Track Grade Maps?

[Bamaji]

Loving the game so far, however I would love to see a grade map of the line to better see what branches may have more forgiving grades for early game. Of course the logging routes are steep, but how steep? Ive unlocked the line to Bryson, and that is flat, is this the case to Slyvia also? What about west of Bryson?

[x1Heavy]

Cowee has about 1%. The branch I dont know. A Starter engine will support 12 empty bunk cars uphill and brake about 12 loads downhill. Maybe 500 ton on Connelly Branch.

The ten Pulpwood cars I have on two GP9's each for a total of 20 up and down Connelly requires a total of four GP9's in two seperate trains to safely ascend and descend the grade.

There are small hills here and there that reveal themselves when switching near Slyva. (The two mills and interchange)

Bryson to E Whitter has a couple small hills for the bridges. (Towards Gov's Island Bridge) and past Ela. Nothing of serious concern.

My mindset is for Red Marble Grade. Thats about 4.5% a SantaFE 2-10-2 can dead start a stopped thousand ton train and move it a few mph up it. (You tube video source) I plan on three of them. Or Five Gp9's One per thousand tons of train.

My post is a opinion post from experiences around the starter area of the game. Nothing that I would consider truly steep other than Connelly. I drive the AE loads down so they can take care of the fiddly braking to hold 16 mph downgrade. I cannot mouse click the braking air between the train air and independant air that fine with the mouse I have. They no longer make the Zalman Mice I depended on with my larger hands.

I have moved 1600 tons up and over Cowee both directions with two GP9's and have managed to move 1200 ton with just one GP9. I once had a berk and GP9 combination engine for really serious tonnage that did not materialize yet so I sold them off.

The developers did not yet make engines with dynamic braking which I consider important for mountain work. So its going to be air braking as much as it can stand it without burning up, running out of air or otherwise running away.

Theres also no way to use handbrakes at say 10% application of full force potential as a retainer duty yet in this game. Theres another game I use them on mountain work as full force downgrades up to 5% (Saluda comes to mind)

Really bad grades get doubled. Or even tripled. Dangerous grades down get also more trains lighter tonnage less than 1000 ton per engine.

[GHKtruc]

The track grade map is on the pinned post. See pinned answer by the devs.
You need to select the text and copy. Steam filter breaks the links

[DorniNerd]

There is a detailed grade map on the discord, but it is in multiple image sections and is hard to post.

Here is their data points:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SIMt0hibpgz5XgRSULksEIFv2CJjXnsGPYtXtIAWZQQ/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a simplified version:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1322329682061824060/1330480685391024210/image.png?ex=67975cb2&is=67960b32&hm=a6c5276e57d209c26caca1f425a08082d1dd144dd996a2d67882b8be2214fb70&