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Much of their popularity stems from the challenge of building large rail networks that service multiple trains travelling to disparate destinations. Doing so gracefully and efficiently takes practice and strategy, but is highly satisfying when accomplished.

Most of the engines in OpenTTD are based on real-life equivalents, just like they were in Transport Tycoon and its Deluxe version. Temperate climate trains are largely replicas of engines found in the United Kingdom, Sub-Arctic vehicles are based on Canadian counterparts, and Sub-Tropical versions derive from Central and South American carriages. Unfortunately, due to copyright considerations, the game vehicles were renamed with mysterious made-up names in Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe, and retain those fictional titles in OpenTTD. It is possible, however, to revert the names to those of their real-life models with the "Original vehicle names" NewGRF.

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It is possible for trains to crash (i.e. collide), which will destroy both trains, render the track impassable for a while, and significantly reduce your ratings at nearby stations. The solution to this is to deploy signals.

I know the title might not make sense but, I have a train going to a station to pick up goods, currently there are 500 crates goods at the station, the train can hold about 100 crates, yet when the train goes into the station it almost never loads, and when it does it's almost not even half the amount it can hold. If I set it to full load the train will just sit there for a while and not load.

One thing I didn't see in a few tutorials is an explanation about the various train stats: speed, weight, power. I'd really like to dive into the nitty gritty numbers. I'm guessing that power is important for the number of cars we're pulling, but I don't know how much horsepower translates into how much speed for how many carriages of which carriage type.

There definitely are many ways on how to view train sets, how to classify them and how to rate them. You could focus on the graphical side, which I will not consider for now in this article. You could focus on the realism part, which I consider absolutely stupid and this article should show why. Or you could focus on the way how the train set actually works and what gameplay aspects or even effects it has and ultimately what does it bring to the table when playing your game. This is what this article is going to be all about: I am going to compare a few train sets (original engines, US Train set, 2cc set, UKRS) and then I am going to show how NUTS is supposed to work in these areas.

If there are any key elements which make a newGRF fun to play, I think giving the player some choice what does he want to actually do is one of the most important ones. Choosing whether to use rather fast engine, or a slower one, gaining something, sacrificing something else, adapting your train to your network. There are two kinds of a choice that I see. First one is the spectrum of trains available you get when you play the game normally (like when you start in 1950 or earlier and upgrade engines on the fly). The other one is much more used in our conditions and that is the end-game choice. After you get all engines, it is nice when you can still decide which train to use instead of having one ultimate engine which is ultimately strong and ultimately fast, fitting for every purpose and being used always again and again. In general I just think that having the choice to do something makes a person think, thus allows for a higher skill-level development as we could call it in general in computer gaming ;).

In the end of the game, any of these mentioned engines is usable, and there even comes the combination of passenger trains. You can have slower (160/225kmh) network with pax train in it, or you can go for faster pax trains and use them with Eurostars at 289kmh or even make a separate maglev network.

As you can see, there is not much decision going on in the early ages. Luckily, it makes up for it in the end of the game as both of the faster engines are well usable. The SD110FC is awesome but just way too slow. Unfortunately there are no real passenger trains which would fit with the cargo trains on one network so you would have to use cargo trains with pax wagons. (Which is possible but imo ugly) So you automatically have to make separate networks in case you want to make both mines and cities happy.

Not just choices are the important things but as shown with original engines, it is really enjoyable if the game is active and keeps you up with new models of engines. With the way how I classed five types of trains, all of them get a newer version in a decade. Therefore you get a new engine every two years, and every ten years an engine which is surely better than the one you are currently using. So basically you could say NUTS can be expected to be five original engines aside of each other, thus providing a choice and at the same time all of the engines should be usable with some network.

There is going to be an extra engine which is not going to influence how the train actually behaves but is going to have the ability to carry cargo and look like any wagon. This would make you able to make for example a train consisting of normal engine, four wagons and this special engine. Therefore you visually get a normal 3 tile long train with one engine and five wagons. The point is that later on in the game you can turn this wagon into a normal engine and suddenly have a single engine TL3 autoreplaced to double engine TL3.

When a train reaches the signal, it looks for a free platform, and gets green light if there is a platform free.If there are no platforms free, the signal stays red and the train stops.As soon as a train has entered a platform and is free of the switching points, another train will be able to pass the points, either to enter or to leave the station.Trains only go to the depot if they are ordered to go there.

The signal setup works the same way:Trains entering or leaving the station look for a free path to go where they want.If there is a free path, the signal turns green, and the train can pass.If the path is blocked, such as if all platforms are blocked, or another train is already leaving the same direction, the train waits for the other train to clear the switching area.

This is a through-station on a line, with two platforms per direction on the line.There are one-way path signals at the exit of each platform, and one-way path signals before the switching point to select which platform to use.The signals at the platform exit are needed as otherwise the first train to enter a platform would also block the path out of the station up to the next signal.The signal after the platform breaks this path and makes sure that trains waiting in the station will not block trains from leaving the station.

This is a roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) station, with one line connecting to it.Trains entering the station come from the upper track on the right, drive around the industry, and then meet the one-way path signal protecting entry to the station platforms, on the bottom left.When there is a free platform, the train can begin entering that platform.As soon as an entering train clears the point turning in to the platform, another train will be able to select a different platform and begin entering that.

I'm not very interested in realism, I like making massive train networks that chug along like clockwork. I've tried a variety of train sets, including NUTS and all the national, maglev and vacuum tube sets I can find, but over and over again I keep running into these kinds of frustrating situations:

There are no engines of a decent speed that accept no cargo. So in a feeder network that involves towns they pick up passengers/mail everywhere, which get transferred to other stations, and I can't reliably set orders that are conditional on load percentage because trains are carrying an unknown quantity of unwanted cargo at all times.

Cargo/refitting restrictions that are so onerous there's no decently fast engine that can carry a car with a given cargo, or literally no way at all to have a single train that carries both food and wood, for instance.

In the course of setting up multiple kinds of cargo lines I find I'm forced to have to have engines with speeds that differ by a factor of 2 or more, which clogs everything up for the faster trains and makes them worthless.

At the moment I'm playing a game in the 2100s with NUTS, Finnish, Romanian, Swedish, Korean, and Dutch trains, maglev sets, a vaccum tube sets, and vehicles that never expire. My long-distance network is vacuum tubes. There are 3 engines that go 1000+ mph, but they all carry passengers so I have to organize everything to keep them hermetically sealed from passengers. And none of those fast engines accept any cars that carry wood. There's a 190 mph engine that takes a wood car. But it'd be dumb to put that on the same network.

I have an old electric train that's been stuck for quite a while. During upgrading I upgraded the electric rail station to maglev while a train was in the depot. However, the train was never "stopped" in the depot. I switched the station back to electric -- but the train is still stuck in a netherland between the depot and the station. It won't go to the station, and it won't go back into the depot either. Here's a screen shot to give you an idea of how it looks.

Notice the three two-way signals. A signal locks an entire section of track from that signal until the next signal or the end of the line. These signals define four locks, color coded on this screenshot. If the train from Lundinghattan Ridge is in the Mardingbury station, it will have a lock on the yellow section, but not on the green section. The signal nearest Mardingbury will be red, but the other two signals will be green. The train from Marbourne will be able to acquire a lock on the green section, and stop at the signal nearest Mardingbury. We have a train stand-off. Not good. ff782bc1db