What players can do
Run a company
At a station’s railroad office, anyone opens a company, even alone. The company keeps a till, hires the people standing nearby and buys the engine, then the cars one at a time.
Drive and fire
A real boiler in the cab: throttle, reverser, brake, fire, injector and the shovel. One player drives, another can work the fire beside him.
Coal and water
Shovel coal from the station’s pile into the tender and pull the spout of a water tower over it. By hand and free, at every station and at towers along the line.
Passengers
Players buy a ticket at the counter and take a seat in the coach. NPC passengers wait on the platform, board, and pay their fare to the company when they get off.
Freight
Contracts at the stations: crates, barrels and logs, carried piece by piece into the cars and handed in at the destination’s delivery pile.
Wear and repairs
Wheels, brakes and boiler wear out with use. Broken rails close the line until a crew repairs them, by hand or with the caboose’s workers.
Customise the engine
The owner paints the engine and tender, picks a livery for each and adds a door star, candlesticks and a toolbox on the tender.
Server trains
When no player train needs the line, the server’s own trains run a timetable between stations and sell tickets too.
The railway
- 12 stations come ready: Rhodes, Flatneck, Riggs, Wallace, Annesburg, Saint Denis, Emerald, Valentine, Heartland Oil Fields, MacFarlane’s Ranch, Armadillo and Benedict Point.
- 8 railroad offices (Rhodes, Riggs, Wallace, Annesburg, Saint Denis, Emerald, Valentine and Benedict Point): companies are opened and run there, and freight leaves from there.
- A Steamline booth on the platform of every station: trains are called and parked there, and freight contracts are taken there.
- Block signals: a train never runs into a block another train holds. The driver throws the switches from the cab.
- The train is put together from the cars the company owns, each time it is called: up to 3 cars behind the tender (passenger cars, boxcars, flatcars, in that order) and a caboose at the end.
Good to know
- No jobs to create in your framework: companies, their members and their trains are kept by the resource itself, the same way on RSG and VORP.
- One item only: the train ticket (
rco_train_ticket). - The database tables are created by the resource itself on the first start.
- Prices are in the money of the period: a company costs $20 to open, the engine $1,800, a ticket $0.10 plus $0.40 per km.
- A parked train keeps its coal, water, wear and paint for the next call.
- The game’s own random trains are turned off, so they never run into the players’ trains (
Config.DisableGameTrains). - Texts in English and Portuguese.
Next steps
Installation
Put it on the server, add the ticket item and start it in the right order.
Configuration
Stations, prices, the boiler, keys, freight, wear and the server trains.
Companies
The office, roles, the till, the catalogue and the engine’s customisation.
Driving a train
The yard, the cab, the boiler, coal and water, switches and signals.