+ Diesel Railcar Vids I find driving this era of loco fairly easy. I'm not good at it but I can do it and enjoy the experience. Glad to hear you don't hate driving it lol

@@bluewizard It'll never replace the rattling, smoke-spewing joy that is the Class 45. Bought the game for the US trains, but that thing has some real charisma. Also, God help me, I like driving the Pacer.

I've always lived in the South East so never saw any long train loads of anything really. Have only ever seen UK coal trains on TV. Something I'll never see now lol.

Extra tracks are always useful. Who knows if they'll add them though. I found one mod that adds a single extra spur www.nexusmods.com/railroader/mods/154?tab=images There's another that adds more industries near there but it looks like from the screenshots that it adds some extra tracks also which might make manoeuvres a little easier. www.nexusmods.com/railroader/mods/52

@@bluewizard yeah I've been seeing a lot of modded playthrough on Hyce's and Angry Ragtimer's channel, which are really helpful. But it would be neat to see if the developers could pick up on some of those and implement in a patch. So some of those can be stable to the core game upon further game updates.

I'm running quite a few mods on this play through but I'm certainly careful adding modded track in. I do have extra crossovers here and there which helps with movements but not much else. I'm weary what would happen if an update breaks a track mod and you have locos or wagons parked on that modded track? So far broken mods have been fixed within hours of updates and game saves have continued to load even if a mod is broken so it's likely fine. So I do agree I would prefer an in-game method to add this kind of track in. Either a milestone as you say or an in game editor or something. Something that can't be broken.

I was doing it right then ;-)

It's the fictitious North Landen map

@@bluewizard OK thanks! I didn't pick that up!

Glad you're enjoying it. Was fun to do

I don't think it's that bad. There is a compromise in order to hit 60fps. You can lengthen the render distance some more. I think Ive for it set for 120% for the track with the scenery a little lower but FPS does die the longer you have it.

I don't think any of the locomotives will be happy over the next couple of eps. That recording session did not go well lol.

@@bluewizard would it be coincidental that after I watched your video I had a car jumping back against the switch that was set to connect with the rest of the train.

By watching you inherited some of my bad luck. You need someone to watch you play now so you can offload it to them lol

@@bluewizard I guess we can call it the blue wizard curse

Oh... I see. I didn't realise the mainline didn't stop there and simply presumed when any train stopped at the station the gates were opened and people were let on. Interesting they use magnets to set the signals. Great info. Cheers.

I recorded all this week videos in one session and Weds and Fri videos don't get much better. Oh well lol

That is lucky as there'll be more crashes this week to fix lol

@@bluewizard Oh dear, oh dear!

The Atlantic's one of my fav locos. It does things it shouldn't do

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@@bluewizard The new locomotive mod by RCrockin, a 2-6-6-2 mallet steam locomotive. Available on Nexus Mods. Amazing puller and would be great for Robinson Gap Coal.

Good info

Yeah... I worked it out eventially