Railroads Online! ep12 | The mother of all trestles

[@lakotathierauf2419]

I don't know if it's kerbo's voice, or the actual video but I literally can't bring myself to miss a single video.

[@Running-with-skizers]

If you get a geared locomotive you'll be able to build graded switchbacks and gain serious attitude up the mountains

[@AllThingsRailroad]

Awesome route to the ore mine, love the bridges and how the line hugs the mountain

[@KerboOnYT]

Thanks brotherrrrrr! ;)

[@AllThingsRailroad]

@@KerboOnYT OH YEAHHHHH

[@killman369547]

When you get to the ironworks be advised loading tools is quite janky. You'll need to elevate the track so the crane can swing the tool crates into the boxcar door. If the track were left at ground height then the crates would end up on the roof of the boxcars and not work.

[@KerboOnYT]

Thanks for the heads up. I saw Bluewizard had a heck of a time getting tools loaded

[@stacykrahn9644]

I've been watching most of your videos, I use them to give me ideas sometimes. I bought and have been using the Heisler sense the first days (it was my first purchase) based on it's weight, traction, and others. I do mountain grades at like 3% Plus, the regulator is like 12% (give or take), it isn't the fastest, but it is the Mac Truck of all engines... I recommend for all mountain trains. Worth every penny.

[@cgwheeler96]

5:08 I had a much milder thing happen to me last night. Track I’ve used since I started playing the game, for some reason my cars kept derailing on it over and over and over. I thought I was bringing wood to the iron mine before I went to bed, but the frustration of this one thing forcing me to reload a save multiple times really killed my fun for the night.

[@jamesneumann2003]

I'm glad you left the launch bug in the video, as annoying it can be, can't help but laugh at the train space program lol. The game could also do with some ambient bird noise for having so much forest.

[@KerboOnYT]

Wind and other ambient noises would definitely make the world feel more alive

[@CaptianMcSquishy]

anyone else hear that explosion sound just before the tender yeeted itself to the moon? or is it jsut the locomotive with bad gas from taco Tuesday haha

[@vegetable2139]

On a now derelict route I used to use going up to the iron mine. I took a similar route you have done now but made a gigantic trestle bridge across that ravine instead of the route you took snaking around it. While being a bit of a mess it does look really cool from afar and going across it

[@Spud607]

Im building a route on my friends server that may be a bit pointless too. I thought i would be able to build a route to the Smelter from.the Sawmill via the deep valley in the north because I thought i would get away with a shallow gradient. Although it is only 4% on one side, on the other it is 6% with a short section of 10% in the middle. It's now the bypass route since it was too hard to double track the traditional route and it's only used if there is another train on the single track section. 😂😂😂

[@travis5376]

Built a giant trestle like you did, man was that a PITA

[@KerboOnYT]

@@Spud607 10%?!?

[@Spud607]

@@KerboOnYT yeah. Its only a vew wagon lengths long so you can get over with a run up :)

[@HannoBehrens]

Kerbo, your trestle is fine. I like it. And there were trestles that were much more daring in reality. Nothing bad about a good, stable wooden bridge construction. And you see? Wood as material is there. The amount of stone for one of those long walls would be in reality some Chinese Wall event. And never forget about the wilderness. There are animals that have to pass through here or there, there are trappers or natives that have to pass through and you don't want to anger them, don't you? Much worse than an angry Indian tribe would be some spring flood coming down the mountain and meeting with your impassable stone wall. First there is a puddle then there is a pool, then there is a lake and then there is no railway anymore. Trestles are fine, Kerbo. Every trestle you set up is a pale vegan Swedish Girl crying for the trees. An under-educated Swedish girl who doesn't know that bamboo are a grass plant, not trees. More trestles! Give us trestles like there your soul is depending on it. A small stone wall here and there to make it believable from the engineering, but trestles, trestles, trestles! „Trestles! HOW DARE YOU!!!1einseins!!“ - Greta T.

[@launcesmechanist9578]

I don't have you beat on the trestle but I just finished my route from the logging camp to the sawmill and sawmill to depot so now I have a wye. My route from camp to mill is just one huge trestle that starts off even with a slight left curve, builds up into a 3% grade and right hand curve, loops around the giant hill between camp and mill, has a stone wall section at the crest of the hill, and then a -3% grade trestle going down int a left hand curve straight to the mill finishing with a flat trestle and some platform tracks to drop off logs. I put the stone wall section there as a reminder to shut off the regulator and put on some brakes. Once i get the engine plus two cars on it, physics takes over and it can quickly become a rollercoaster.

[@robertalexander9649]

Awesome trestle! A bit much hangin off the cliff but you'll fine tune it im sure. Thanks for the game volume adjustment, sound of the engine going up that 3% 👍. Ive been checking for new videos from you, cant wait to start playing. Current computer cant quite handle it and new ones still just a tower so far.

