Working Alarka | Railroader S1E20

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@talis84 10 ай бұрын

"And it's my railroad" love it. Play how you want to play. I never understood commenters telling people to play this way or that. Good job as always Kerbo. Glad I can start my mornings with a relaxing gaming video instead of highway traffic.

@jaylafountain8164 10 ай бұрын

It's a good attitude to have because you can't please everyone, so do what you like and that will probably please some people!

@neilharbott8394 10 ай бұрын

In the early days, when (at best) cars only had handbrakes, you had no option but to use the locomotive brakes. Steep hills, the guard would walk down the train and set the handbrakes, to help hold the load. In the UK, the guards vans (caboose), had a red light to the rear, and white lights on the side pointing forwards - that way the driver could look back, and if he couldn't see the white lights, he'd lost part of the train!!

@SilentVillainPro 10 ай бұрын

Bailing off the independent with every application of the brake pipe does 2 things. 1st, it saves wear and tear on the locomotive brakes. Depending on the age of the locomotive, the brake shoes on the drivers are big and expensive. The tender brakes may be the same shoes a regular car has though. 2nd, it either keeps the train in draft or buff. With a train stretched out, draft, the locomotive setting up with the train brakes tends to brake much faster than the cars. This causes the locomotive to run into the cars and buff forces are created, running in the slack. As soon as you accelerate it would start to run out the slack and create an uneven or unpleasant ride and with excessive draft forces you can string line in a curve. If you are shoving and have all the slack run in, buff, when you make a reduction and the loco brakes set, same as above but the loco snaps back starting to run the slack out. You apply power and release the brakes and you have to run the slack back in, again creating an uneven or unpleasant ride and with excessive buff forces can jackknife or buckle a train. Utilizing the bail feature saves brake shoes on the loco and keeps your slack run in or out and can prevent derailments.

@Loc0motive 10 ай бұрын

Really enjoying the Railroader series. In addition to the ties/rail creaking sounds it would be cool if they had a few freight cars with flat spot sounds.

@athomasmay 10 ай бұрын

Been looking forward to another Railroader video from you. It doesn't disappoint. 25:55 'Back forward, sir' he say's, lol. As far as the bailoff, first a caveat. I am not an expert. I don't run trains in real life. This is what I've gleaned from other sources over the years. You would bail the locomotive brakes off whenever you brake the train. Whether thats coming down grade or braking for a stop. The reason being, if you brake the locomotive, there is a likely chance of... essentially running the rest of the train into it, giving the crew a good knocking about and potentially derailing the tender or loco. You'd bail the brakes off to keep it free floating and, to all intents and purposes, keep it on the rails. Or, as I've found you bail off to keep slack from developing in the consist.

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

I bail out of habit in Run 8, but haven't picked up the muscle memory yet in Railroader

@athomasmay 10 ай бұрын

@@KerboOnYT I bail a lot in Railroader, but that usually means my human has fallen out of the cab or somesuch... ;)

@Roboticus_Prime_RC 10 ай бұрын

I do like the deep whistles better. There is historical precedent of Engineers having their own whistles to put on the engine they were running.

@Synchro-Mesh 10 ай бұрын

Just a heads up at Nantahala it's VERY steep you will need some power to get up it

@Flashiny 10 ай бұрын

I picked the southern 3 chime for my passenger trains and the reading 6 for my freight engines because that’s what I liked lol

@MrWookie57 10 ай бұрын

After getting 5 locos in the single player career I’m really unable to run trains myself had to change the time speed to 1:1 to make all the pickups and drop offs on time verry addicting game takes me almost 8 hours to go through just 1 day anymore kinda worried about expanding past alarka and only playing single player and not being able to do everything lol ….

@WalterAttack69 10 ай бұрын

Congrats on 18k!!!!

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

Thank you

@dougbock5599 10 ай бұрын

My last play thru. 3 of my engine ran out of coal and water while going up to alaraka jct. which made me purchase a big engine just to get up to alarake and finish the job. One of those engines was the one attached to my passenger train. Ugh!! But I’m almost got alarka and will have an engine for that and my beast will be my freight. I do which alarka jct had water

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

It's a bit of a pain having no water near the coal mine

@hammeredbarnacle 10 ай бұрын

Stop being happy with the game Kerbo! You're supposed to be like the obnoxious vocal minority and bash on it for not being the game they think it should be! How dare you enjoy it for what it is rather than being pissed about what it isn't! It's a great game and I look forward to seeing how it evolves moving forward.

