How to Troubleshoot Train Traffic & Fix it! (Cities Skylines)

The Train Traffic in New Tealand is at a standstill - let's fix it! Enjoy :-)
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[@RazeR8023]

Congrats on yesterday's victory lad, had fun staying up all night to watch.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Thankyou 😁

[@gallendugall8913]

that was epic

[@stevengalloway8052]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines - You won, Biffa? 😳

[@taythan2523]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines great win yesterday biffa you deserved it

[@samantharichardson6956]

@@stevengalloway8052 yes he did, didn’t you watch the stream?

[@amherstburgerpicker5786]

Congratulations on your win yesterday Biffa!! Well deserved!!

[@kaelangilder178]

Happy Sunday!

[@BeeblebroxZaph]

@3:56 The Train won't pass the node, because the train in front is still in the section between nodes. To solve this make sure your nodes are spread apart enough to allow a full train, otherwise they may occupy two sections instead of one, causing the larger gaps between trains. (The nodes are where the signal gantries are, which is why the train would not proceed)

[@dontblameme11]

Congrats for yesterday winning :). Hope you have space for that trophy.

[@alaksandr5569]

Congratulations Biffa! 🎉

[@robertoprofeta6369]

I´ve noticed that u can use the node controller to control the place the trains are going to stop.

[@ropale9730]

Yes, happy for some New Tealand content! Also, congrats again for your win Biffa! 🎉🎊🍵❤️

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

😁👍

[@froggygaymer]

Biffa: Has train traffic problems Biffa: "Welcome back to New Tealand with me, Biffa. Today we're making RAILWAY ROUNDABOUTS"

[@samlukas2299]

Only problem is, in real life train-abouts are miles across. I live in the Midwest. A local silo company tried to build one to streamline things and it was a fluster cluck and a half

[@icoborg]

@@samlukas2299 there are countries smaller than the midwest

[@SirGambitRocks]

Its not like the game is particularly realalistic. I think making most rail lines one way would help a lot if he didn't start with so much rail network already built

In all honesTEA though, we need proper train junctions. When trains in different directions cross over each other, it's a recipe for trainjams

[@froggygaymer]

@ hour long railway overhaul episode 😌

[@squallloire]

Oh wow a New Tealand video on a Sunday, after the excitement of yesterday. Thank you, Biffa!

[@Dianus89]

Congrats Biffa on your amazing win! We all knew that though... You're the best!

[@aiphaitohzaiw7664]

Regarding the Y-train junctions, split one brach of the Y in to two one way tracks, and the one which would normally cross over, make it go over or under the "main" line.

[@johnboyer144]

This and train trumpets go a long way to preventing blocking oncoming train traffic, realism be damned.

[@GustavSvard]

Yes! This! If I had the skills I'd create a thing on the workshop that has a 2 track railway split into a central regular 2 track connection and single track oneway connections on the sides, and one version each that also has one of those side tracks do a nicely sloped flyover ending in a re-merged 2 track connection.

[@NomadAlly]

Why not give it a try anyways. You might surprise yourself as well as developing skill

[@srinibasroutray207]

Congrats Biffa for Redbull win. I was breathless in final round 😀

[@DaedalusYoung]

Final round was particularly chaotic.

[@KaoSBluey]

Quick question, rather that having all your intercity trains go directly into the city, why not send them to a station at the Tarantula and let the Metro deal with the passengers/traffic?

[@gaypedo4]

My GOD

[@ulisseviezzoli7939]

An advice for your next city: railway slopes shouldn't be over 1% (freght trains can't climb and brake on steeper slopes) I love your content, please don't take that as a criticism, it is just a suggestion to make it a bit more realistic

[@SirJack5885theFirst]

To be fair, the vertical scaling in Cities skylines isn't scaled the same way as the horizontal scaling. So having a slope greater than 1% is kind of necessary.

[@toddcrone7803]

We run on grades of well over 1% every day with 150 car and larger freight trains with no issues.