[@4thelonghaul]

I pulled 27 up to the iron mine with that engine. 5 lumber, 10 beams, and 12 logs

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

The climax actually has the most torque so it pulls a lot of cars like it's nothing the big disadvantage is it's PAINFULLY SLOW So I suggest the Heisler I pulled 12 full T2 flat cars and 3 hoppers at 20% reg up a 4° slope

[@stacykrahn9644]

The Heisler is the best mountain climbing engine so far. I use it for the mines and 3%+ no problems with full rail, beam and lumber cars... best first engine... and you can add a lot more firewood....

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

@@stacykrahn9644 dude you can likely go up 6° but IRL 1.8° is considered extreme mountain incline for trains

[@klyonsden]

I think its a little too much trestles, but I would keep it for now until you get the geared loco. Just my thoughts is all. Keep the vid's coming!

[@Roboticus_Prime_RC]

If you hold shift while working cab controls, it lets you do fine adjustments. I've also started counting wheel turns to gauge how far to pull up to unload.

[@KerboOnYT]

Cool, nice tip!

[@notmuch_23]

If it seems stupid, but it works, it's not stupid. It may be ridiculous, absurd, or even inefficient, but if it works, it is _not_ stupid!

[@Norm_MacLeod]

Nice trestle. Oddly enuf, I have never said that before to anyone, lol. Love your contrasting vids with SCUM and Railroads.

[@MrGrumpyToast]

Love the horseshoe trestle, if it were me i would have done straight across wood on the ends with metal in the middle, but thats me, love the vids

[@theworsthokage3015]

I love this series a lot but I’m looking forward to transport fever! 😍😍😊 Hope you make some good looking track

[@KerboOnYT]

Coming soon!

[@theworsthokage3015]

@@KerboOnYT this is wise from streams

[@neilharbott8394]

You could run an empty off-type car at the end of the consist, so you can easily see if you lose the tail end of the train.

[@greensplatter3480]

Try to stretch one trestle from the station to just before the huge trestle starts. Not sure how well it would work, but it might look a bit more realistic then the current trestle

[@KerboOnYT]

I tried bridging that gap several times and was never happy with the result so ended up hugging the mountain as you see here

[@Javious_Rex]

Nice route, I laid a switch in that same spot at the notch for the future option of a similar route, I just haven't built it yet.

[@mckrunchytoast2469]

I just laid almost the exact same route yesterday. Before I forget, if you ever need help with lining up cars for loading. Place ground work that's in line with the center of the cranes and stretch it under your track to the other side. With mine as long as the wheels are just on the line of stone it'll load that one and the other crane can load the car behind it.

[@indisputablefacts8507]

Given that we can only build in this game and can't blast the terrain, and that we have these hard-stops (like 3 degree inclines), there's gonna be some silly bridges. Personally, I like building my cliff-hugging bridges out of stone wall, but it's no less preposterous. I've got a suspicion the game engine will make it nigh-on-impossible for the devs to implement terrain blasting. I really like that you call out the badness in the game and praise the goodness. I too would love to see a "Shift F" to get you out of the cab without changing the controls. (And a million other keyboard shortcuts too) Recently I've learned the trick of laying out the whole line with plain old variable grade, about 2' lower than where I expect the actual line to be and use that as a scaffolding to build the actual line. Dramatically simplifies things.

[@KerboOnYT]

You should have seen all the dirt groundwork I had put down to get the trestle built, it was crazy :)

[@RJdeVries84]

I've noticed when building long bridges with a 3 degree (or any degree for that matter) incline, is when you increase and decrease (or vice versa) the grade it changes the altitude of the end dramatically, probably more towards the desired amount of degrees set initially and not about a degree over (a 3 degree is more a 4 degree bridge when build)

[@christopherharsch4352]

The scientific term (at least the term I learned when taking physics) is static friction

[@KerboOnYT]

That sounds right (college was a long time ago)

[@pothoc1]

Inertia might have been the other term you were looking for

[@TheBlackob]

The compressor not taking any steam out of your system is (from a realistic standpoint) thanks to the pop valve. If 10 units of steam are produced, and the regulator takes 5 units under full load, then 5 units will escape through the valve. If the generator takes 2 units under full load, then 3 units will leave through the valve. So either way, your consumption will be 10 units.

[@KerboOnYT]

Like I said, I tested with low boiler pressure so the pop-off wasn't in the equation

[@TheBlackob]

@@KerboOnYT Oh, Ok, I missed that part with the low pressure.

[@billyp4850]

Also, I don't think the pop off uses steam either. Only the regulator uses steam. Park a locomotive for hours with no fire in it (therefore no steam being made) and the boiler pressure remains exactly where you left it, even if the pop off is open and the compressor is running. I panicked about the Climax and Heisler not having a hand brake, but it doesn't matter as the compressor runs for free, and the boiler pressure doesn't drop unless you try and drive around.

[@aslake3848]

Heylo Mr. K. Maybe you went a little overboard, at least I were thinking, "Maybe it would be more plausible if some of it were brick... BUT :-) it looks cool... Thank you!!!

