Train utility location

[[15MIN] Dodener]

Where do you guys place your water towers and maintanace buildings. Ive always placed them right outside the station, but ive noticed alot of other players and AI place it in the middle between 2 stations. Is placing it in the middle better becuase i always thought that putting in the middle will make them go slower becuase they cant go full speed the whole way.

[Havan_IronOak]

I generally place them very near my stations. On long stretches I'll occasionally add a second water tower as a sort of belt and braces thing.

One exception to that is when there are average speed challenges.
Those are only based on non-empty trains so I will sometimes create a siding that has the water and maintenance shed on a spur that is not on any main lines. Assume similar spurs at both stations A & B that have first a water tower and then further on a maintenance shed. The routes then have to be set up to go from Station A to the Station A's Maintenance shed, then to Station A, Station B, then to Station B's Maintenance shed, then back to Station B then to on to Station A This will maximize the travel speed for goods or passengers as there will be nothing aboard during the refueling spur legs of the journey. This strategy came in very handy in the Vienna Orient Express challenge.