Helps and Tips

Some help and some tips for getting the maximum experience from TrainStation.

• Use this wiki as an Encyclopedia of TrainStation.
• Reduce your buying costs as soon as possible by purchasing the Stock Exchange before any slots or upgrades for your station.
• Get Dieselisation as soon as possible to send cargo cars with diesel locomotives for 40% more cargo.
• Follow up with Electrification to send passenger, mail and XP cars with electrical locomotives for 100% higher income.
• Always use cars with the highest available capacity and bonus in your trains.
  • Keep an eye on the Shop for cargo wagons offered in the Special Offer and Vintage Offer sections. The limited offer cargo wagons have high bonuses and there is always at least one per week being offered for instead of . -Katat0nyx
• Dual cargo cars always trumps single cargo cars.
  • This is not strictly true. Reading the Dual Wagons description will provide an explanation. -Katat0nyx
• Always build buildings with the highest Passenger:Size-ratio. (Use the wiki to help you out).
• If possible, try to plan ahead when doing contracts. (Use the wiki to help you out).
• If possible, try to send cargo to multiple contractors when doing contracts. Doing so will increase the capacity of your cars.
  • What is being referred to here is the bonus for using the Trainroute Planner slots. -Katat0nyx
  • Sending a train to two contractors does not affect the count of wagons reveived. You can send 150 Hammerhead Blue to Bobby and count half the gold towards any other contractor(s) or friend(s).
• When having completed all contracts for a contractor, start filling that station with the highest ratio building available. (Check the shop page for each contractors for info)
• Use a spreadsheet to keep track of your resources and contracts.
• More cars in each train equals more resources and income. The same goes for the number of trains you can send.
  • There are many achievements that give you access to larger power trains than you would otherwise be able to buy at low levels. -Katat0nyx
    • High Speed Milestones Achievements are a good option if you can buy the trains needed to complete them. The trains you get as rewards will be better than the trains used to complete the achievement. If you choose to do these, you will also get credit towards PF I Steam Engineer in the Pixel Freight I Achievements.
    • Royal Steam Engineer in the Royal Achievements is easy and gets you a P9 Steam early.
    • Steel Smith (Deliver 2,000 + 20,000 Steel) nets you a P8 steam fast. Deliver Steel
    • Stone Crusher (Deliver 1,800 + 40,000 Gravel) nets you a P9 steam. Deliver Gravel
    • Probably my favorite one: Collect XP During Train Rides. P8 steam in no time flat.
• Try to always keep a depot slot open so that way you can swap trains without having to disassemble one.