Road to Freedom - Entrance Code

This is the code used to gain access to the Road to Freedom quest

Code

This quest asks you to follow the red 'freedom' trail, to end up in a basement facing a dial that you must rotate.

The Code:

Walking the trail from start to finish reveals this:

7 - A
4 - L
2 - A
6 - O
3 - I
5 - R
8 - D
1 - R

Converted:

1 - R
2 - A
3 - I
4 - L
5 - R
6 - O
7 - A
8 - D

-NOTE-
Some people are saying that the order doesn't matter. It probably doesnt but if your lazy just use the following template.

THE FREEDOM TRAIL BOSTON
---------1----86-----5234
-------------------------7

[Glue Eater 9K]

i m a g i n e g e t t i n g t h i s w r o n g a t a n y p o i n t

[Clovi]

Thank you, totally forgot!

[purgatori11]

I know the password is railroad but how do you do it on the door ive tryed left and right but it wont open

[Meet The Dinner]

On my first playthrough, I actually skipped the plates and figured out the password on my first try. I know some may have had trouble and the puzzle was a nice touch but damn. It's like if Obama's computer password was America.

[pharynx]

i didn't even realize each of the plates had another letter of the code on them. when i got to the puzzle i just thought about it, and spelled railroad. the only plate i got was the last one, saying which r to use first.

having railroad be the password for an organization named "the railroad" isn't very smart.

[Rodso]

to confusing why bother with code when you can just cheat your way in

[agemaner]

i got pissed and said fuck it im turning off colission

[Lars von Tryhard]

Wait a minute...
First it was driving me insane. I missed the very first plate, but I figured it out by myself.
BUT. I couldn't find the word; it's late, and I'm not a native english speaking dude. Thanks for the guide bro (I felt stupid btw.)
BUT THEN.
My "first R" WASN'T in FREEDOM, but in TRAIL.

[Syrrani]

Thanks man u saved me a lot of time and headache ^^

[^5Lewis]

Thanks. Also i just spelled railroad randomly and it worked for me.