Mods
Small mods for Railroader. Most fix something that bugged us on our own railroad. All free, all on Nexus Mods.
Making a Railroader mod? Use our settings menu in yours, or share data with other mods.
Industry stockpiles, flows and load times for every unlocked industry in one live window, plus what your interchanges will bring in. Read-only, light on CPU, for Railroader 0.6.1+ (Experimental).
Trains keep the right-of-way clear on the track they use, while sidings nobody uses go green. Every 125 tons of train undoes 1 hour of vegetation regrowth. Host only, it uses the game's own clearing, so it saves and syncs like MoW work.
Tell your MoW crews what to do: Repair, Upgrade and Brush options on the work car's MoW tab. Repair only keeps track at its class without raising it back up; Brush off leaves the wildflowers. Also stops repairs clearing brush instantly.
MoW work-car crews are paid for the hours they actually work instead of a flat 12-hour shift. Never less than one hour per crew, never more than a full shift each. The full-shift pay is the game's $250 by default and can be changed in Preferences > Mods. Host-only. Railroader 0.6.1+.
Fixes a base-game bug in Railroader 0.6.2: loading a save as host throws away every station's waiting passengers. With Crowds Kept, each station keeps the crowd it had when you saved, with its old boarding times. Host-only.
Industries load and unload the car nearest the switch first, so the finished car is the one you can pull without moving the rest of the cut. Or pick farthest, random or the game's own order. Ignores leftover slivers; can load strictly by position. Host-only DLL mod, Railroader 0.6.1+.
Fixes the base game forgetting a MoW climb: raised track keeps its old class on record, so the tooltip says Class 3 on class 5 track. Records each class as the crew completes it, fixes raised track on load, shows the raw condition while climbing. Optional tooltip line: segment id and AE speed limit. Recording is host-only. Railroader 0.6.1+.
MoW crews pay the game's own listed prices for track work. Repairs and class climbs cost what the price list says, instead of vanilla's tiny bill (a climb often costs 1/20 to 1/80 of list in vanilla). Needs Class Logger. Host-only, Railroader 0.6.2.
When a construction phase is stuck on a missing material, MoW work cars keep unloading what that segment's later phases need (bridge steel, ties, rails) instead of sitting full. Build order, material use and unload rate stay the game's. No settings. Host-only DLL mod for Railroader 0.6.1+.
A used equipment lot: worn locos and cars at 35% to 85% of new, new stock every game day. Hold, buy, finance a loco, expedite an order, or ask the agent to find a car. Settings in Preferences > Mods. The host buys. Railroader 0.6.2.
A live window that rates the train you're driving: working engines and tons, starting pull and adhesion, and the speed it holds and the tons it could take on level track, on the stock map's big hills (you choose which) and on plain grades. Read only, per player, safe in multiplayer.
Upgrade your passenger stations on two ladders. Comfort (benches, waiting room, depot) stops the evening crowd walking home before the last train. Draw (timetable board, ticket window, agent-operator) brings more people to ride. Bought per station from the station window. In multiplayer the host builds.
Passengers stay patient while your train is moving: every mile their car travels gives back 30 minutes of their 4-hour timer, up to full, so it only runs down while the train stands or crawls. Transfers keep their patience. Host only in multiplayer. Needs Railroader 0.6.2 (Experimental branch).
A weed spray car on the game's 40 ft MoW car. Couple a tank car of herbicide, switch Spray on and run at 5 mph: each pass undoes a week of right-of-way weed growth, and treated track then grows back at half speed for 14 days. Herbicide from any interchange, $0.10 a gallon. Settings in game. SCOLD recommended. Railroader 0.6.2.
Passengers become optional. Your railroad's reputation counts freight performance and safety only, using the game's own freight-only weights (60% and 40%), so a freight railroad isn't dragged down by stations it never serves. Passenger trains still earn fares. One switch in Preferences > Mods. Host only.
Car tags show each car's load and fill, loading time left, speed, tender coal and water, passengers, work crew status and repair time, plus ordered material, the handbrake and air problems. Each item can be turned off. For Railroader 0.6.2 (Experimental branch).
Aux water, diesel and coal-and-water cars on the game's own bodies. Coupled behind a tender, a tank engine or a diesel they keep it full, farthest car first; chain them, park one as a water tower, Feed box per car. Plus remote MU: a helper anywhere in the train follows the lead. Railroader 0.6.2+.
Extra days to deliver, for railroads that got a little sidetracked. Adds grace days (1 by default, up to 3) on top of the game's own to every new waybill, so a slow delivery counts less against your Freight Performance and reputation. Pay never changes. One setting in Preferences > Mods. Host only.
Your railroad's books in a web page, served by the game itself: ledger and bank balance by day, industries and contracts, passengers by station and hour, your roster with condition and overhauls, and a map of your track by health, brush, class or tonnage (with Traffic Recorder). Read only. Open http://127.0.0.1:8630/books/ while you play.
Your clients get picky about where their cars come from. Per industry, in Company > Locations, choose which interchange its cars are ordered from, and whether its outbound loads go there too (or, with a setting, to another). A closed or unreachable choice falls back to the game's own pick, so it never stops an industry ordering.
Inspired by Interchange Designation by SilviaS152002.
The mod list keeps its place. Ticking a mod in Manage Mods, or in the in-game Mods page, no longer jumps the list back to the top, so you can tick a run of mods near the bottom without scrolling down after every click. A new search still starts at the top. UI only, each player's own.
A plant that both ships a load and sells it to your MoW cars keeps one day of production as a MoW reserve, filled first, so your work trains always find ties, ballast and concrete waiting (Scott's ties and the Dillsboro quarry's ballast and concrete on the stock map). The plant orders fewer empties while the reserve refills, and never shuts down when it's full.
One interchange service brings every waiting car that really fits. The base game counts cars as if each were 50 ft long; this sizes each service by the real length of the cars against the free track, checked with the game's own placer, and never brings fewer than the base game (tested at Sylva: 25 cars where the base game would have brought 8).
See which lines carry your railroad's traffic. Tick Traffic in the game map's gear menu and every piece of track is colored by its tons a day over the last 7 game days, in fixed bands from pale yellow to deep red, a ramp that reads for color-blind players too. It also gives Railroad Books two tonnage layers on its Track map.
Riders stop marking you down for a coach that's a little worn. It does not repair cars or change their condition: it changes how riders rate a worn coach in reputation's Passenger: Equipment Condition. At 80% or better a coach counts as perfect, below that in proportion. Threshold in Preferences > Mods. Host side.
Log, pulpwood and tie piles that grow and shrink with the stock at Walker, Connelly and the Scott Tie Plant.
Lets Auto Engineer trains coast downhill instead of braking to the set speed. The train rolls up to 5 mph over it (adjustable), never past the track limit, and saves its brakes. Settable per engine.
Clears all 578 old posted segment speed limits from the map at load, so the Auto Engineer and tie paint go by track class and your Railroad Speed Limit.
Steam engines give each other coal and water through the train, at tower speed. Set an engine to Give, Receive or Keep even from its window; it stops by itself when done, empty, full or uncoupled.
Retired