[@hellsop]

Yes, which makes the planning of rail and road very ... interesting. To meet a 1% slope over a road takes a 500m run (1/4 of a tile side) to get up and and the same back down to clear the 5m over a road, and twice that to clear another railway at 10m. The only way to manage that in practice is to resign oneself to either a whole lot of at-grade crossings (with heavy consequence in traffic flow) or run rails either in cuts or on embankments for most of the through-city operations and putting cargo terminals and train stations on the tops of hills or in pits. Which is exactly how it's managed most places where the community is older than the rails. If the railway were there first, there's just a lot of road flyovers (or at-grade crossings when traffic is light enough), and duplication of resources and services from one side of the rail to the other.

[@MajorHickE]

Counterpoint: commuting by rail would be wayyy more entertaining if the route was designed like a roller coaster

[@ulisseviezzoli7939]

@@toddcrone7803 well for that reason I wrote that "railway slopes *shouldn't* be over 1%" Freight trains performance dramatically drops over that, and that's the same for high speed trains (which barely go over 0.35%). In general the maximum limit is something like 4%, but of course there are exceptions considering different types of trains

[@wreckyoualways]

i think train traffic is best managed by separating your inter-city trains from your city trains. like a hub where passengers and cargo come into the city and then transfer to the local train or public transport. essentially one just keeps the inter-city trains on different tracks. lemme know what u think

[@MrKholishUmar]

Also when your city line is blockaded by traffic, your supply line is broken and the game things you need more imports, thus pumping more unwanted traffic into your city

[@teddynielsen]

That’s what I do with my city. There’s only a short section where freight trains share the tracks with my city trains.

[@TheWoblinGoblin]

Even that solution pushes limits when the city gets large enough. Essentially when you have 4-5 used cargo stations you would need more capacity at the stations themselves to serve all the traffic, at least that is my experience.

[@abebuckingham8198]

I also like to segregate cargo and passenger traffic through the busiest sections.

[@THUNDERBOLT-rv7fs]

Just sep cargo and public not int and ext

[@mbrackeva]

I think you're spawning way too much trains from outside. You can control this by using the "Optimised Outside Connection" mod and disabling dummy traffic for trains.

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

Absolutely esstial mod imho. At least until they add signalling, which I don't think they will.

[@willboler830]

Fixing trains is such a fun part of this game, although a bit aggravating. One of the techniques I use is make sure every segment can hold at least a full train, or is divisible by a full segment. It's a greatest common denominator problem.

[@whynotagain3639]

When you say segment what do you mean?

[@cf453]

Same issue as OpenTTD or Factorio. We also build "stackers" in front of stations, whether parallel or serial, to take more incoming traffic off the main line.

[@whynotagain3639]

@@cf453 stackers? What does stackers mean? I've been playing this game for years and today I learn of trains fitting one segment, but what's a segment and what's it's length? And stacker's what the f are they?

[@MrKholishUmar]

@@whynotagain3639 From what I understand, they might mean that in a train junction, the train should be able to stop without blocking the intersection for another train to pass to the other way, so any "section", i.e. parts, of the Y junction (or any other place where lines met) should be long enough to accommodate one train in full stop. And it is advisable to make another line for the train to pass through without going into a station if your station is in the main line, so you should make a line besides/parallel to the station's line for the trains that doesn't need to get into the station (for me, in my game I just usually make the station off my main line, thus avoiding any unwanted traffic).

[@whynotagain3639]

@@MrKholishUmar thanks, so stacking just means bypassing the station, I do that anyway and try to keep my cities looking realistic so I've got no single track anywhere, in real life most tracks are at least 4-6 wide, so keep mine that wide too. I'm confused at making sure it can fit in the station though, all trains are different lengths so how do ascertain the correct length for the segment? The issues I have are the very long freight trains causing the traffic, might need to completely separate it, but again that's not realistic at least not in the UK anyway.

[@peperoni3140]

The problem will always be the intersections where trains need to cross over the track going the opposite direction. Splitting the tracks into one way tracks that join into the correct side solves the problem, but take up a lot more time and space

[@lukasmax6984]

No necessarily. We already have places that have 3 pairs of straight train tracks side by side for no obvious reason. Multi level interchanges will eliminate the need of having several pairs of train tracks side by side. Edit: Also the need of having each track segment to be long enough to fit an entire train, will not be a problem any more.

