Railroads Online! Guide - Advanced Track Laying (Tutorial)
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- A tutorial on advanced track laying including slip switches, passing loops and sidings in Railroads Online!
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Recently just watched your "first play" and after the intro where you gave the pointers now to play. I Insta bought it.
But have been laughing because my track is really wobbly. So got my notebook ready for your tips.
Don't get deterred because your track work will only get better. On my first play through I rebuilt my sawmill maybe 3-4 times, redesigned my logging camp, and now I'm on my second playthrough where I started laying track at the sawmill to establish a great foundation for a map that has great multi-player potential. So far it's just between the freight depot and sawmill but I'm taking what I've learned from the first map to redesign as needed. If you want to check it out and get an idea, you can find my map on the minizwerg site, search for "Libra"
When it comes to creating perfectly straight track, you can lay a 90, then lay your 3 ft, linking on one side of the 90 and then the opposite side and then keep going. The nice thing about this method is that you only need one crossover piece.
And that is why I like grid-based train sims.
Very limited, this is simply superior
Auran trainz
I would like maybe the option to "snap to grid" to help.. but in all honesty this is far more enjoyable. Just chill and take your time building the lines.
There is also a browser tool where you can edit your savefile and track, making it straight and adjust the curves
00:58 - making a foundation
02:53 - making a perfectly parallel track
06:57 - making a slipping junction ( from Track 1 to Track 2 ) - passing loop
12:29 - making a slipping junction ( from Track 2 to Track 1 ) - passing loop
16:55 - making a siding's ( start position )
23:24 - making siding's ( end position )
thank you
A warning regarding this method that you need to be aware of.
There is a bug that tends to strike that is the phantom track bug, it doesn't happen as often now, but using a lot of crosses seems to be a way to bring it back out of the woodworks.
What happens is, you delete the crosses and think you are done with it, however they have just turned phantom / invisible to you.
As you roll along the track to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you suddenly have a massive derail, as if there was another piece of track in there, but the track is smooth as a baby bottom.
This is also caused by super short pieces, like in Squirrel's crossover switch setup... So if you want to be safe, save often and test your track.
If you find the phantom track, report it, and then you have to spam the delete track AND groundworks and you should be rid of it... And sadly your labor as well.
I like how the first video of this I saw on this channel was the first look only to find out a few days later, you'd been streaming it
If you want to link two pieces of rail that are only a foot apart, like those switches, just click the far side first. Works every time, less stress .
Great ways to do the switches. Thanks. Greatly appreciate all who are more adept then this old guy is. Trail and error since the holiday season when I started.
I would describe railroads online as fun, relaxing, unnecessarily difficult and really janky.
I love your tutorials squirrel I started off with your ets2 tutorials keep up the good work 👍
Great tutorial, but it's a royal pain to lay track like this. Game needs updated to allow much easier track laying.
yeah ok I get you it's a game..how hard do you think the original engineers had to think to resolve issues though..personally l ike to think and not be babied through it all.
@@julianharvey6584 yeah and I'd like to not have to work a second job to play a game, just because you have the time to sink doesn't mean everyone else does. Not was anyone asking to get babies through it all.
@@julianharvey6584 They did it with land surveying tools, a lot of which are not present in the game.
I find a lot of figures such as the turnout degree and total length of the turnout are not marked making track laying needlessly frustrating when it comes to the initial planning stage.
Finally got this game for myself
[Caution, long comment: Please skip if you're not compulsively tedious]
If you'd like to be a perfectionist, I have a convenient trick for having switch legs land on the end of track that is more precise than that little bit of error introduced by the "Rule of 6" (though I still use the "Rule of 6" for my double track crossovers):
Lets say you want a right-hand switch leg to land on the end of your track
-First, starting from the open end of track, place a left-hand switch (lever side doesn't matter).
-Then, place right-hand switch on the end of that left leg.
-Punctuate with a 90-crosspiece on the end of the right leg (From above, this should mirror what you're hoping for, but with the straight legs aiming the wrong direction).
-Now, delete the switches and begin facing back at your track from the 90-xpiece.
-Place the same switches in the same order, and you will end with your desired switch with its leg perfectly lined with your original track piece (the lever side matters for this final switch). Delete the unnecessary switch and 90-xpiece helper.
Basically, this creates a parallelogram between the open rail and the 90-xpiece helper you placed that accounts for the disparity in leg length for the two switch types. This principal can then be extended for more applications like a full yard of 90-xpiece spaced tracks.
For Squirrel's example at [23:25], he could place switches like this:
-Left-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the leg.
-Right-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the straight.
-Right-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the straight.
-Right-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the leg.
Delete everything but the final 90-xpiece helper, which is now the starting point to lay everything in the exact same order (lever sides matter for these placements:
-Left-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the leg.
-Right-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the straight.
-Right-hand, with a 90-xpiece on the straight.
-Right-hand, or hand-placed gentle curve if that is your preference.
-Extend straight rails from your yard tracks into the switches you just created.
-Marvel at how much time you just spent for the modicum of satisfaction you garnered.
If you made it here, have fun you crazy Railroaders!
Seems like the building system needs some polish, in terms of helping with spacing, alignment etc.
It really does. It is on their to do list though.
The devs teased on their Discord that they have an overhaul in the early stages of testing yesterday.
The game is literally early access
@@juliet4093 Oh yeah that's right, that means you shouldn't give any feedback. Well said.
Thank you so very much for these videos!!
Could you do a video on how to construct circles? like when at a station you want to go back without shunting type of circle.
I have no problem with the concept of this music. But the fact that this music _is forced upon the player_ is enough to make me mental.
