Railway Empire - No Train, No Gain

[@joemorrison8772]

Unrealistic, none of the cities are named wine country.

[@McNubbys]

That came later lol🤣

[@Healermain15]

That name would be far too corny.

[@maximvsdread1610]

TheEffeteFagsHadn'tMovedToCaliforniaYet.

[@jarradscarborough7915]

"this is how it ends, not with a bang but with absolute gridlock..." everyone who saw it going this way raise a hand...

[@TheOnlyKeksSuchti]

"Right, bit of poor planning on my side" - Jon 2019

[@kylemoore3200]

And to the people who didn’t see it going this way, welcome to the channel you must be new here.

[@kaibean8046]

It’s California AND MATN.

[@sharkofjoy]

"Portland is a beer town..." Good to know that Portland has stayed true to its roots even to this day 🍻

[@missnisarang]

I really have no interest in trains. But i still get excited every time Jon posts a train-video because he gets so excited, and its adorable.

[@AnonEyeMouse]

I put it to you, Jon, that you don't love trains... you love tracks.

[@TheAdamk12]

Pro tip from a urban/rail/logistics planner. Slapping down a third track for express/bypass travel is your best friend. Alleviates a lot of scaling problems

[@PsuedoNymrod]

It's fine that you made Sacramento your capital - it is, after all, the capital of California... :-)

[@laazala]

"You're doing worse than Sacremento at this point, well just move the capital then" well....

[@jarradscarborough7915]

"but Jon! what about those passengers and all that mail that needs to travel between San Fran and Sacramento? I'm glad you asked -*voice in my head*-!!! HE HEARD MEEE!! I TALKED TO THE SCREEN AND HE HEARD ME!!! THAT NEVER WORKS BUT IT DID!!!!

[@KashouWannabe]

I think you would adore Transport Fever, Jon. I've piled hundreds of hours into that. Add in one of the "slow down time" mods so you are in each era much longer and I personally think it is the best train/commercial logistics sim ever, including TTD.

[@verdiss7487]

This video made me play Transport Fever again. See y'all in a few weeks.

[@redracerb18]

@@verdiss7487 you must make profitable passenger boats

[@crimsonharvest]

Seconded, even if modding makes it a bit of a mess if you get too ambitious.

[@superbun277]

36:49 - "Would it be worth setting up a secondary branch to bypass..." *Cites Skylines Flashbacks Intensify*

[@mothmoth4413]

Im 100% *ON BOARD* the joke he didn't know he made

[@Healermain15]

We all need to blow off some steam every now and then

[@Orosian5]

I choo choo choose you.

[@purpuradraco3747]

That's the ticket, now train yourselves to get back on track

[@noddler217]

'Which should all be simple enough, I assume'... Narrator: Dear viewer, it wasn't.

[@OriginalPiMan]

A lot of track problems are solved by always having double track; each directionally enforced. The only time to use single track is at an industry that is the end of the rail line. At cities, consider a track structure that makes all trains enter from one direction; this speeds up signalling, although it can sometimes result in longer trips.

[@PJ_TheAverageGamer]

As someone who works for a Railway company in Australia the end of this video was extremely accurate.

[@minscandboo9749]

Many A True Conductor Apparently called Doc Murphy...

[@ZefVolk]

Many A Fat Controller.

[@SChaos69]

Building a society branch via trains and train tracks and creating a working industry looks interesting, so I am glad you can do that in this game. A true masterpiece!

[@polishenglish8356]

It is so fantastically complex and beautiful! I must buy this game! Thanks for showing it to me, Jon! :)

[@Pablo-pe2rv]

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy this, but the main reason I watched until the very end was just to see a huge multiple train crash.

[@8willman]

I hate you Jon. With all of the games you showcase how can I expect to not spend my entire budget on all of them. Thanks man, thanks.

[@lou1958]

After watching your entertaining playthrough of Cities Skyline and considering my experience with railroad games, somehow I predicted the outcome of ambitious your rail line. As much as you may want to be, you are no evil robber baron. Stay golden ponyboy, the world loves you.