[@LordofPotatos]

Hahaha I can already feel City Planners PTSD from train issues in his vanilla series

[@sazzysoultv]

When ever we get a notification on our phone saying that you posted something, both my husband and I yell out in a kiwi accent “BIFFA!!!” Ps congrats on the win!!! Can’t wait to see the vid 😁😁😁

[@ArnoModelstate]

12:45 would put the give way on the line that went straight out so the train from the cargo ga get out freely OR use 1-ways to go over so they don't even have to cross ! Just a thought, nothing more.

[@danielwilson6323]

The nuclear option would be to use one way train tracks and basically create an interchange at ever major intersection. I've found that the problems always stem from trains crossing over multiple tracks to turn off to a new route. Downside: it takes more space if you want it to look realistic (without 45 degree sloped tracks lol)

Would probably be enough to do it at the major junctions though

[@Oliver-rh5bv]

Hello there. The one larger gap may be caused by the "Do not enter junction" thing? If I remeber right this can also happen on train tracks. Maybe traffic manager can be used to solve this larger gap. It appears to happen whereever a road or track becomes a bridge.

[@dimlag]

I am coming from the future to tell you that you win for 1 point (LOL). Congrats BIFFA on your win yesterday. You are now the World Champion of Cities Skylines. It was a fun 6 hours well spent.

[@tams7128]

Hi! So i have been watching you for a long time and one thing that i seem to miss is how you get your city to look so beautiful and green and lush and BRIGHT? When i look at mine, its so "dark" in the sense that the grass is much darker and the streets are darker (looks even dirty but yours dont) and so on. Is this a nice mod that i can download as well ? Is it any specific setting that u use? Also - i know there are Themes to make the houses white. ive been looking for them as well in the Workshop but cant find the exact one you are using. Is this something you can help me with? I tried to look at old episodes to see what ive missed but cant seem to find these above 2 mods. Thanks a lot! // Your happy fan

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

All my graphics settings are detailed in the steam collection for this city, in the description 👍

[@MrKholishUmar]

You can use Daylight Classic mod to brighten things a bit

[@mujambi770]

Congrats on the Win! I made A dedicated intercity train station and it seems to have worked in my city w just 1 rail for everything.

[@stevieinselby]

I've said it before and I'll say it again ... use one-way railway tracks to create flyovers so that tracks aren't crossing over each other, this reduces conflict points and massively reduces the risk of train gridlock. Also when you remove the level crossing, it would be much more realistic to leave the railway where it was and put the road on a bridge.

[@cheezewizz2000]

I reckon the moveit mod is interfering with the trains' pathfinding. They're using nodes to calculate gaps, and if you move a node the gap size doesn't change

[@piotrczechowski5856]

plus trains stop on a node, not in between

[@wobbletread1054]

When working with train traffic try to make everything grade seperated so each train gan go to wherever it wants without crossing other traffic. Try to design your rail network like a highway with only merge in's and outs without any crossings. Use one way rails to achieve this

[@esseil]

Another solution to the trains bunching at the edge of the map is simply to use lane connectors at the last node. One track is exit only, the other is entrance only, and no more problems with two trains both trying to come in. Figured this one out when I had four inbound trains -- two at each end!

[@zoemacpherson2701]

Gotta say, that aquarium under the rail bridge reminds me of the sealife centre under the Forth Rail Bridge in Fife.

[@ArkturGaming]

If you can, have the Cargo, InterCity and inner City S-Bahn & High Speed Trains on seperated Tracks each. I did that in my largest City i build (200k) and it cleaned up my train traffic very effective.

[@vrghr]

Not used to seeing time zones outside the USA, so keep seeing "BST" and thinking "Biffa Series Time!" *GRIN* And a hearty CONGRATULATIONS for the win! Time management really cranks the stress levels up, doesn't it?

