Hey everyone and welcome back to more Railroads Online! Today we are going to try something a bit silly, driving a gravity powered train! The run from the iron mine down to the smelter is mostly downhill and since we have a lot of iron to deliver I figured it would be neat to try driving nothing but a caboose all the way to the smelter!
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Bobminion
15.04.2023We failed we failed (said the troublesome trucks)
John Leparskas
12.04.2023Almost believe that the S bends bleed off some speed at the tough spots.
Over Engineer
12.04.2023Something to try: put as many switches as possible at the journey endpoints so you can always coast between them without interruptions
randomusernameCallin
12.04.2023I say try putting the caboose betweeen two cars and their breaking facing the comboos. That way you have easy access to there breaks.
Haley
12.04.2023You describe a turn as steep, you need to describe it as tight or sharp.
Sans the Skeleton
12.04.2023Idea for the mine name: Blue Sky Iron Mine
Cadet Kohr
12.04.2023Fun fact: The reason it's called a Bobber Caboose is because it's short wheel base and light weight led to it bobbing around a lot. The crews ended up naming it the Bobber Caboose and the name stuck. Some of these cabooses were actually fitted with 2-axeled trucks in place of the single fixed axel, giving them a more normal look and much more comfortable ride.
Dave Fontes
12.04.2023Have you tried the "Railroad Online Extended" mod? It's a map on the railroad you are on. I set it up as a small page in the corner of the game so I can see what is happening. You can operate locomotives (even sync multiple engines in one train), throw switches, add brakes to cars, teleport to locations, …… Love your videos
King Yakmo
12.04.2023Please do more derail valley!!!!
Jacob Ashcraft
12.04.2023You could probably take a few extra cars up when you do supply runs to the mine, then send them down individually if you can figure out a consistent brake percentage. Then you may also be able to take the cars back to the shunt yard when you do cordwood runs, although there would probably be way more cars accumulating at the smelter than you can take back when you do the cordwood runs.
Matter Daddy
12.04.2023Shunter at each industry, with shunt lines at each, end game but would work great, especiallywith multilayer. This series brought me to you, and dapper, enjoying it very much so far.
Matt Evans
10.04.2023I would hope the caboose brakes get buffed like they did with the class 70.
Michael Carter
10.04.2023Should have filled the cars the way Dapper figured out how to. Just a wee bit faster lol
cybergolem
10.04.2023is it possible to have a downhill track where you can let cars roll without a breaker ? would be hard to make i guess.
The Hobbyist Den
10.04.2023If this gravity run works, leave a porter for a shunting engine at the smelter 🙂
Julian Jorna
10.04.2023will you put out a world download of your world for others to play on
Patrik Křižan
10.04.2023Tip. Did you know you can mega fast fill iron by raising up and down you can see iron ball and it done up and down 10 time it will fill fast
Mason Kistler
10.04.2023When you “double head” (run two engines at once in the front), you need to have the faster engines as the second one. The reason you kept pulling apart was because the Eureka was too fast for the Mogul. I ran into the same problem but having my slower engine in front fixed it. Didn’t uncouple once. Hope this helps!
Gavin G. Griffon
10.04.2023I always wondered why nobody turns down the reverser in this game.
TSentinel
10.04.2023I found a neat trick to filling iron cars quickly. The iron "ball" that spawns as soon as you start to pour counts as one, so you can simply raise and lower the chute really quickly to fill the car in seconds! Not immersive, but useful for when you're playing alone.
BiggHoss
10.04.2023My granddad used to do this in the 40s
Matthew Cox
09.04.2023Seems like the Heisler could climb trees!
Blue
09.04.2023blue
Apollo Ace
09.04.2023Epic!
omegafalcon
09.04.2023Reminds of a old childhood story about a mountain shortline. Track looped around a mountain. Caboose came loose went down one way train went the other way. Engineer kept hearing people say you lost. So he speed up going down the mountain. Until he reached the yard at the bottom and saw his caboose beat him to bottom of the line. They weren't saying he lost a race but had lost his caboose.
omegafalcon
09.04.202314:26 and my only thought is kAN is training for CSX over Cowan mountain. Good thing kAN ain't transporting french fries.
Captain Donut
09.04.2023dose the game only have imperial mesurment ore the Metric to?
