Delivering Goods to the Cattle Farm for the First Time in Aurora Falls!

Hey everyone and welcome to Railroads Online! Today we are back and connecting to the cattle farm for the first time! This is a new industry to Railroads Online and it is super exciting to finally deliver products to it!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About Railroads Online!
store.steampowered.com/app/16...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#railroadsonline #kangaming

[@kANGaming]

What should we do next in Aurora Falls? Other than make money of course...

[@ducewags]

I say make more Canadian Pesos, and build a beef taco stop along the tracks. Beef lime tacos has a ring to it, maybe? Thanks for the shows KAN.

[@questionblechoices]

Gold! Get some Gold!

[@whitewolf8051]

I think you should extend to the logging camp and saw mill, just for old time sakes

[@ivator]

Play with some friends! Invite hyce or something. Love the vids Kan❤

[@VrSteamy]

First complete all the cow production. Then start with the wood production.

[@Adder6112]

Use the water well to fly so it doesn't clog up so much of your fov

[@railroadsonline]

Nice video, like always. We will have new content up from next monday, already looking forward to see you play with it.

[@FoXy-gr2hb]

What will you guys be adding?

[@Sandy_RRO]

​@@FoXy-gr2hbThe Class47, a Roundhouse, a new turntable, knuckle couplers, theodolite, bug fixes, QOL improvements and one more nice thing, but thats still a secret ;)

[@riparadis]

Wow I can’t wait to get the game this summer

[@gamerfan8445]

how about you fix your game before you add stuff.

[@FuelFire]

27:00 that's how a locomotive works. By moving the reverser closer to center, you are relying more on the expansion of the steam for speed than the amount and expansion for power. The valve travels less and cuts off the steam earlier, giving it more time to expand in the cylinder.

[@Skirakzalus]

The steam expanding has nothing to do with reaching top speed, you could also achieve that with the reverser fully pulled. Pulling back the reverser helps using up less pressure on every stroke due to the valve closing sooner. Otherwise you'd lose pressure in the steam chest because at high speeds you'd use more steam than the boiler can produce. Pulling back the reverser is more for maintaining top speed than reaching it. The game uses a completely wrong system to achieve a similar outcome so it doesn't have to simulate steam capacity, boiler output rates, or lost capacity per stroke.

[@SkorjOlafsen]

Also, the max power of the locomotive is limited by the fire. High reg at high speed would consume steam _much_ faster than you can make it. So pulling the bar back doesn't make you go faster, it lets you keep going fast. For top speed for more than just a 1 minute stunt, you need to keep the steam engine as efficient as possible, since you can only make steam so fast.

[@culdeefp4817]

Grain in boxcars is actually how it was transported, especially during the time period of RRO. You’ll see it with the big boxcars, but they’d board up the doors to stop the grain falling out. It was typical in Canada up until the 1970-80s believe, when they were phased out for grain hoppers

[@GummieI]

The way the chute looks here I am pretty sure is NOT how it worked though ;)

[@MatNichols-iz9dy]

This also happened in the US, but I think that was fased out during the 1940s

[@-slasht]

I chuckled at the remark about sanity... There's a video on YT somewhere about some steam cranes on the great lakes unloading a bulk cargo ship carrying iron ore which then leaves to take on grain. In between the ore and grain they sweep the hold with brooms, done. A dusty box car is probably the least of your cleanliness related concerns in that logistics chain :D

[@1stdaybreaker707]

@@GummieI It's probably meant to line up with the big boxcar, which boards off one door when full of grain

[@Pystro]

They should have included those boards in the model of the grain pile.

[@abeldahlin1994]

The mixture trains are so cool, and love the complexity of it. Can’t wait to see 40 plus car trains, it’ll be insane.

[@kerrymangum4166]

You could put a switch to the right (about where you cut down the trees) and curve right, transfer to a bridge running along side of your double track and install switches on the far side of the double (now triple) bridge heading back to the Freight Depot.

[@niclasmilz6603]

your double track setup looks amazing, on the cattle farm i would put a switch after the crossing on the ingoing side and connect to a switch right before the grain delivery point then you can choose wich direction you want to leave before entering.