[@marktaylor6553]

I stopped playing this game because I had an unsolvable train problem. I tried to follow along with your video and solve it, and even installed the mods I need to add more outside connections in-game, but I can't SEE the edge of the map like how you have it - it just disappears into 'fog'. Any advice? NVMD - found the mod that lifts the fog.

[@justcaino9176]

Man I wish he would build roads over tracks and not tracks over roads lolz... Not the most realistic way of doing things hehe and looks better imo :)

[@rusuran11]

Biffa. Why not making the train intersections like a highway. With bridges up and over the rails. Like you always say. Keep it flowing

[@PotatoGod6969]

good for you and i mean that you always need a holiday you can take a many brakes a you need but there has to contest

[@bruh666]

That is such a great location for a cable car, exacrly where you'd see one in real life ( in a touristy area)

[@angelkaye1982]

I was watching you from the beginning in yesterday's event, until the final round. It was 4am for me then and I just simply conked out. I am sorry I missed your win, but CONGRATULATIONS nonetheless! I kept fist pumping, hee hee! I hope you post the recording of that final round!

[@samantharichardson6956]

I hate it when I’m watching a yt video in bed, then I simply just conk out and it finishes while I’m asleep and I forget where I was in the video

[@angelkaye1982]

@@johnnycajon4858 I saw you, too! Hehe! 😊I was embarrassingly "loud' at times 😅 It was great watching the chat go silent right before results for each round, and then go wild when they were announced! Biffa is well-loved!

[@angelkaye1982]

@@samantharichardson6956 even more annoying is when it's a live video and you can't watch it again 😆

[@82SonicBlue]

Yay, did not expect Biffa on a Sunday, amazing. Congrats on your win yesterday, I missed the end but caught up on the red bull stream earlier. What a fab end. Well done Biffa, deserve and extra cup of tea for that!

[@frankwybenga]

Great pitch for an event that took place in the past, Biffa! 😂 Well played yesterday, I enjoyed watching that and am glad I saw it through to the end!

[@Meejotravel]

Yeaaah finally the train / road junction is gone! Poor Biffa, I know he really liked it :)

[@kevinduliesco5468]

Hmm nice city I haven't played this game at least for a single second but yeah this game looks cool even it's 5 years old

[@Sarteth]

First thought, make that overpass railway one way to left and add another exit rail going one way to the right down to the industrial area.

[@thebestspork]

You can get more control over the "intercity" trains by drawing train lines from stations to the spawn points at the edges of the map. This functions as an internal train line but is actually bringing tourists in. That way you can control the number of trains on the line as normal. Then switch off the intercity trains option at all stations.

[@varazir]

imo trains should be handled as highways, don't make trains cross each other tracks.

[@williamholmes8339]

So much Biffa this weekend. Cant get enough! Congrats.

[@2broschillin893]

i have a challenge for you. try to make a city with no roundabouts. my current city that has no roundabouts has population of 20500 and is working greatly. hopefully you see this comment and try this challenge out.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Already done it before 😁

[@dakhelton3604]

Congratulations for yesterday winning.🦅💥 Please put the all the streams in you channel if you can.

[@PotatoGod6969]

i mean the other big island could be called that

[@Housestationlive]

i have 1 million trains coming from everywhere, no way to limit the number of trains in traffic, so i will delete some train lines unfortunately.

[@flippha]

You should use flyovers for trains: splitting in one way tracks and connect them.

[@martinandersen1849]

CONGRATULATIONS with your victory last night. It was amazing to watch - And the right tea-drinker won ... As they would say in Tea Wars - May the Tea be with you.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

👍😁

[@CompletelyCr]

And as we'd reply in the Catholic Church; And with your spirit

[@RebelRaccoon]

Congratulations on the win Biffa! 🥳

[@d9dga]

Surely if the cargo station was moved beneath the roundabout there'd be looooads of space for everyone 🤷 And also, congrats, Champ 🏅

[@wiweyplays3535]

I watched your stream and I was so happy I watched all of it

[@jackimo22]

Please fix the train fly over height. TYIA

[@PotatoGod6969]

why is the island not called Ilsa teabar

[@pineaaa]

You should try playing Mini Motorways!