[@christhewritingjester3164]

I love watching you play these style of games.

[@nicholastamas372]

"Bye, San Francisco!" Oh, look! There's Matt, still lost. Bye, Matt!

[@Titan-gs6cf]

This game speaks to me on such a deep level, everything is about trains, steaks and beer.

[@CarlMarx]

Seems like a mix between Sid Meiers Railways and transport fever.

[@TigerXGame]

I still can't believe you've never played Factorio. That game would completely absorb you and we will never see you again, that's how much you'll love it.

[@TheOnlyKeksSuchti]

Yo know it is going to be good, when it's Jon playing a TRAINGAME!

[@Hartful13]

If Jon can set up signals right, you know he loves not just this game, but trains as a whole.

[@Ben-nk3cx]

I think we need to get you to play *train* simulator if whenever a *train* is in a game you get the Bob Ross happy thoughts. Also, *trains*.

[@MyGamingBacklog]

We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents...

[@carlhoellein6672]

More of this? Oh, yes, please. Thank you very much.

[@nerdiboy5128]

Fun Fact: Your capital of Sacramento got its name from Spanish Catholics, from the Spanish word for "the Sacrament; the Lord's Supper." It was named by Captain Gabriel Moraga an explorer and Mexican army officer, who was born in the Fronteras Municipality of the Mexican State of Sonora, and would be one of the foremost explorers of what was then Alta California (before America journeyed Westward Ho, Manifest Destiny and all that jazz, never mind the folks who already live there), a Mexican Territory, at least up until the years after the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, which was preceded by the Annexation of Texas in 1845 and the whole Texan War of Independence, Alamo, Davy Crockett and all that. After Mexico lost, it was forced to cede an entirety of land that still had a largely Spanish-speaking culture of people living there, who weren't just going to give up their homes because their government sold the land on which they lived. These people would then be put in the awkward position of either becoming American citizens (which not all of them wanted to do, especially considering that many of them had fought for Mexico in the war and were every bit as patriotic about their side as the Americans were of theirs) or be deported to Mexico, a move that would displace a lot of innocent people and many would die in the long march from the US to Mexico; and even once they reached Mexico, there were few free houses or businesses that could comfortably take on such vast numbers of dispossessed citizens, causing many to become homeless and either turn to begging, scab work in the mines whenever professional miners went on strike (which earned them the ire of the striking miners who would go after them and their families), or to the Oldest Profession... if you catch my drift. It was a bad time for those Mexican citizens who had formerly lived in America and were kicked out for refusing to become citizens. I just made myself sad. It started off so nice too.

[@gradybrown9301]

Oh please do more! I love trains! Watching you play this makes me want to play it

[@Uchooze]

Jon doesn't use bridges, because then the steaks are too high. Also Live stream please.

[@darthsidious6380]

$1,000,000 in 1830 is about $23,000,000 in 2017 money.

[@PobortzaPl]

Be careful around Redding, who knows how wanamingos react to trains.

[@Yorie1234]

dammit, i didn't want to buy another game. Why did you introduce me to this game‽

[@jimisparx6953]

Pro tip on avoiding that bridge cost. If you make your tracks in that straight line but break it into small 'tracklets', the computer will make that track go down the valley then back up the hill instead of trying to build a giant bridge across it! And the trip will be shorter than going around the valley!

[@Ethonoris]

Jon, if you like trains, you should play the VR game Rolling Line, which is a game where you build a model train set and then shrink down to make that train set full size and drive it around in VR.

[@geekchris105]

I'd recommend OpenTTD. It's an open source of an older game, Transport Tycoon. It's main focus is trains, but you also have shipping, roads, and aircraft. I adore it absolutely

[@jinkeloid]

Pls make this into a mini series, love this game and bought it, but I'd love to see more you playing this game

[@TheEnclaveisBased]

Train go boom

[@SirLordCustardthe10th]

More please love watching this on stream so usually watch literally hours at a time

[@Simon_Nyne]

FF8 confirmed Jon's favourite JRPG.

