Price of sand and oil

[rob]

Playing for 680 hours now and only noticed today that the price of the sand is pretty high: $2.67 per unit. Don't know how much one unit of sand weighes...

Oil is just about 70 cents more expensive.

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[A Railway Idiot]

The price of sand and oil is like that because of game play reasons, with some lore that the Derail Valley economy crashed (canon: https://youtu.be/wNqlDJ62paw?si=aPbuYxDCbDZI8aTO&t=291) with the crash likely caused by Yugoslavia breakup

[pitty3878]

Considering the steam locos don't use alot of oil it works out cheaper than running the diesels.
Sand.. no idea why that's so expensive, not like there's a shortage of it lol.

[deezel_fairy]

Bare in mind the prices are not really supposed to be realistic - its more about game balance then anything else.

[rob]

I needed a lot of sand for my own DE6 and my slug. After filling the slug with sand I saw I had to pay over 2000 dollar. That seemed to be a lot for some sand, that’s why I checked the price.

[TheLostPenguin]

Some locos IRL can hold an impressive amount of sand, since it might get used a lot.
It also has to be very dry else it can clog the tubes, so not quite any old sand will do.

[numbat]

<humour on>

Sand? Come on, sand is for wimps.........

:-)

<humour off>

[JuniorToo]

never use sand. even when raining... but it's game economics... DV soaking the player..;)