[@High-Tech-Geek]

Where is your Red Bull stream from the 21st?? I could only find The Spiffing Brits' (congrats on the win, btw).

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It's unlisted at the moment 👍

[@High-Tech-Geek]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines How does this help streamers when fans actively searching for their content can't find it?

[@dasFluffy]

Since most of your train problems are simple Deadlocks and the nodes a block sections in the game, you should ensure that the next node after a junction is far enough away for the block to hold a whole train for keeping the junction unblocked. I just knew the old OpenTTD knowledge was worth something :D

[@HerrRoehrich]

For somebody who fixes other people's traffic screw ups for a living, Biffa's own train layouts are really screwed up sometimes. 😂

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

It came with the map and I've not changed them 😉

[@seculi7757]

@@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines Just put a trainstation with 2 tracks on the edge of the map, connect 1 track to the outside and 1 to the inside so passengers need to hop over to your inside network. This got rid of all the bogus empty international trains the game keeps spawning and made my railway never have a problem after again. (its like the Germans keep sending empty trains into Holland just to completely shut down the Dutch railway system.) btw if you think this is unrealistic, this is how it used to be when countries had railways on different gauges/voltages, and trains couldnt do both.

[@Myne1001]

This is why you should NEVER have your internal passenger lines cross onto out of city lines. They always clog up the system more. Ideally you should also separate your cargo & intercity passenger trains but it can be fine.

[@BeMisty]

Congrats on the win yesterday, Biffa! It was fun! Hope you're gonna do more livestreams in the (nearby) future!

[@rasmussasi1777]

Day 3 of telling Biffa I love his videos!

[@mrhedgebull1658]

Congratulations Biffa, Cities Skylines World Champion! I couldn't stay to watch the whole thing as I had to go to work but I did binge watch your stream, Spiffing Brit's stream and the Red Bull stream when I got back. I always said you'd win, though I had a wobble when you didn't win the traffic fixing challenge. Only having 30 mins to clear the traffic does add pressure.

[@XfStef]

Your inter-city trains are despawning when they reach their destinations not because it's normal but because you've made their connections just one way in or out and every connection point is meant to be BOTH in and out because it's regarded as a separate destination outside your city.

[@fotismouchourtis4765]

CONGRATS BIFFA👍🏻 FROM YOUR GREEK TEA FAN CLUB🇬🇷🫖 Your videos are one of my pleasant breaks from the daily routine and pressure of work…

[@pilzf84]

one think to consider is, that you should treat (busy) rail lines like (busy) highways: don't have left turns crossing oncoming traffic. Split them to the right and have them pass under or over the uncoming track. Doesn't fix all problems but helps a lot.

[@SoerenBruunJensen]

Congrats on the victory. You have to make a memorial ceremony in Alien Rock Park for the rocks that fell on the way to victory. And make a park with the trophy. Or is there a maker, that can recreate the trophy as a building in New Tealand??? I think that it was a competition like ‘The Great British Bake Off’ where you great builders competed under pressure. It was thrilling for us knowing spectors to watch it as a adrenaline pumped event where you had to use your skills to beat the others.

[@Tearnofear]

Was Fun watching you Guys play CS in a "competitive" Mode =) About the distance the Trains stop behind each other: Kinda sure if you take the node control Tool you could see why ;) I was wondering at wich point you'll see what the Railroads are build like. Imho its a very bad setup concidering trains. I rly like the Map, its very beautiful. But the Trains.... oh my. On my first play on the Map i ended up deleting the whole Traffic every now and then. Cause the Trains got sooo bad xD

[@ehsnils]

0:44 - I saw the first "boo boo" - you have a triangle intersection where the legs are shorter than a train length so you can get deadlocks. 6:10 - I would have disconnected the road and build a new underpass instead, rails like it when it's flat. As for external connections - I prefer to stretch them to contain a full train length and then if necessary have some one way mesh on the inside if they start to get congested so that there wouldn't be "crossover" traffic. Personally I'd lift the cable car towers on each side of the river a few steps, would not be a problem from realism perspective.