[@Ranger1325]

LOVE this game. More of this, please!

[@Niklas.K95]

Always i see a game like this i need a remake of "Railroad Tycoon II Platinum" A. "What happend?" B. "You're fired." A. "How?" B. "I bought 55% of your company's shares and fired you as company director" A. "How?" B. "I bought 20% first with a loan to get rich on your work and now i integrate your empire in mine" A. "Bastard!" B. "Well, just build another one. The east coast is still completely unused" A. "Black Thursday will get you anyway in nearly 2 hours" What a diamond of a game Here in europe 5€ (5,77$ i guess) on Steam [non native english speaker | any grammar related criticism will be noted but most likely ignored]

[@craigkingdon4424]

Pretty sure this is the spiritual sequel to the third one.

[@saintdane05]

I grew up with railroad Tycoon 3 and that's pretty much the experience I had.

[@Niklas.K95]

​@@craigkingdon4424 Railway Empire: only singleplayer for 50€. I got nether enough money nor time

[@Niklas.K95]

​@@saintdane05 for some strange reason we never played it. Don't know why...

[@BalthazarB2]

Don't take this the wrong way, but it would be wise to take constructive criticism to grammar, be it your native language or not. We learn from our mistakes. Now, if someone picks on you for making mistakes, that is not okay.

[@CH-ml4rz]

Totally hoping for more of this game! Stream or a short series. Whichever :)

[@TigerXGame]

"We need a bypass past Sacramento." Builds the most atrocious bypass in the world instead of simply extending the original double track on both sides of the station.

[@YT-bk9wr]

Oh Jon please I would sell me soul to see you do more of this

[@flying_horse]

instead of puting track down in parts , you can connect the places you want and adjust the curves before you click to buy

[@drworm73]

I probably would have gone for "Steaks on a Train"

[@aaronbeal2794]

Never thought I'd hear MATN say my hometown's name so many times in one video. Sacre-mintoe!

[@rolandgunslinger37]

Hilarious how English you can be sometimes Jon!! The wagon trains are for Cattle Drives, which still occur in some areas. Massive heads of Cattle being driven by Cowboys complete with wagons with all the supplies for the Men and sometimes women who were on the drive.

[@notsupposed2583]

I want more, I love the train/suppy/logistic game lp's.

[@legionwermany]

I desperately want to mod this game so I can play out all the events of the Terry Pratchett novel "raising steam"

[@sachyriel]

Oh yeah a discworld map in a train game would be amazing.

[@legionwermany]

@@sachyriel can you imagine having a campaign story with Vetinary's deadline to reach Uberwald? Trying to find a way to deal with the bandits in Querm and dwarves in the mountains.

[@katejones8705]

This is something I must check out. Looks like it's got a lot of variety, which is key for me. Anyone else get 'one way road system' flashbacks...

[@fishpop]

32:44 The John Bull is not weighed down by gravity!

[@mremma-hn6zn]

good vid my dude

[@SimonWitt]

MATN + trains. Impossible not to like that combination!

[@traviscuperus5692]

So watching this.... While playing Stellaris...... John... Your getting inside my head

[@dextercritten6167]

Jon there is a game called open ttd it is not on steam. It is the ultimate transport game.

[@MG_Steve]

To be fair, its good until you've got past turning a profit and then its too easy. Same issue with the original Transport Tycoon but no-one's fixed it. Its too easy to make money in that game, but god, I'd hate to think how many months, if not years of my life I've wasted playing either of those two games.

[@naturewort6592]

Just love the game! More this! 10 fingers up. Dont get why so simple can be so additive to watch but it is 😁

[@gkeegan2676]

Jon, cattle were moved in the 'Old West' via cattle drives. Cowboys on horses.

[@eviljackylynclone666queeno2]

Steak and beer make the world go around

[@Mamorufumio]

honestly this and transport fever are just games i plan to step in fro a few minutes and the next moment i spend 5 hours into it and i'm fighting agains tthe large number of trains on each cocking line, and the fact i keep numbering them over naming them

[@CarlMarx]

Don't play openttd

[@Mamorufumio]

nah the graphics hurt my eyes.

