Longer Trains?

[BUBBLEGUM]

If this has been mentioned before, I haven't seen it so my apologies about that. Will there be an update in the future for longer trains with more wagons? Since I'd like to have my trains carry up to 30 or 60 not just 8..... maybe in a future update?

[Punishher_-_]

I think that they have it in road map, or i read it somewhere here on the forum. So i guess it will come to that.

[BUBBLEGUM]

@Ragnarook, I just started a new game and discovered they just added a longer trains depot! :D

What is the maximum number of wagons on a train?

And is it possible to add multiple locomotives to a train to increase the power capacity eg, for an oil train 3 locos to carry more?

[forzion]

Well, why to have three locos? Usually I see trains with one locomotive pulling more than 40 vagons in Slovakia without issues.

I think that having longer trains would cause quite a lot of issues for some people as there are plenty of them who do not know how to manage signals and their railways so a train with 8 vagons si usually a problem for an ignorant player but how much more if it would have 40?

Of course I am not against longer trains. I just share some of my ideas because loading such a long train could take ages.

[Punishher_-_]

Oh its in already? good to know, havent played since making heating over the high dense populated map, needed some rest 😄...i agree that sometimes it could be usefull to have longer trains, sometimes not..according to.the situation and commodity. I think there is double loco as part of vanilla....couple of them

[forged73]

The current version of the game has a larger depo for rail vehicles. With its help you can make much longer trains than in a small depo. About 37-40 wagons, depending on the length of the wagon. Full train length takes ~450m on the game map. Enough to make the game difficult.

[BUBBLEGUM]

@forged73 thank you

[Jolie Rouge]

Originally posted by m.dennis.me.1:

@Ragnarook, I just started a new game and discovered they just added a longer trains depot! :D

What is the maximum number of wagons on a train?

And is it possible to add multiple locomotives to a train to increase the power capacity eg, for an oil train 3 locos to carry more?

Sure you can, buy the locos, attach them to the first one and done. Coal train with two engines is around 30 cars long, container train around 20.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203231437

[BareJag]

Originally posted by forzion:

Well, why to have three locos? Usually I see trains with one locomotive pulling more than 40 vagons in Slovakia without issues.

Why not? Multiple unit control have been in use for ages, so only one driver is needed no matter the number of locos used. Using serveal small locos to pull not that heavy trains is quite common. Smaller locos with lighter axle loads are useful on smaller lines. Fever kinds of locos simplifies logistics if both light and heavy trains use the same locos. Around here 2-3 locos is quite common on train pulled by diesel-hydraulic 1000 kW locos. Occasionally single loco-trains can be seen.

[forzion]

FYI I just tested how does a long train look like to have an estimate of possible lenght for future planning. Here is a screenshot
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2203526093

The train is 3x railroad aggregate unloading long and has 2220 tons capacity which is more than the capacity of a large aggregate storage. With autopurchase of gravel it took ages to load but unloading was pretty fast. I would say that unloading at customs will take ages too.

If you want to use such trains you need to plan your railways accordingly preserving space for trains at least 3x longer as you had before.

[BareJag]

Minimum 120 tonnes of gravel long (in building mode) have worked in tests for me.

[forzion]

I do not undestand what you mean by 120 tonnes of gravel.

I need to mention that in soviet republic there were no such long trains as there are in Australia or elsewhere. In Slovakia for example as I remember the longest trains usually had about 50 vagons pulled with one or two locomotives especially in more difficult terrain. Those memories are from 1980's up to day.

[Punishher_-_]

Originally posted by forzion:

I do not undestand what you mean by 120 tonnes of gravel.

I need to mention that in soviet republic there were no such long trains as there are in Australia or elsewhere. In Slovakia for example as I remember the longest trains usually had about 50 vagons pulled with one or two locomotives especially in more difficult terrain. Those memories are from 1980's up to day.

50? i see 38 on the screen..need more? 😁

[forzion]

Yeah, that is the game not reality. Game has some limitations.

[Punishher_-_]

i can imagine to use that for crops delivery ..have circle rail around whole map...

[Punishher_-_]

Originally posted by forzion:

Yeah, that is the game not reality. Game has some limitations.

would be nice to allow players to choose how many vagons will the set have....but the speed of the set should be limited according to how much vagons and how much is really loaded