u/I_am_not_very_smart1

An integral aspect of American railroading, as we all know, is the number of cars that get absolutely obliterated at level crossings by the American (and also Canadian) railroad network. Seeing as this game advertises itself as a "simulator" it is very disappointing that they have not modelled this integral part of North American railroading. Hopefully the next game will include this important feature of rail operations.

Okay so does anyone know how far they’ll be quad tracking Lakeshore East? I can tell they’re adding a fourth track but I can’t tell how far down the line it’s going. There’s obviously track being added up to Danforth but past there I can’t tell how much will get the fourth track. It doesn’t make much sense in my mind to only have quad tracking between two stations so idk. Also, is the plan that they’re going to reintroduce express service once they get the quad tracking done?

I would love to see a route depicting the Lakeshore East line of the GO Train network. I think it would be perfect as it would allow for the obvious commuter trains between Toronto Union Station and DC Oshawa GO, but also intercity VIA Rail trains out to Oshawa, and also CN trains travelling the Kingston Sub and going along the northern bypass up to the Vaughan MacMillan yard. This way, you could get a multitude of passenger and freight trains, as well as a new Canadian route which I don't think we've gotten since the Oakville Subdivison. In terms of locomotives, it would introduce the MPI MP40PH-3C and/or MP54AC, and the Siemens Charger, neither of which have been featured as I know of. It's also my local train line and I would love to see it depicted in TSW.

I'm trying to complete the sand patch grade journey mission "Fully Fuelled" and I cannot get up the grade once it gets up past 1% grade. Eventually I got fully stopped and could not continue. When I looked back at the trailing locomotives, they were not running and were nothing but dead weight. At the start of the mission it seems to direct you to set up the locos for distributed power usage, but it does not work. Does anyone know what is going on here or how I can make the distributed power work?

So basically what is their most modern type of each equipment i.e. loco, carriage, cab car, etc?

Okay so I’m pretty enthusiastic about passenger rail in the US and Canada, and one of the biggest issues that are raised about it is that freight trains don’t give way. The explanation is always that PSR has made them too long to fit onto the sidings to allow passenger traffic to pass. My question is, if that’s the case how can two of these massive trains pass each other?