locomotives pushing rail cars uphill?

[Raven]

Currently building a gigantic loop around the entire map and i am on a very steep part, there is no way a single locomotive can pull a 10 car train uphill, i dont want to add more trains at the front since it messes up the train stations, can i add 2-3 locomotives at the end to push the cars uphill?

[Kage Goomba]

Don't go higher than a 2M Ramp - and yeah you can add an additional engine - but make sure the incline isn't too steep.

[mackster]

You can reduce the steepness by adding a circular track that rises no more than 2m incline. This can be quite small in length but can go quite tall. Like a helter-skelter sort of thing, if you know what those fairground slides are

[Sasheria]

2M incline works. I am using that to go up (really high places) and it goes up without issue with 3 cars (my standard)

[Bobucles]

Empty freight is light, any freight is moderate, full freight is heavy. The tonnage will affect how well trains can climb slopes. If they can't climb, nothing will happen until the game gives a slow train warning on the map.

In general a 1+2 train can go pretty much anywhere on natural terrain. A 1+4 train will have trouble with the steepest slopes (2m is fine), any larger will have trouble on 2m slopes and have a lot of trouble with natural rail lines.

Extra engines will add more power to the train. I don't know if this game allows reverse trains to assist in reverse, in many titles they usually don't.

[Ryzilynt]

Whats all this about taking trains up to high locations?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3356792607

[Sasheria]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Whats all this about taking trains up to high locations?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3356792607

LOL. Mine are not that high, but I did use 2m slop to bring the train from the starting location (the plains) to the mountains north of it (pretty steep) so the train can go up and down without stalling (again, I am using 1 train + 3 car)

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

Whats all this about taking trains up to high locations?

It's been such an incredibly long time since I've actually seen the desert floor. Thanks for the nostalgia! lol

[metaph3r]

Also do not put signals on steep uphill sections. I recently had the issue that a train needed to stop and was not having enough power to roll again. I had to manually drive some trains backwards to have a long enough free track so that the train had enough momentum to get uphill again.

[Raven]

Delicate solutions isnt an option to little space but turns out that 1+2 loco's and 10 rail cars works just fine, maybe up to 80% load and speed only drops to 80km/h

no signals uphil and always flat ground after a station so trains can get up to speed.

[Lucky-E]

i gave up.... i redesigned my train station....
all fixed...
(i do the same thing... a couple trains running but i have one massive train that supplies my factories - 3 locomotives, 18 cars.... it still doesn;t like steep climbs) Since 1.0 ... i started making my main train.... a sky train- started at a height that will avoid me having to make hills.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Lucky-E:

i gave up.... i redesigned my train station....
all fixed...
(i do the same thing... a couple trains running but i have one massive train that supplies my factories - 3 locomotives, 18 cars.... it still doesn;t like steep climbs) Since 1.0 ... i started making my main train.... a sky train- started at a height that will avoid me having to make hills.

I have done the skytrainthingy in my last playthrough, instead of a long train i used 3 trains with 7 cars with there own sidetracked stations and it got its perks but i dislike floating platforms so its not an option.