Used to watch you play DayZ back in the day and some euro truck sim even though i wasn't that into it, i was subbed but it seems the overlords at YT decided to remove you, ETS appeared in my steam achievements which reminded me of you.How you been my guy?
edit: resubbbed btw because of course
The rule of 6! The best tip ever! Thanks
Great job!! Thanks for the tips.
When you want to start a straight from previous track you do not need to place 3 x-sections, you put down one and then start building by locking the new track in both ends of this x-section.
Also, for the sidings i would recomend building them by placing the switches without a x-section between them. This is going to bring the track closer together and you can then transfer goods between cars. You can then load a long train by going back and forth with a porter with 2-4 cars transfering cargo insread of having to run back and forth to align the train with the loading ramps.
ya know when lookin the ruel of 6 isnt bad at tall cause its also the size of a basic frieght traight for gettin though a station and its just beautiful to my eye at least, lol gonna be great when my ocd kicks in
Just got this game and you just got a sub from me for a cool tutorial.....Thank you. ...Im also an avid TF2 fan so will check your gameplay out on that too.
You and Kan would work well together in this game
kAN gaming
How do you get into the Drone view you were in at the end?
Great work
You have z-randomization in your groundworks (Its not flat).
You do things the very long way around to build parallel tracks and get switches between them.
Poor management of splines with multiple splines where there should be only one (It matters by the time you have the whole map built).
Sections of tracks in a single straight going forwards and backwards (track has a direction).
The length of spline segment you use causes odd gap spacing between the ties.
I would probably lay a track. Do the 90° trick with a big distance between them.
No matter what, it will still be perfectly parallel
Crossover 90 lol. I'm not sure what it's called in the UK but here in the States we call it a diamond
Ever seen Emperor of the North Pole with Ernest Borgnine & Lee Marvin !?
You should use switches instead of th 90o crossing. Use the switch to create the parallel distance!
22:14 I did that and then made a bay for a shunting engine for the yard
Nice one.
Go into settings and trim your veg for track laying.
We really need real-time updating map, on which you can see tracks we've laid down... Would be really helpful when trying to align tracks from 15 hectars of forrests and mountains without trying to guess
Will we see another ETS 2 or ATS series like TMCN?
13:14 Sorry if I'm missing something, but couldn't you just use a switch with the control lever on the opposite side to avoid that lever confusion issue?
Your suggestion is invalid.
If you are laying parallel tracks spaced with 90-degree crossovers, the switch throw lever will conflict with other track, so you unfortunately have to place both switch levers on the same side.
Awesome tutorial in all, but I have one question. How the hell did you get to fly? I don't care about the map and such I wanna be able to see and plan
Railroads online extended. You then put your saved game into the map and you can see all your layed pieces of track and can fly with it aswell. :)
Is there going to be more MSFS 2020 content in future?
Can you revisit train simulator?
What the heck it would be much simpler if you could rotate the linking side of the switch. That way to create a paralel track you could just lay 2 switches end to end and be done with it including the switching track.
The other crucial key you missed is when laying parallel track, always start building from the SAME SIDE. The straight track isn't exactly 90°, so if you build from opposite ends, you'll be slightly off
wouldnt matter. aslong as you place a cross section at the end and another cross section parralel, repeat the process he showed at the beginning, youre fine.
This video might need a update now that the new update is out
Laying track in this game is like programming in brainf*ck. It might be possible but why would anyone do that?
could you bring back a transport fever 2 lets play?
Hey Squirrel, Landlord got an update, will you make new content for that game? :)
What If You Do This -|-\ Means An Advanced Rail Going On Through Joined 4 Rails
I miss the old splines, it took more technique.
I am sorry dude, I love your videos but right from the first track building tip I think you over complicating things. Just click on the first crosstie when you place the crossover piece and you have the same height everytime. When it is done like you say you never get the height exactly the same as the previous time because you always are a bit off. Maybe it is just me wanting to have things super perfect without any variables, but I just had to tell you. 😅
More tuts
squirrel try Expanded Production Chains mod on transport fever 2 pls!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn, this seems like one janky game... otherwise, great work Squirrel!
Gee, I really found that complicated and frustrating. I think I'll stick with TRAINZ where tracklaying is a breeze. Not only that, it's a PC Simulator with no need to play online. It's about the same price.
You can also play this solo....
The draw here is physics based steam operations - TRAINZ is a much broader scope.
That said, this is also the first version of the alpha tracklaying tools, not the finished version. Per the dev discord, a new version of tracklaying tools is actively being worked on.
What???????
Hey Squirrel. I have my PC connected to a decent HI-FI system. I have a problem. I like your videos, but the sound quality you deliver, compared to other youtube channels, is just plain horrible. Pretty please with cherry on top do something about it.
I wonder why they call railways "railroads" in this game. Never heard that expression before.
That’s an extremely common term, railroad is almost exclusively used where I’m from
In the U.S. where this is based a railway is commonly referred to as a railroad. Except, interestingly, when street running (down a street) it’s called railway.
What appalling game design to require this kind of effort to get simple rail setups.
That tracklaying system seems unnecessarily complicated to me.
If this was complicated to you I worry for you
No need, Josh. I'm saying it is more complicated than it needs to be. All of the other rail building games I've seen have much simpler and more intuitive systems for laying double track or switches.
The issue ive seen is(im drawing on TF2 cos its the only TrainSim builder ive played properly) that it does the opposite of what it should do when laying track to start with. In TF2, you have to either start from a station or create a short bit of straight track before you can start building curves whereas this is the opposite.
Yep - this is the "minimum viable for testing" solution. The devs have said they're actively working on a complete overhaul.
useless poop game dosent even look like this anyymore great content big dislike