[@rexjohnfordtobias9979]

Congrats Biffa for winning the 1st Official Cityskylines Esports. You are now in the history of City Skylines... Btw. I am from Philippines... Congrats Tea! ♥️♥️

[@hubertmarkowicz]

I couldn't add my comment just after the video was released. But... I love this map. I created my own version of it by making separate train tracks /except line on the outher islands/ with export/import station at each end /thanks Flabaliki/ I fixed junctions using lane mathematics /thanks Biffa/, I fixed topografy and slopes /thanks City Planner/. After all of that nuclear power plant, water source and sewage solution. And now I'm enjoying your episodes on one screen while I'm building my city on the other. Thank you so much for inspiration to do more and more plans to expand and enjoy this game. Again.

[@zombiefacesupreme]

I'm amazed you got it to work well. In my Bizarro New Tealand, I have only used the train lines for freight, and I'm still having some issues.

[@MisterJDagger]

About your new stadium island, and the cable cars: wouldn't the cables need to be SIGNIFICANTLY taller than the boats, and not JUST ABOUT taller than the boats. The cars hang below the cables. You need the CARS themselves to be above the boat level, not just the cables.

[@ChaoticDestiny1]

I hope they fix this train bs in CS2. It sucks to have to put so much time into figuring out train traffic and nothing ever works because the game just sends way too many trains into your city.

[@KaiHenningsen]

Railways: (1) Switches too close together. Real railways use signals to keep trains from getting too close, but S:C doesn't seem to have that; without, you want enough distance between switches to hold a train, to reduce the risk of blocking. (2) Double track switches are themselves a problem: there's a crossing in there where trains from one direction can block those from the opposite direction. This is more expensive to fix: you'd need to use single one-way tracks to get one direction up and over (or down and below) to get in from the other side. (Avoid level crossings.) (3) As someone else mentioned: keep slopes down. 1% is a lot for real trains - steel on steel is slippery. Cable cars: nope, not high enough. The cable cars themselves need to pass some distance over the ships.

[@florianhofer2476]

Hey Biffa, What fixed the train issue for me on a stock map was to give the first node inside of the map (the one you were fixing with additional tracks) by simply giving the retriction that switching is not allowed. (With TMPE). Also working with one way tracks at busy junctions enhances train flow drastically as you can prevent tracks crossing each other.

[@allistairelliott]

Yup. Just to add my congratulations. Well done fella. I hope there is another RB challenge, but clearly there needs to be some tweeks. The traffic management round was just a hack really. However, it was my first e-sport support, and I got into it. Well done everyone.

[@jkrende]

When I do train intersections, I use one-way rail and bridges so the trains never have to cross over oncoming traffic, like highway interchanges. That way you never have a traffic backup going one way stopping the traffic going the other way.

[@wickedlee]

Just finished watching the Red Bull match. Congrats bud. Cheered loud enough to scare the cats when they announced your win 😂 Think you need to tell them it's Metropololopolos though.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

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[@pagjam]

1. Outside connections for train is always a pain in the ass when using 81 tile mod. 2. Reduce train budget to 75-80%. Means less trains on the tracks. 3. There are shorter comuter trains in the workshop. Helps when you have a large train network.

[@dash1dash2]

All this talk about lane mathematics for highways, but nothing for rail? Lane mathematics are wayyyy more important for rails than roads, and all the issues you're having here are because of poor lane/rail math (4 rails going into 1 and then splitting off into 4 again, come on!). C:S train stations are also pretty bad. If you look at real-world stations, they often have dozens of decks (for industries). You might want to look into better industrial train station assets because a 2 deck station will *always* create a bottleneck.