[@Pystro]

Yup, I would also put the crossover track between the 45° crossover and the loading side. Because: Having only a single crossover track is more realistic than having both crossovers. If you're coming from the bottom (with water/grain/straw) you can turn around to go back down without going backwards. And with how much input the farm takes to produce one set of cows, this seems to be the direction that's going to be used more often. You can turn your locomotive around using the crossover track (and possibly the main line) with a train that's too long to fit into the bypass track. I don't know if this save will ever get trains _that_ long, but this option could turn locomotives around with a train stretching all the way from the unloading track around the back loop to the loading track. If you're coming in from the bottom while someone is on the loading side, you can get to the unloading side without even using the bypass track. (Not _really_ an advantage, unless the bypass track is used to store empty cars.) And conversely, if you came in through the loading side you can leave from the unloading side to the bottom. If you're coming in to unload AND load, you _could_ get to the loading side first. But after unloading, you'd have to reverse out onto the main line. So it's still better to reverse from the unloading side to the loading side. If you're coming in from the top while someone is on the unloading side, you'd have to (just as you do now) pull past both entrance tracks on the main line and reverse in through the bottom switches. But then you'd also have to reverse out in order to go back up.

[@MatNichols-iz9dy]

This is thenonly content of yours that i consistently watch

[@CULLROY]

I think one of the reasons I enjoy these episodes from Kan is all the attention he puts into the track..very satisfying to see when it's done 👍

[@Austriantrainguy]

Don´t worry about the height of the tracks too much, it doesn´t really matter. By the way the outher curve is always a bit higher than the inner one.

[@Crazyp4t]

Recommendation to fix the industry loop for the cattle: add a switch on the line coming from the freight house after the 45 cross and before the switch for the passing/holding lane and cut across to the other line and put in a switch. I think this would be the best fix with the least amount of rework.

[@Cr4sHOv3rRiD3]

38:44 Just put a switch on the exit where is loading spot going left and hook it up behind those double loading lanes and you should go back toward the depot. So, put the switch to the left in front of the locomotive at 37:18 and connect it up before the bridge on another switch after the 45 degree crossing and the switch before a loading and passing lane at 38:17. So look at the 38:09 just slap the switch exiting the grain input and go towards the 45 degree crossing, easy enough for coming back to the depot and also you will have a loop which going towards meet processing plant as well.

[@TWEEKL]

I would suggest setting up a switch to reconnect before or after the bridge for the return track to get you going back to the freight depot. That way you can keep the setup that you already have in place but a switch off if you want to continue down the main or return after unloading.

[@frankrossdeutscher]

Right where you cut the trees at 37:40 you can add a switch to branch out to the right and lead that switchoff straight towards the main where you simply rejoin the main.

[@MrMattkid]

All you need is a switch after the resource drop for the cattle farm to fix it. It's literally the most gradual of turns to get back on the main towards the freight depot. After that, the only thing you could add is a way to get in from that same part of the line on pickup side, but I don't think you'll actually need that unless you are doing back and forth cattle runs, which I don't see happening considering the resource cost for 1 cow.

[@David-gk2ml]

Do the cattle need to go anywhere other than the depot? Why bother with going two directions out of the cattle farm, ONLY go to the depot.

[@MrMattkid]

@@David-gk2ml Cattle also go to the meat processing plant

[@BotherRed]

God it looks so good to have a locomotive with varying carts

[@boris_gaming]

I wanna see more of caboose racing again, and Porter roller coaster again

[@simpinainteasy1916]

You could put a switch on your unload side of the cattle industry, and your lead track for that runs parallel to your bridge you built, and you could have your cross over before the bridge, that would help.

[@Fataussie]

With those cow ramps I don’t know if it’s just an Aussie thing but we use them to load cattle onto trucks only their made of steel not wood

[@diegokevin3824]

Your second engine should be a Shay (or whichever geared loco is cheapest) so you can have it pull a heavy train of loaded watercars up to the wheat farm, where some will be unloaded, and some will be pulled by the Moctezuma in a mixed train to the cattle farm. In the future maybe a porter as a shunter for the cattle farm, where other engines just leave their mixed wagons and just pick an entire prepared train, and the porter breaks up and unloads/loads the wagons, and prepares outbound trains.

[@daemonicone4098]

Choo choos? WOO HOO!

[@davinsmith7543]

Here's how I'd layout the track at the Cattle Farm. Right where your loop starts to swing back towards the input side, I swear I can see a little indent where you could just continue going up and eventually reconnect with the mainline like what you did with the Wheat Farm. The input side itself I'd just branch off the mainline and make it a dead end where you just have room to run around your train, which is what I’m sure they did in real life.