Bill Wiltfong
09.04.2023I agree that the refinery needs an engine shed with a porter or two, once you can afford extras.
Hexinwolf
09.04.2023Can someone please help me on my railway on Rail roads online
Is It Red? Or Maroon?
09.04.2023The entire time on the steep bit before the bridge the runaway theme was playing in my head the whole time.
RDMC Foxinator
09.04.2023for hitching the cars you no longer have to slide your cursor up or down you can just Left click for the link and right click for the pin
neb1006
08.04.2023How many engines are in this game?
Grayson Stretch
08.04.2023Ghost riding trains taken to another level
Victoria Maynard
08.04.2023fun fact back before early days of steam they ran trains from the slate/coal mines by gravity and were hauled back to the mines by horse but when steam engines came along they could do the trips faster and safer then gravity so they were banned
A.L. Brandt
08.04.2023I am playing Mario kart music lol
HeshGod183
08.04.2023A modern coal car just 1 can hold up 220000 pounds
Lord Sheriff Takari
08.04.2023it may be time to leave a Porter <Betsy> at the industries you plan to gravity run from.
as posted below, with 2 people, you can run a supply train up to the source industry with the Coal/Iron empties and once the ore/coal is loaded, send it off on a gravity run while the loco takes the now empty supply cars down to refill them and pick up the Ore cars once they've stopped post unloading.
with 3-4 people, one can drive the supply train/load & unload supplies, one can drive the Gravity run, and one for running Betsy to bring the empty ore cars back to where the supply train will pass to reconnect them and bring fuel for the loco's.
MachRacer4
08.04.2023They did that one the narrow gauge slate railways in Wales before they started using steam engines. On the Ffestiniog Railway, for example, they would have a brakeman every 4 or 5 wagons.
Sam
08.04.2023I don't think a caboose or brake van was ever designed to stop a train by itself, pretty sure its purpose was to provide provide a tension to the train whilst the engine also applied its breaks or whilst going down a hill
Eduard Lazar
08.04.2023For a gravity run, you could connect to carts brake to brake side, so you can sit in one place and controll two brakes without jumping over the cars.
Or do it with other people.
TimberPony
08.04.2023turn that car around that way you do not need to leave the brake van.
Marcel Chagnon
07.04.2023The caboose would be the home of like 5 or 6 guys. When running a gravity train, they would each stand on a different car towards the back, and one guy would be in the front coordinating the braking. He would yell back how many brakes he wanted set, and the other guys would alternate which brakes they applied to help mitigate heat.
Derpy Possum
07.04.2023the music when you were flying down the mountain was perfect 👌
had a very “fast & lose” feel to it 🙂
HaecEsneLegas
07.04.2023Am I missing something? Why not coast with the engine still connected?
Emerald Zebra
07.04.2023When you said about 4 wheels shaking more than bogeys. Look up the "Class 142 Pacer" a UK staple for 40-50 years and I used to love them! They use to shake, squeal, rock about, and even nod down the track getting nicknamed a "Nodding Donkey". It was definitely noticeable and VERY fun
Ethan Schmid
07.04.2023The Ffestiniog Railway has done something like this before. They would take an engine, normally the engine basis of Duke the lost engine from Thomas and Friends, the steam engine, Prince, and take empty slate trucks to the top of the line to a slate mine and load the trucks up. Once that’s done, a crew of workmen sit on the loaded trucks and, after the engine gives them a little push, the train races down the hill to the bottom station with the crew hanging on and maintaining speed by continuously setting the brakes on and off until they reached the bottom of the hill. It was a more efficient and faster way to get the slate to the destination. Awesome video!
imkiller84
07.04.2023That was ………….AWESOME!!!!!!
ALPHASPLASH82
07.04.2023kAN have no I told you already that the eureka is not going to haul very well if it doesn't have a proper number just give it number six it's that simple
Jett Hallam
07.04.2023I think we have the trucks is this what your trains with engines that have no brakes on so do you have a skeleton the wind I’m back to the main one which is integrated with the truck that leads to where ever I think it be cool if you made it for you kind of shut down like the one from that YouTuber that makes time is it for you
Isaiah green a og to robbers
07.04.2023kAN just have it attached onto the back right next to the booth just use the brakes on the train without the engine just have the internet attached to it why you don't use it