User:TheRealPella/WorkshopE

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When you start playing TrainStation, your station has only one set of rails for trains and one short street for buildings. You can dispatch only four trains at a time, and you can't dispatch diesel or electric trains at all. Extensions allow you to change all of that. With extensions, you can make your station bigger, dispatch trains more quickly, and discover new technologies that unlock more parts of the game. You even can build two more stations and do it all again!

Extensions are located in the Shop, on the "Station Extensions and Themes" tab, as shown in the image above. There are ten types of extensions in four main categories: Fleet Management, Population Management, Technology, and Storage. Most extensions have multiple levels of upgrades. All together, the game has more than 170 extension upgrades available.

If you buy the special building, Stock Exchange, you will receive a 20% discount on all future purchases of themes and extensions. The Discounted Cost column in the tables below shows the prices of items when Stock Exchange is active.

PLEASE NOTE: To receive the discount, ensure your Stock Exchange is in your station before your purchase. You will not receive this benefit while Stock Exchange is in Storage.

Fleet Management
The Fleet Management category includes extensions that help you handle more trains in your fleet and handle them more quickly. You can see most of these items on the Trains screen. To open the Trains screen, click on the banner marked "Trains" in the top left corner of the game screen, as seen in the image to the right.

Rails
The game begins with 1 Rail.

Each expansion gives:


 * +1 Rail, visible on the main game screen.


 * +1 Train Slot, visible on the Local Trains tab of the Trains screen. This is a bonus train slot, increasing your fleet beyond the train slots available for purchase.

Train Slots
The game begins with 4 Train Slots. These slots are for local trains only.

PLEASE NOTE: The terms "Train Slot" and "Train Slots" ALWAYS refer to Local Trains. For this reason, "Train Slots" are located on the "Local Trains" tab in the Trains screen. The easy way to remember is: If it's not "International", it's local.

Each expansion gives +1 Train Slot, visible on the Local Trains tab of the Trains screen, as seen in the image to the right.

In addition to the Train Slots available for purchase listed below, the game has bonus train slots available. Bonus train slots are awarded for buying Rails, buying Maglev Era, and completing certain contracts.

Additional train slots were added to the game during the June 16, 2011, Game Update.