[@t.c.sbunch-o-stuff5907]

When I've done parallel tracks I use the 90 degree crossings to maintain alignment and spacing.

[@MrAdrianSW]

No Kan, Cow transport is done with flatbeds, and they load the cows with a cowtapult. Tossing them up and into the consist.

[@erumaaro6060]

you could add a switch to the input side of the farm (next to the grain drop off) that connects to the crossover going towards the farm with another switch. the other direction might be a bit too tight for that.

[@prestonedwards9647]

Loving this series, keep it up!

[@Niner091]

Coal link up is, as far as I know, broken. When the map first came out I could attach to it.. Glad to see I'm not the only one that can't link to it anymore! Hopefully they fix it soon!

[@OGBlackjack4701]

Hey kan I found one of the best ways to make double track and keep it consistent is to use the cross overs run a track out 50 meters place 2 crossovers connected side by side run the second one up to it delete the crossovers repeat I have found that doing this even through curves keeps the spacing pretty consistent so if you want to say come and make changes later such as like putting a Y in or something similar your gonna delete a lot less track in terms of distance

[@datguymiller]

What some railroads did in the early day is they'd stop at the top of the hills, set all car breaks on about 50% then pill thru them down the hill

[@DAKRACKEN123]

Two things. First a recommendation for the company name: the "Aurora Coast Line". "Aurora" from your temporary name (that I've grown slightly attached to) and a reference to the lovely night effects. Followed by "Coast", because this new map has a lot of hills and you've been coasting down them quite a bit. Finally ending with "Line", because a coastline is often associated with shipping and trade, and of course its a train line. Overall the Aurora Coast Line has a nice ring to it. The second thing for the cattle farm exit, you could keep it as is and then reverse coast down the hill on the main line to the last looping point you had made to realign. I'm not the greatest at track laying but I think it should work. At least it works in my head anyway lol

[@ZZeta83]

You should have a Y heading into the cattle farm. On the way out you then get to choose to go left or right for the freight depot or the cattle farm.

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

You can use 2 cross pieces to get your tracks parallel even on curves Like you did at 6:20 Here's another trick or should I say design choice When you want to make a loop around the industry, have both curves going the same direction and connecting into a switch that completes the loop start of the industry

[@ianschwind3328]

You could switch off before the bridge and connect it to the turn for the unloading track at the cattle farm

[@Skirakzalus]

The backside of the coal tower has been broken with the last "hotfix" and nothing was done about it after that. The track on there has trains fall through it so even if you could line up some track, it's no good until that gets fixed. Also cows are no option right now unless you are okay with grinding out the wheat farm a ton. You need to unlock the cattle car by reaching level 5 first.

[@zech7896]

I suggest you move tracks a bit further away from the platforms, maybe a couple meters away from the ties/sleepers on the track, cause there is going to be a time where you get bigger trains, and they aren't going to fit in those platforms because it was made for your starter trains that are much smaller. Im suggesting this because you said something about having the water just being on the edge of the ties, which is kind of a no-no for the future. Edit : another suggestion; you should follow the golden railroad rule to ensure safe operations while having other people online, which is setting switches back to the normal position before driving away from them, cause another train could go over them switches without knowing that those switches are set to go into an industry track and potentially derail.

[@JamesJessop-Love]

You could switch off the return track to the main line so you can go back to the freight depot, also great video love it

[@Lucas-dy4or]

You can view the in game wiki by pressing H, this lets you see the different freights, their selling prices, car capacities, industry production requirements etc. iirc the cattle farm takes 5 grain 5 straw and 10 water to produce 2 cows and they sell for 90 a piece

[@hemiward3917]

Hey Kan if it ain't too late for a name for the railroad how about this, the Ketchikan and Northern, the KAN

[@Jeff-uk9cu]

This is amazing

[@ur_cowboy]

put a switch right after the grain drop off shooting left to meet up with the track going into the pick up off of the main, also if you can, can you do a double main as much as you can? id really love to download your map someday when its finished and run it, your tracks look so nice

[@VrSteamy]

It would be nice to have some sort of game like this on consoles.

[@justinnielsen8756]

Really want to be able to watch all the train running grinding

[@CouchPotator]

5:00 you're not crazy. The "left" track is on the outside of the curve, so it's slightly longer than the "right" track that's on the inside. So at a given slope, it will rise more. You actually talked about this problem in the previous map, but in regards to the individual rails on steep sloping turns.

