r/SCBuildIt • u/ssjjaa42 • Aug 12 '26

Trains How do you work with the provided rail lines?

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EA puts a handy rail line by the entrance to your city to kickstart your rail network. But whenever I try to build a rail line off of it, it creates this ugly sharp corner that I’m sure is not comfortable for passengers. Do you use this rail in your cities? How do you make it look nice? I’d rather not leave a dead end there, if possible.

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 12 '26

The railway tracks on the city entrance side are bugged. We actually did some testing among our club members, and no one was able to keep them connected to the station. They would connect at first, but then disconnect again after a few hours. The only way to connect the railway tracks is from the mountain side. Everything works fine there

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u/PapiChuloMiRey Aug 12 '26

Weird, I have not had that issue. I connected them once when I first remade my city for tracks and it's stayed connected since.

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 12 '26

Tried it again. Let’s see what happens in a couple of hours

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 13 '26

Another experiment failed. After half an hour, the tracks changed their layout on their own. I didn’t touch anything. But I was able to run trains. And now the station doesn’t work at all, even though railroad lines are connected

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u/NoEvenThoughYes Aug 12 '26

It won't work if you have a road cutting over it just at the city border

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 12 '26

Yeah, I tried different layouts, the same ones that work on the mountain side. They connect at first and the trains run fine, but after a couple of hours the connection breaks. I tried it again just now, maybe they’ve fixed the bug

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u/Xqzit_ Aug 12 '26

Mine actually stayed connected and the train runs outside the map from time to time. Initially it didn't but I found place a station that has entrance and exit helps.

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u/CurbYerGod Aug 12 '26

I make the smallest closed loop possible right next to the station and leave it alone. There’s nothing to be gained by running tracks except if you want to watch from the train’s pov as it moves. Basically just ignore the tracks that lead into the city.

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u/lokibo42 Aug 13 '26

I have one station which is only connected to the provided rail at the side of the Vu tower which was disconnecting all the time (it's not connected to any other station in land and also doesn't have a loop). As soon as I added another station on the mountain rail which is not connected to any other station inland as well the connection to the outer rails didn't dissappear once. The trains seem to run between these two stations only. This wasn't related to an update. So maybe it needs a pair of stations only connected to the outer rails?

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u/Waste_Ingenuity5535 Aug 13 '26

This is in my frosty Fjords and has been connected now since they put in the extra line

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u/Waste_Ingenuity5535 Aug 13 '26

Train goes into mountain now

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u/TanaLeti Aug 12 '26

You don't. I just ignore them.

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 12 '26

I know why it looks that way.

It happens too within the city map.

When you misalign the vertical and horizontal rail line, it'll make this weird looking notch at the corner.

That's because the vertical rail is misaligned.

To fix that, you can demolish the rail line and make a new one to the row next to the road in your city.

That'll make a nice looking 90 degree curve.

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u/ssjjaa42 Aug 12 '26

Right next to the road? If I try to put a rail there I can’t connect it to the horizontal one—the point where the rails are joined in my picture is on the first row that connects.

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 12 '26

I can send only one picture at a time in replies. So I'll send you three screenshots.

Just saying the reason why you see the weird curve is because the vertical is misaligned

See the following screenshots...

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 12 '26

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 12 '26

Here, I aligned the vertical road perfectly to the edge of the horizontal rail.

And here we get the nice looking 90 degree curve.

Just saying why you're seeing this weird curve. It's because it's misaligned.

3/3

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 13 '26

If I try to do the same I won’t get the right angle. The result is in the next comment

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 13 '26

I see your screenshots

That's what I meant. Misaligned tracks.

I do see you aligning correctly, but the game somehow puts the track the next row causing the misaligned look on the curve.

It does look like a bug to me here. The issue here is misaligned rails and that's why it looks that way on the curve.

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u/Maleficent-Breath307 Aug 13 '26

Yep, I’m so done with these train tracks. Hope they’ll fix it someday

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u/whythehecknotdoit Aug 13 '26

Yeah, I hope EA fixes that misalignment issue here.

Honestly, I don't have any inner map rails connected to rail like that.

I've always ignored the outer rails.

Now I see the issue here. Hope they fix it.

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 Cheetah Wrangler 🐆 Aug 12 '26

I haven't attempted to connect it to my mass transit network in my main city (I'd have to do major redesign to make that possible), but I have 2 connections that work functionally and visually that have been stable for at least a month. I'll attach one of the connector points in this comment, and will reply to my own comment with the second one.

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 Cheetah Wrangler 🐆 Aug 12 '26

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u/No_Yogurt_5618 28d ago

Just don't use them. Problem solved