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My Lovely Horse Train Set

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Standard Gauge

General Purpose / Express Engines

  • Passengers, mail and valuables
  • High-priority freight cargos like food and engineering supplies, which can be carried in high-speed mail cars and express cars
  • General freight, but if a dedicated freight engine is available with similar power, the freight engine will generally be lower cost, and higher performance
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
General Purpose / Express
General Purpose / Express Joker
General Purpose / Express Joker
General Purpose / Express
General Purpose / Express Joker
Heavy General Purpose / Express
Heavy General Purpose / Express Joker
Heavy General Purpose / Express Joker
Heavy General Purpose / Express
Heavy General Purpose / Express Joker
Super Heavy General Purpose / Express
Super Heavy General Purpose / Express Joker
Super Heavy General Purpose / Express
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Passenger Driving Cab Joker
Mail Driving Cab Joker
Driving Cab Joker

Freight Engines

Recommended for all general freight except cargos like food and engineering supplies, which can be carried in high-speed mail cars and express cars, which freight engines can't haul at maximum speed.

Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Freight
Freight Joker
Freight
Freight
Freight Joker
Heavy Freight
Heavy Freight Joker
Heavy Freight
Heavy Freight Joker
Super Heavy Freight
Super Heavy Freight Joker
Super Heavy Freight

Railcars / Multiple-Unit Trains

  • These run at the speed of freight trains, and are suited to
    • short routes
    • routes which are heavily used by freight trains, which limit the maximum speed of other trains on the route
  • Railcars can generally haul one additional unpowered coach, mail car or other wagon, on level routes
  • Railcars can be combined as needed
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Mail Railcar
Mail Railcar Joker
Mail Railcar
Passenger Railbus Joker
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Passenger Railcar High Capacity Suburban
Passenger Railcar High Capacity Suburban

Express Railcars / Multiple-Unit Trains

  • These run at express train speeds, and have more power but lower capacity than standard railcars
  • Express railcars can be combined as needed
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Passenger Railcar General Purpose / Express Joker

High-Speed Trains

  • high-speed diesel passenger engines with dedicated high-speed coaches
  • can attach other types of cars to haul mail or freight cargos but will travel at less than maximum engine speed
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
High Speed

Very High-Speed Trains

  • TGV-style electric passenger trains with very high speeds
  • power is distributed throughout the train
    • engines are relatively low power
    • every set of coaches attached to the engine adds more power
  • tilt bonus for higher speed through curves
  • attaching other types of cars is not recommended, the train will be very underpowered and will travel at much less than maximum engine speed
Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Very High Speed
Very High Speed

Lolz

Silly trains that don't have any gameplay purpose but look nice.

Intro Date: 1860 1900 1930 1960 1990 2020
Joker
Joker
Joker

Narrow Gauge

Narrow Gauge Trains

  • low power trains with low buy and run costs, and relatively low speeds
  • effective for short routes
  • can be moderately effective on longer routes
  • one general purpose engine per generation, combine them as needed for more power
  • narrow gauge railcars available later in the game
    • same speed as general purpose engine
    • can generally haul one additional unpowered coach, mail car or other wagon, on level routes
    • narrow gauge railcars can be combined as needed
Intro Date: 1860 1905 1950 2000
General Purpose
General Purpose
Mail Railcar
Passenger Railbus

Metro

Metro Trains

  • pax, mail, valuables, food and similar town cargos
  • for very busy routes in and around large cities
    • metro trains have very high capacity and relatively high run costs
    • to be profitable, metro needs to be used on routes with short distances between stations, and very high loadings
  • can be used in stations as small as 1 tile
  • metro trains can be combined as needed
Intro Date: 1900 1950 2000
Passenger High Capacity Urban
Mail High Capacity Urban
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