[@datguymiller]

20:25 HIGHBALL!

[@northradio4377]

Instead of the Y, I suggest making a line that connects on the feight depot side of the short bridge.

[@jeffreyblack666]

If you have the same grade, the track on the outside curve will travel a greater distance which means it will end up higher.

[@pi0neer758]

In the help menu, under "freight" you can see in each product's description for how much it sells

[@nanogamer2178]

so.. this is just a suggestion but instead of a major switch junction for the industry swap the switchback out for a switch diamond cross over that can help streamline things a little and it can lessen the time a train can foul up the main line

[@luizbag]

In Portugal, trains run on the left. But we drive our cars on the right.

[@GummieI]

The double bridge with railings on both sides does look neat though would be even better if it were possible to plug the gap between the bridges too as well

[@thestainmorephoenix8632]

Couple recommendations: 1-Water/Fuel sources at the industries to keep your locos topped up on water/fuel unless you want to risk it for the chocolate biscuit and try to make it on what you have (Fumes) 2-try connecting up to the log camp to the sawmill (have the sawmill on a branch line) and from there, you can move some logs to and fro, making some more money. And something else to keep an eye out on is on Monday, there'll be a roundhouse, where you can tuck engines away. Also, if we do get maintenance, be prepared to watch your funds just disappear. That and if you base everything around the Oahu Water Tankers. Each tanker carries six water, meaning if you have 3, that means 18 units water, so use that as a baseline. As for grain in boxcars, the Narrow Gauge had very few to use. The boxcar was more common on the Narrow Gauge.

[@alexwilliams9900]

Hey there As someone who had never played this game once. That sounds good to me.

[@Wack-o]

The coal mine rails not linking is a known bug - also, if you drive over them, the train will derail. The current workaround is laying rails on top of the coal tower rails, which is what you did.

[@DeadsTBD]

After I started watching your railroads online videos I played satisfactory and decided to use train and have a really hard time to make smooth double tracks... well I stoped playing for now and waiting for the final update to see what I'll do at the time but well xD

[@SkorjOlafsen]

For how they do double track on curves in real life: they try to avoid it for freight, or often widen the spacing when it has to be done. Freight trains push the rails around in curves, and tight spacing is asking for trouble, Of course if you do want exact spacing, you're bending the rails to where you want them to be as you lay them anyway, and you have to do it with precision to maintain the gauge.

[@theodoric4270]

I tried to come up with a company name that made sense for the Aurora Falls map, and I think I got it: the Lesser Ontario Southeast Railroad, or for short, the L.O.SE.RR.

[@Varinki]

Traditionally grain went in boxcars. Hoppers came later.

[@StixFerryMan]

You might need to make sweeping turns to serpentine up and down hills to lower the grade you have to climb. Sometimes a straight shot to your destination is not the best solution

[@kito2949]

if you are wondering how many products you need to make other products like cows, you can just press "H" in game, to open a good enough in-game guide that has that info.

[@Jeff-uk9cu]

Honestly the last time i watched this was the train car race. So much has chaged

[@KerboOnYT]

Smaller radius turnouts would be great. Maybe someday

[@MATPACKy]

first also love ur vids ive been watching for like 5 years lol

[@TheEpicDragonCat]

Grain spoils very easily which is why in this time era boxcars are used. Grain hoppers with closable lids didn’t appear until the late twentieth century.

[@QuinnBarnett]

I had a stupid idea. It was making an engine Y to turn about the engine but from one switch to 2 turn tables to have the tightest 3 point turn of a train.

[@rustyfire9927]

You should turn that track that only allows you to continue on the main into a large y.

[@padraigswiers2066]

They should add banked tracks to make tight bends more possible

[@richardmoore899]

i would say for the cattle farm treat it how you built industry with Hyce. make a shunt yard where you can build your consist next to the main with some sidings to hold cattle cars. Dont worry so much about making a loop. it doesn't always work. With your main you would probably get more space for level enty to the yard by making your bridge curve towards the cattle farm so that the main passes parallel with it.

[@TheBanksb]

37:32 switch left to near the crossing back to the main

[@zionjarman3610]

Right after the grain unload put a switch and just go out strait to the main line

[@jaydejots1674]

I would fix the coming into the cattle industry while you're fixing up the exit, it'd be easier to drop off your produce like the water and hay then go around to get the cows. If you did it the way you have it now you'd basically be travelling with a full train for a sharp turn before you'd unload. Although I see the terrain isn't exactly in your favor to make that work well without some supper sharp turns or a lot of switches, you may have to bite the bullet and put in a round table to just turn the engine around.