@maxartemas5995 10 ай бұрын

It's my railroad, and I'll run my passenger trains as if they're DMUs as I please!

@Javious_Rex 10 ай бұрын

At 18:45 you had no engine brake and the single car brake wasn't enough to stop the loco rolling down hill.

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

The brakes are weird. Sometimes they seem to have far too much power and other times, like here, they don't seem to do much

@fredpryde8555 10 ай бұрын

another great video for me to learn off on the game

@TheMadness51 10 ай бұрын

I'm sitting switching out Silva and the placard over the car won't go translucent. I'm yelling at my screen, you'll take the cars I give ya! And my wife says she hears "oops" alot while I'm playing. Usually forgetting to move the points. And spicy coupling is the way.

@Banquet... 10 ай бұрын

I'm tempted to get this. Can you explain how the AI works. Can I pick up jobs and get the AI to do the driving while I do whatever... change the points, count the money....? Can you have the AI drive and just chill out and watch? Can you be driving one train while the AI drives another? So many questions! :)

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

Bear in mind this is early access and things will change. Right now the AI is simple and has 2 modes, road and yard. In road mode the AI will drive forward or reverse at a max speed you set. That speed will be overridden by track limits. The AI will stop for another train in the way, signals, fusees, end of track, and switches thrown against them. In yard mode it's similar but instead of max speed you tell the AI how many car lengths to move. They are also aware of other cars/trains and will try to couple and then stop. The devs have shown a work in progress waypoint system and passenger train AI is on the roadmap, so more is to come. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!

@Banquet... 10 ай бұрын

@@KerboOnYT Thanks, that does help. Do you find the AI is useful at times?

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

@@Banquet... Yes, as you can see in the series I use it extensively

@Banquet... 10 ай бұрын

@@KerboOnYT Thanks I'm working my way through your series. About to watch video 3. It will be interesting to get to that part.

@Zombie_Love 10 ай бұрын

Hey Kerbo, love the content, do you know about how all the controls and reverser works? I can tell you. 😁✌

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

Wait, there are controls?!?

@Zombie_Love 10 ай бұрын

😅@@KerboOnYT

@Tattman 10 ай бұрын

What is it that shows you the grade of the track when moused over it? Never mind you showed it at the end.. lol,,, Great vid..

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

Hold Shift+?

@RSOFT92 8 ай бұрын

For all readers with "QWERTZ"-Layout on their Keyboard: It's RShift + - (Right Shift and the Minus or "Bindestrich"-Key directly next to it).

@jiggyjim4098 10 ай бұрын

Curious to see, unless I missed it somewhere, how do you handle the passenger runs after the Alarka Jnct Y? It seems to me that sending 2 cars each way is the way to go, but I can't justify 2 engines. Even the smallest engines are overkill and financially makes no sense. Maybe my issue is my OCD wants to run the entire length every day round trip. Thoughts? I'm on day 25 or 26 and up until now I have been completing every task each day before I shut down for the night, but to be honest, its getting rough now that I have all the extra miles.

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

I haven't yet expanded west of Alarka Jct so that's a problem for another day

@warmstrong5612 10 ай бұрын

Could run them as mixed trains when you have one or two cars that need to go a fair distance.

@jiggyjim4098 10 ай бұрын

@@warmstrong5612 right now that looks to be my plan. Once the industries on each side of the "Y" start getting busier and busier, that may change, but yeah, mixed is the plan for now.

@billpaine6241 10 ай бұрын

I’m curious why you haven’t installed the signal upgrades. Not criticizing the choice, just curious if you prefer it without or have some master plan going or whatever. As a single player, I find using CTC handy (although there are a few quirky things with them).

@KerboOnYT 10 ай бұрын

At this stage I don't really have much through traffic. There's the one passenger train and the one mine run. Buying the signals wouldn't add much value for me right now. Once I expand more I expect it to be useful. Thanks for watching!