[@KerboOnYT]

It would be cool if we had more building options like brick or stone foundations

[@aslake3848]

@@KerboOnYT Yearrrhhh well, it's still early days...

[@justaguycalledjosh]

In perfect time for me waiting for a train irl.

[@LoPhatKao]

map viewer is cool :D wish something like it was in game

[@DazzerMM65]

imagine if you had to get the stone and wood and iron to make all the tracks :-)

[@MalletCNCWorks]

Love the trestle and route.

[@mr4zapp97]

I love the videos, have a great day.

[@atn_holdings]

when I'm in loco UI and starting to run out of steam, I like to just F-out and slam the brake back to open. Usually that leaves me enough momentum to keep rolling while I fuel up and then I can keep on my merry way without an issue.

[@daveb.4383]

Unfortunately all of the wheels in the game on the tracks just don't sit right except for the drive wheels and tend to do a lot of funky things if you really look at them and pay attention to them which drives me absolutely nuts sometimes. And I have found when playing the game for long periods of time a lot of the track physics mess up over time and how things interact with them for what ever reason and I end up having to shut the game down and reload a save to get everything back to normal again. But I had an interesting surprise last night on my line I had a car break away from me and run all the way down my line from the top of the Iron mine route down to the smelter without derailing so I guess I built a heck of a line to have that happen and god knows how fast that car ended up running down hill! OH MY LORD! Actually your new way of going to the mine looks pretty good but seeing how much of a perfectionist you are I should not be surprised by that. Cudo's Kurbo to your thought process and originality.

[@luisross3690]

Love these videos

[@silmarian]

"Save often..." I hyperfocused the other day and forgot to for almost two hours, and then my power went out.

[@KerboOnYT]

RIP

[@oskarcc4920]

i love your railroads videos but could you please use the Iron Bridges more often instead of the wooden bridges, it just looks way better.

[@KerboOnYT]

I much more prefer the look of the wood trestle but will try to work in some iron bridge in the future. Thanks for watching!

[@MrWookie57]

its some kind of soil glitch i had it happen over and over in one spot on my game had to delete the track soil foundation and replace it and no more space trainz

[@dishdoggiegaming7254]

That Engine gives me tons of trouble pulling cars to the Iron mine. Derails cars unhooking If I use a Porter No problems Zero.

[@TallboyDave]

Have you thought about using turntables anywhere on your network?

[@KerboOnYT]

I have a couple but so far have never used one. It's much, much quicker to turn the entire train on a balloon track

[@TheCrnic]

Do you have a video of making all that turning wooden bridge?

[@KerboOnYT]

I do not. It was hours and hours of work and I don't have time to edit that much footage down to something interesting

[@byrd203]

I have been seeing some people use a T Piece of track to do the straight transtions once connected straight they replace it with a straight piece of track to help with bridge transitions and make a transition on any corner and bridge what do you think of that idea

[@KerboOnYT]

The 90­° crossover works great for aligning straight track

[@byrd203]

@@KerboOnYT glad to here that a switch track works great in corners if you use the croner curved track that helps in corners

[@ytzpilot]

Good thing they are not charging for rail and trestles in the economy engine yet 🤣

[@KerboOnYT]

No joke!

[@DL541]

3%?? We struggle with 1% grades with 13-14000HP and 17000Tons!

[@g576758]

How do you fill the sander just got the Mogul

[@KerboOnYT]

In this video at 3:19 the dome on the left is the sand dome. Open the top of that and then fill at a sanding facility (G menu->facilities)

[@g576758]

@@KerboOnYT thanks man

[@aaniketmishra]

Does 2 locos back to back work?

[@KerboOnYT]

Yes but I play solo so would be a handful

[@EyeDewDie]

If your hobbies supersedes your real life, you have problems.

[@thundercrowz]

Hello

[@RustyITNerd]

You are way too late on the power. ;) The "secret" is to _keep_ momentum. As you just have a 3% grade the Mogul is able to pull itself out of it, but you need to have a little bit more faih in your track laying abilities and take the 30° curve on the trestle (as an example) a little bit faster or go to 100% regulator earlier. The beams and lumber is still quite easy. For me the issues startet with 10 empty(!) hoppers. If I have time, I'll make a video on that...

[@KerboOnYT]

Someone got to talking and forgot to adjust the power. I'm not pointing fingers but his name rhymes with turbo...

[@Javious_Rex]

What is this track viewer that you speak of?

[@killman369547]

Its a website where you can view the track you've laid overlaid onto the game map.

[@KerboOnYT]

Link is in the description

[@Javious_Rex]

@@KerboOnYT Thanks!

[@Nickbaileyqc]

Do you know why my game become so laggy?

[@KerboOnYT]

I don't, sorry. There's a couple spots on the map where even my beast PC starts struggling but I'm not sure why

[@Doesnt_Matter949]

You can do 2 % on it down to the mill .1 %not happening

[@NewJerseyJay]

Don't buy it... Believe me.. It Sucks!

[@thundercrowz]

Hello