[@Austriantrainguy]

Something else I have to say is: Forget the loops and just build something like something like the gravity track in the co-up world but doubletracked so you can shunt the loco from one end of the train to the other.

[@subscribe_to_meowiation]

cool

[@MrClean-ed4qy]

they need to implement some rail snapping that you can turn on and off and can change the spacing

[@bjrnfrederiksson2505]

I love this episode and I believe you might need five of each "commodity) for one cow. Sadly.

[@The_Ramblers.]

600th like we making big time boys

[@carcrazy6164]

make a split on the curve to go right after the unload zone so that way you just need 2 switches. I dont know the exact set up and that land but that would wourk it think it just might not be the prettiest

[@CMWolfMagic]

Honestly still wish this had track banking, be great to see what controlled chaos could come from it

[@True_NOON]

It sacrifices pulling power because it puts more energy in keeping up the speed (wich is powering against drag) than using excess energy to pull , wich is one of the reasons why freight locos go slower , the other being higher axle load for better gripping 33:50 service pattern: Use a class 48 (large tank engine) with water bales and grain with livestock empties , and then just return dropping the livestock at the depot

[@sortius_]

Hehehe, when you were building the loop I thought it'd be better to have a Y at the end, rather than loop it.

[@FuelFire]

kAN, for a better Aurora Falls experience I would recommend moving the Railroad Express Agency to the Freight Depot (I did that on my map, and with the Water Well)

[@Skyfire_The_Goth]

Cordwood is the wood burning locomotives fuel, deliver cordwood to the fuel stops. The game no longer loads/unloads if you're not spotted right. There is no standardized direction of travel on railroads, some have a pass left to left policy, some have right to right, some just have scheduled switching to keep trains from colliding, some have stops at sidings to allow passing. So you design your railroad how you want in that regard and you'll be historically accurate.

[@andrewp6387]

Interesting that the railroad game added cows now

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Did someone say mooo 😊👋👍 kan you bring water up from the water well

[@ferky123]

Why don’t you like Phil? Also you could put a switch off one of legs of the 45° crossing that goes towards the unloading track with a switch on the unloading side. The cattle side would have to back down towards the main on the unloading side.

[@caribu0824]

@kANGaming i highly suggest you take a trip up to the gold mine just to see the elevation challenges

[@erumaaro6060]

As long as you can see the heads of the rail spikes, the trains won't derail.

[@annhinchcliff5460]

kan you can go faster than 27 on your down hill to the water mill also kan the wood facilty you got to deliver wood to make it load cordwood logs

[@GCG177]

You could add telegram boxes on each switch to make it easier to set up a track?

[@Dust76tr]

If the company name hasn’t already been decided, my suggestion is “kAn’s Logistics & Independent Transport” or “kLIT” for short. Perfect for if you can’t find any of your engines or cars too 🤣🤣

[@day5660]

Couldn't you have filled the tender with water at the well? also, i could be incorrect, but i think even countries with left hand travel for vehicles, trains often use right hand travel, with exceptions, and some oddities within some countries where the travel side is opposite of the rest of the country, as well as both sides being used for travel.

[@Naro_Rivers]

Perhaps put down a turntable and runaround instead of a wye to save space.

[@Berserk_Loon]

track not connecting to the coal tower is a known bug will be fixed in next release

[@thetoilet2033]

Where can i find the spreadsheat you r using to see how much pounds the locos can pull on what percentage

[@jeffreyblack666]

Can you use the water well to fill up the locomotive/tender?

[@obscuresum51thegamer12]

Couldn’t you add a switch going back to the main heading towards the farm and the starting depo

[@shadowslayer552]

They really need to draw the rails on the map. and have signs. kinda silly that they havent

[@Austriantrainguy]

Company name: Texas-Highland-Industries Cargo Company (THICC)

[@miguelrodrigues8374]

Where is Hyce? I miss u guys playing together

[@boomeraus0073]

Been told that there is a bug this update with the coal tower, i guess that's the bug? Not seen the problem myself but just passing what i've been told from another KZbinr.

[@charleshax]

Save up for a Glenbrook or Tenmile