[@CarlMarx]

@@Mamorufumio Don't get a higher resolution sprite pack then.

[@johns4326]

Please keep this series going

[@rifflerunderhill7006]

Did you watch the Full Steam Ahead series on BBC Two? Wonderful look into the history of the rail and it's effects. I love the crew of Ruth, Peter and Alex, and their various living history documentaries.

[@Wandering1500]

We'll have to put Jon into traction after this one.

[@Romarod27]

please do a livestream of this, thanks for the always great videos.

[@kyara7032]

Who remembers when the comments were filled with romans.

[@pliniomelo6295]

Those were the days , i miss the julianus vatinius and the pig

[@fishpop]

I do not but i would definitely like some context. o_O?

[@kyara7032]

Rome total war

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Inb4 John builds a train to find the holy corpse parts

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

"...there's water right there..." In California? You'll have to forgive my skepticism.

[@tovarasulnicolaeceausescu6616]

Please do more of this.

[@TheOdst219]

I want to see a FULL PLAY THROUGH of this.

[@darkmatter100]

Two trains leave from Sacramento to San Fransico, one is carrying cows, the other is carrying mail and people. How long will it take before Jon blows them both up? This is for extra credit.

[@fireflycgi368]

Its sad that I enjoyed this, and also will there be more :P Good stuff!

[@kaptunkordan6656]

Jon makes the trains run on time?

[@ave789]

L I T E R A L L Y M U S S O L I N I

[@CommissarMitch]

2:00 Jon... You have played Red Dead Redemption.... You should know that cows are herded.

[@scarredchild]

Dang, it! I don't have the money for another game, but you make every game seem like "The best game ever!".💰🤩😭 Sooooo... Again! Again! 😁🚝🚆

[@nicholasyeto]

Can we please get more of this?

[@Gozer1]

Great video

[@ItsGoodToHangPirates]

"You put a train in... strategy, management-y, logistic sort of game" Jon just finished Stellaris and now he's already playing Victoria II??!

[@ElderonAnalas]

I think this is a neat game, If you're any good at the train systems in Open TTD then you'll be great at managing this.

[@moss-and-ash]

thought I should mention, though no one will read this, it would help significantly if you put a track change on the two tracks outside Sacramento allowing trains that are on either one to go to the other, it would help drastically

[@pennyc7833]

Have you tried Tracks, the Train Set Game? It lets you build the cities and tracks with the old wooden block style train sets. :D

[@Zach-lf9su]

You should build a central warehouse to receive all the goods and then distribute from there.

[@C.A.A93]

More of this, please Jon

[@thomasesr]

Jon, have you played old school Railroad Tycoon 2? Its awesome, and hard the way only 90s game can be.

[@jacksonbermingham2168]

i thought this might be the next railway tycoon 2 but its not selling its self to me yet. railways tycoon 2 is the best railway game i have played.. this one looks the good but maybe a little bit simple

[@guxcv5021]

i need more videos of this

[@TheIanOakley]

See John, those bridges would be a lot cheaper if you just remembered to use bridge ballast.

[@north7500]

Please do more of this on the channel

[@leep5038]

I work on the railway, literally fixing the track, the whole system is as amazing as u think

[@Allesef]

i think i could make an alright system, but it would need to be consistent across all tracks on the system and that would probably end up making it more expensive, but also more reliable.

[@stellemark96]

Please do a series of this

[@koenkoome4274]

3 minutes in. Make this a series! But please start a new game, higher difficulty and better planning

[@GrijzePilion]

You might enjoy Transport Fever as well.

[@amdasaba]

40:45 congratulation you played yourself lol

[@DJDarkDarsi]

On Train view? I'm sold, next sale I'm getting this.

[@kiwi_reddragon9212]

''21MPH bloody hell lads hold on to your hats!'' :')

[@LordHengun]

This feels like an excellent stream game.

[@Herbiesainty]

Cool drinking game: drink every time Jon says San Fransisco or Sacramento