[@alienamzal477]

All of these train problems wont exist if Cities:Skyline had a proper signalling system implemented in game. It would be something I would expect from Colossal Order if they ever make C:S 2

[@carstenzimmermann4435]

A Bad hw interchange will block an area, for rail it will block the whole map! Am I the only one wondering why there are millions of road interchanges in the workshop, but hardly any for trains? Shout-out to Nicolas Blume, who's created the best ones (imho)

[@gts1664]

Excellent work on the REDBULL Challenge! It was brilliant. With the train issue why don't you do an on and off ramp like with the roads so there is no track crossing? Split the track into one way tracks then bridge over to the far side. Just an idea

[@Karonar]

I had a similar problem with my train network... Then I noticed why: 1 Station spawned a new train everytime the other left, so 1 train spawned around every 10 seconds... And they didnt despawn... :

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

I really don't know what's been up with the trains in this game, they used to work alright (even without despawning), but now for some reason they don't seem to want to..

[@dimitrikuttel7209]

Hi Biffa, Thank you for all your interesting contents. Just a question, why are you not using single track railroad to overpass the X-cross at busy junctions by connecting the track directly on the driving side? In my 500k city, I have a very extensive rail network and it works really fine until a train stay forgotten in a station due to game limits.

[@reinerjung1613]

Train problems are a real mess in Cities Skylines. Thanks for the trains leaving and entering the map. I had trouble with this in every single game and I had not found a good solutions. However, I found two fixes for inside the map: (a) Connect freight terminals with a single line in and a singe line out (at the other end). This avoids blocks in the terminal, as trains try to cross over. (b) Never connect a busy line with dual tracks. Have a point/switch on each side. One for incoming and one for outgoing trains. Also on a side note: The one train with the bigger gap, was a shorter train. The distance between trains seems (sometimes?) be governed by the maximal length of a train. As passenger trains are shorter, the gap becomes bigger.

[@jaydenmorris7877]

Idea: I want to suggest making a dedicated train tracks for the cargo and passenger trains near High Density and Popular Areas. Traffic may not be backing up then. Also can someone make a mode for Time Traffic Lights for the trains? I think traffic will look much smoother for them.

[@JMWZ_E]

At 7:33 you build a straight connection, at 8:34 you rebuild this as an overpass or flyover and let the tracks connect from the other side. The game has one-way tracks - you can build both versions so that trains in neither direction have to cross one another. Just think about this like you would think about highway connections or interchanges. Except for rail tracks not having multiple lanes most of your road skills can be applied - I'd love to see a beautiful rail trumpet. 16:38 Shouldn't these crossover points be one train length away from the edge of the map?

[@grantgistmusic]

I'm building on the same map and I found that sometimes in-bound trains would spawn at the map edge one after another with no break in between, just a constant stream of inbound trains, often on both sides of the track preventing any trains from leaving. Removing the "Optimized Outside Connections" mod stopped this from happening and I've had no problems since.

[@landonsandor591]

I know this was suggested already, and I support it, but understand it will be a HUGE amount of work, but perhaps you move the business and passenger trains to their own routes. This way, the passenger trains can just keep going and the cargo trains won't clog up the passenger rail lines. Just a thought. Keep up the great work!

[@JonatanRaven]

Why don't you do things the other way around? Instead of creating wonky-looking train bridges, you should build over- or under- passes for the roads. Also, when you do create overpasses for the rail, you should create them with one-way rail so that you avoid trains having to cross over the rail coming the other direction..

[@kirkclearidge7616]

If your having difficulty with train traffic leaving your city and not moving at all it's to do with a loading error it's when too much is leaving at the same time so to fix this issue delete one part of the track further at the end of the border and replace it so train traffic is coming into the city other side that's leaving will move but will delete automatically it's one way to clear the traffic problem ❤

[@starminecraft1]

The problem with your rail intersection is, that they all need to cross the oncoming traffic. That doesn't really make sense for high volume rails. Why don't you treat the junctions like highways? You don't put a give way sign on a highway, you will use one way ramps. Do the same for the busiest train junctions with one way rails, and small overpasses. Looking at real rail network you will see that that is how it is done

[@Thaistickthai]

I know you're the mayor but was really hoping you'd update some of those train intersections, maybe if the mod keeps the hurky jerky thing up I'll get my wish. Looking forward to the mountain top nature preserve episode!