> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://rust-co.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Companies > Open a railroad company, hire a crew, keep the till, buy the train and customise the engine. Trains belong to companies. Every player who wants a train opens one at a railroad office, even alone, and buys the engine and its cars with the company's money. ## Opening a company 1. Walk up to the counter of a railroad office and press **G** ("Railroad office"). 2. Without a company, the office offers **New company**: a name (3 to 32 letters), a description (up to 200) and the opening fee, \$20 from your pocket. 3. You are the owner. One company per character. ## Roles The roles only control the company. Train work is for everyone in it: anyone in the company drives its trains, shovels coal, repairs, takes freight contracts and checks tickets. | | Owner | Manager | Employee | | - | :-: | :-: | :-: | | Call and park the company's trains | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Deposit into the till | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Buy the engine and the cars | ✓ | ✓ | | | Hire people, fire employees | ✓ | ✓ | | | Fire managers, promote and demote | ✓ | | | | Take money out of the till, set the crew commission | ✓ | | | | Change the company's name and description, customise the engine | ✓ | | | | Close the company | ✓ | | | ## The office The office screen has five parts on the left: * **Till**: the company's money. Anyone deposits; the owner withdraws. Below it, the **crew commission** and the **statement**: the last 30 movements, with the reason, the date and who did it. * **Staff**: the members, who is online and their role. The owner and managers see the players standing within 10 m who have no company, and **Hire** sends them a job offer; it waits 60 seconds for an answer. * **Fleet**: the company's train, where it is (parked at a yard, on the line, in the workshop) and the wear of its wheels, brakes and boiler. The owner's **Customize** button is here. * **Catalogue**: what the company can buy. * **Company**: the name and description. The owner closes the company here; the others leave it. The company's money comes from tickets sold for its trains, the fares of NPC passengers, freight deliveries and track repairs. It goes out on purchases, repairs, customisation, commissions and withdrawals. ## The catalogue The engine comes first: a company owns one, with its tender, and it pulls everything. The cars unlock once the company owns it, and are bought one at a time. Buying the engine asks for the train's name first (1 to 24 characters). Choose it well: it can't be changed later. | | What it does | Price | | - | - | - | | Steamline | Engine and tender | \$1,800 | | Passenger car | Seats for passengers with a ticket | \$900 | | Boxcar | Covered car for crates and barrels | \$55 | | Flatcar | Open car for crates, barrels and logs | \$110 | | Caboose | The workers' car: they get off and repair the train anywhere on the line. Always the last car | \$170 | A company owns up to 12 cars. Each time the train is called, the yard screen puts it together from the cars the company owns: up to 3 behind the tender and a caboose at the end. See [Driving a train](https://rust-co.mintlify.site/rco-steamline/driving.md). ## Crew commission A share of each freight contract's pay goes from the till to the members who carried its pieces, split by how many pieces each one carried, straight into their pocket. It is 10% by default; the owner sets it from 0 to 100% under the till. A member who is offline when the contract is paid keeps nothing: his share stays in the till. ## Closing or leaving * **Close company** (owner): every train must be parked first. Nothing is sold back: the till goes to the owner's pocket and the company, its train, its cars and its members are gone. * **Leave company** (everyone else): you lose your rank. The owner cannot leave: he closes the company instead. ## Customising the engine The owner opens the customisation from the office: **Fleet**, then **Customize** on the engine. The screen fades into the **Locomotive Workshop**, a lit hall where the engine stands, always at night. Only you are there: nobody else sees you while it is open. Choosing a part turns the camera to it; drag with the mouse to look around. The engine has eight parts: | Part | What you pick | | - | - | | Locomotive paint | One of the game's 7 presets or one of 16 colours | | Locomotive front | The smokebox, chimney and metal: Graphite, Black or the body colour. Only with one of the 16 colours; the presets keep their own front | | Tender paint | The same presets and colours | | Locomotive livery | Lannahechee & Midland, Central Union, Gilded Scroll, Fine Pinstripe, Express Band, Lone Star, Outlaw, Herald or Plain | | Tender livery | The same liveries, picked apart from the engine's | | Door star | On or off | | Candlesticks | A pair of brass candlesticks beside the headlight | | Tender toolbox | A toolbox on the tender | The 16 colours: Black, Charcoal, Slate Grey, Sand, Cream, Crimson, Maroon, Tuscan Red, Chocolate, Copper, Mustard, Olive, Bottle Green, Forest Green, Navy and Royal Blue. Every change you pick goes into the **cart**, with its price. **Pay and apply** pays the cart from the company's till and paints the engine. Leaving with an unpaid cart asks first, and leaving abandons it. Taking a piece off is free. The look is saved with the engine: a train on the line changes at once, the next calls bring it back, and every player sees it. The prices are in `Config.CustomPrices` (see [Configuration](https://rust-co.mintlify.site/rco-steamline/configuration.md)). This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.