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u/InterestingSir6557

r/trainsim r/TrainPorn r/AskCentralAsia r/Uzbekistan
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I worked 4 years as a train conductor at a hump yard — so I made a browser game about my old job

At a hump yard, nobody drives cars to their tracks. The train is shoved over a small hill, the conductor uncouples cars at the crest, and each cut rolls down by gravity onto its own track.

I did this job for 4 years at Kokand station in Uzbekistan. Now I'm a frontend dev, so I rebuilt the yard in 3D and turned it into a game: walk along the train, uncouple where the car colour changes, radio the driver to slow down before single cars.

Free, runs in the browser on desktop and mobile, no sign-up:
https://kokand-station-gorka.vercel.app/

Would love feedback — especially if anything is confusing in the first minute.

u/InterestingSir6557 — 4 days ago
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I worked as a switchman at this hump yard in Uzbekistan for two years. So I rebuilt the whole yard in the browser.

I spent two years working at Kokand classification yard — pulling cuts,

working the hump, learning the throat by heart. I could never explain the

job to anyone; photos don't show it and diagrams are worse.

So I rebuilt the yard in the browser.

The track geometry is real: every rail, switch and lead comes from

OpenStreetMap, so this is the actual station layout, not an impression

of one. What you can do:

- receive a train from one of three lines

- send it over the hump — the engine pulls the cut onto lead 44, shoves

it to the crest, and the cars roll down by gravity into the

classification tracks according to their destination

- build up a track and dispatch a train back out to the line

Kokand is a skate-braked hump: no car retarders, the cuts are slowed by

hand with brake shoes. That's modelled too.

No install, runs on a phone: https://kokand-station-gorka.vercel.app/?lang=en

It's a simplification, not a training simulator — the movement logic is

deliberately simple. But the yard is real, and if you've worked one I'd

genuinely like to know what I got wrong. There's a comment box on the page.

https://preview.redd.it/9q2s4xbo1ilh1.png?width=1917&format=png&auto=webp&s=00a518d0161b322aa408c94ba3d0d4e684379cec

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u/InterestingSir6557 — 2 months ago