Railroads Online! – Train Tonnage Calculator Guide

Spreadsheet for calculating overall value weight and ability to pull your train.

Guide to Train Tonnage Calculator

Please note: all credit goes to RedneckRanger27!

Gaining Access

Go to the top left where it says “File” then “Make a copy”.

Link.

Using The Calculator

  • White boxes are your inputs.
  • Green boxes are the important output info.

Dead engines indicate you are pulling it but it is not adding power (Only counts weight not tractive effort).

Alive engines as you could probly guess are there to indicate that it is applying power (Counts tractive effort and weight).

Here i have Betsy on a 2% grade with normal physics:

  • 5 Flatcars.
  • 2 Full of Logs.
  • 1 Has 3 Logs.
  • 1 Is Empty.

What the Outputs Mean

  • Current Capacity of train in Lbs.
  • Current wight of train in Lbs.
  • Excess Capacity (negative means you wont pull it (tight corners and other factors affect this too so best to keep a good sized buffer i do around 15000 with 8 cars and i slow down a bit but can still make it)).
  • Total amount of money you will recieve.

Note: i Have not tested the value of each cargo with different difficulties as i believe they are the same.

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Egor Opleuha, also known as Juzzzie, is the Editor-in-Chief of Gameplay Tips. He is a writer with more than 12 years of experience in writing and editing online content. His favorite game was and still is the third part of the legendary Heroes of Might and Magic saga. He prefers to spend all his free time playing retro games and new indie games.

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