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This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process. In the meantime, if anyone's loo

This looks like a serious tool for real professionals to use. Cool! I wish they had some screenshots or videos of the process. In the meantime, if anyone's looking for gamified railroad-building (just for fun), check out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124180/Rail_Route/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/ Or several more: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#transportation--route-management https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/tre...

samsolomon 2y ago
I'd highly recommend Railway Empire (and Railway Empire 2). It's the spiritual successor to Sid Meyer's Railroads! With a fair bit more content and features. EDIT: Railway Empire 2 is actually on sale right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644320/Railway_Empire_2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644320/Railway_Empire_2/
resolutebat 2y ago
What, no Simutrans? https://www.simutrans.com/en/ https://www.simutrans.com/en/ Don't be put off by the, uhh, legacy graphics and quirky UI, like Dwarf Fortress it has the the depth of decades of development (and the learning curve isn't quite as murderous).
denysvitali 2y ago
Thanks for the links, I've just discovered Mashinky [1], which looks like OpenTTD with amazing graphics. So cool! [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/
- febusravenga 2y ago
  Oh no, I always envisioned and drewamed about 3d extension of TTD like this. Someone finally did it. I'm doomed.
- rob74 2y ago
  Whoa... this game looks realistic at first glance, with locomotives and carriages modeled on real-world counterparts, but when watching the demo video, the railfan in me immediately starts screaming "No! This is all wrong!" - the track grades are much too steep, the curves much too tight, and that one scene where two freight trains almost collide and then one of them stops dead with a few meters distance to the other one - that's not how it works! I mean, of course you can build a less realistic simulation game, I think in this case it's just the disconnect between the extremely realistic-looking trains behaving in an extremely unrealistic way that bothers me...
  - brnt 2y ago
    That's what I liked about Transport Fever: grading track correctly is important, hard, and expensive!
  - nkrisc 2y ago
    To be fair it describes itself as board game-like gameplay. The visuals are pretty but it doesn’t sound like it’s trying to be a simulator, very much a game first.
  - iamhamm 2y ago
    Run8 by Run8 Studios is what you want. I just busted 4 coupler knuckles during a boring meeting because I didn't watch my slack coming off while accelerating up a +0.10 grade :) www.run8studios.com And if you want to peak train nerd like me: raildriver.com
    - solardev 2y ago
      > And if you want to peak train nerd like me: raildriver.com This... is amazing!!
  - bionade24 2y ago
    Transport Fever 2 has a strong modding community doing virtual model railroading. There are plenty of mods improving vehicle stock, physics and procedures. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/images/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/images/ https://www.transportfever.net/ https://www.transportfever.net/
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samsolomon 2y ago

I'd highly recommend Railway Empire (and Railway Empire 2). It's the spiritual successor to Sid Meyer's Railroads! With a fair bit more content and features. EDIT: Railway Empire 2 is actually on sale right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644320/Railway_Empire_2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644320/Railway_Empire_2/

resolutebat 2y ago

What, no Simutrans? https://www.simutrans.com/en/ https://www.simutrans.com/en/ Don't be put off by the, uhh, legacy graphics and quirky UI, like Dwarf Fortress it has the the depth of decades of development (and the learning curve isn't quite as murderous).

denysvitali 2y ago

Thanks for the links, I've just discovered Mashinky [1], which looks like OpenTTD with amazing graphics. So cool! [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/598960/Mashinky/

febusravenga 2y ago
Oh no, I always envisioned and drewamed about 3d extension of TTD like this. Someone finally did it. I'm doomed.
rob74 2y ago
Whoa... this game looks realistic at first glance, with locomotives and carriages modeled on real-world counterparts, but when watching the demo video, the railfan in me immediately starts screaming "No! This is all wrong!" - the track grades are much too steep, the curves much too tight, and that one scene where two freight trains almost collide and then one of them stops dead with a few meters distance to the other one - that's not how it works! I mean, of course you can build a less realistic simulation game, I think in this case it's just the disconnect between the extremely realistic-looking trains behaving in an extremely unrealistic way that bothers me...
- brnt 2y ago
  That's what I liked about Transport Fever: grading track correctly is important, hard, and expensive!
- nkrisc 2y ago
  To be fair it describes itself as board game-like gameplay. The visuals are pretty but it doesn’t sound like it’s trying to be a simulator, very much a game first.
- iamhamm 2y ago
  Run8 by Run8 Studios is what you want. I just busted 4 coupler knuckles during a boring meeting because I didn't watch my slack coming off while accelerating up a +0.10 grade :) www.run8studios.com And if you want to peak train nerd like me: raildriver.com
  - solardev 2y ago
    > And if you want to peak train nerd like me: raildriver.com This... is amazing!!
- bionade24 2y ago
  Transport Fever 2 has a strong modding community doing virtual model railroading. There are plenty of mods improving vehicle stock, physics and procedures. https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/images/ https://steamcommunity.com/app/1066780/images/ https://www.transportfever.net/ https://www.transportfever.net/

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