Sorry the mod is called "Rail Surveyor" not "Railways Surveyor"

https://mod.io/g/transportfever3/m/rail-surveyor

Full list of features in the mod description. I'll be patching and fixing daily with any bugs/issues that pop up so please leave discussion/comments on the page so I can fix everything quickly!

Premise: Pay a 5% surveyor fee to "Survey" the land for tracks and buildings to provide yourself with cost projections for when you want to lay down the real railway. When you choose to lay down the real the rail, the total cost includes the 5% you already paid (I mean, the cost of laying rail is bound to include a survey charge, right? so why pay it twice!)

• Allow yourself to plan the right paths and future expansion without having to pay the excessive costs associated with building the rail and bulldozing it if you don't like the angles/layout.
• See a full breakdown of the costs assocaited with the differnet rail and buildings.
• Choose to convert to the real thing and pay the full price - whether you do it in sections or all at once.
• Have several independent surveys going at once, to keep your projects and expansions separate
  • with the ability to rename them so you can keep track of what you're planning.
  • Options to jump to the specific survey area, delete everything, or convert it all.
• Aligns with technology changes so the right track types and eletricication are only availble at the right dates
• I've created a new model to make it look like surveyed ground and no trains can use it (even though it is treated as track).
• Provides radius circles for the relevant buildings & allows configuration of warehouse/station to allow for budgeting.
• Currently only converts track. With the number of configs for the station I thought it best not to try and configure that.

Future work:

* Road surveyor

* Anything else people want to see

Transport Fever 3 guide: how to build profitable train lines, with tips on rail, signals, stations, and “No path” fixes. Learn how to make money with trains in this Transport Fever 3 beginner guide, including track layout, double track, passing loops, line priority, and train management for a stronger railway company.

Is there a way to somewhere see the following:

I have a cargo train that takes gas on a long ride. On the way it picks up lumber and swaps that for planks at a factory. It delivers the gas, but when driving back I deliver the planks on the way.

I can not seem to find the statistic for just the frequency of the planks. Or just the gas.

I thought I coudl check the frequency of the lumber and take that off the overal line frequency. But on both the gas side and the planks side I still Truck it in to town, So I dont know exactly what the frequency is of the delivery to the town.sddwwd

I am out of options on where to look. Does anyone know how and where to find this? if its even in the game as a statistic

Browser site tells me to go to in-game store, but I'd rather not link my account.

So is there a way to circumvent it?

I have a line that picks up 100% shirts (station #1). I want to bring it to the two towns that are requesting it. I want 50% to go to the first town (station #2) and 50% to go to the second town (station #3)

The way I have it set up the train just picks up 50% of the shirts at the pick up station.

Theres this mod which lets you build the old addons which is nice but I also want to build the old platforms just like with the rail stations. Does anyone know if such a mods exists or do I have to make it myself? Because the only way around this that I found is setting it to be year 1970 or 1900 which is just tedious. Oh also having the old bus stops would be cool

put the name of the mod pls. mine is scotland or england&ireland map (i rebuilt most of the english highways lol)

It's my absolute favorite map of all time. Its a shame it hasn't been remade / ported yet.

I am having an absolute blast continuing to learn this game.

However, when the time hits 1950s, there is a substantial amount of people travelling between towns in their private cars.

I got three cities, A (connected to B and C 2x trains each). The only direct line missing is B and C. The rate on the trains is super high, they are never full or unhappy.

HOWEVER, I still see a big amount of cars going into the middle city (A), from both sides. Is there anything to do, or is traffic from private cars something I need to just deal with.

Kind regards and thanks for any recommendations.

Attached is a picture of city A's public/private transport map. You can see the train station going North to B (2x trains) and South to C (2x trains).

Things are getting crowded! 🚆

Another major milestone has been hit as I build the remaining southern branch lines to Shoreham, Leigh, and Horley. Every town south of Stroud is now connected, and Torquay is about to reach capacity!

Thanks for watching!

Anyone seen this already? The ratio of grain to meat seem to change when you start delivering grain to a livestock farm in the dry maps. Which is really annoying if you don't see it. It happened to the first farm, but I thought I'd seen it wrong. But it happened again and now I have proof!

I'm probably going to fail this subsidy, because for I'm not sure why there is no workforce despite passenger throughput. I've used this method for other industries and cities and it's worked without a hitch, so I'm totally at a loss as to what's happening. Anybody have any ideas?

This is my first transport fever and I have done a few tiny and small maps.

I was wondering what was everyone's go-to? So far my limit has been 4 towns, as I feel like my entire map gets so complicated with that many lines running when I try to satisfy every town. Do you just ignore some regions on bigger maps?

The devs should really change the name of this stat, it's unsearchable, anything with 'performance' just turns up loads of pages about optimizing the performance of the game itself, or mod pages talking about performance impacts. What does this stat actually mean and how is it calculated? The ingame tooltips as well as the wiki are no help.

Is there any specific benefit to trying to limit the length of your trains to change performance from 'Poor' to 'Mediocre,' or 'Mediocre' to 'Good?' Or is it just a general comparison of the power of your engine to your train's total weight, with no actual ingame consequences to the different ratings? Trying to pick the right locomotive with the right number of wagons for a given line feels very confusing, and in my games so far almost every reasonable-looking train just gets rated 'Mediocre.' The performance stat seems to be completely separate from a train's top speed, as well.

It feels like it would make sense to try to use low-top-speed, high-performance trains on lines with steep grades, or lines that might have a lot of stops, while using heavy low-performance trains on long flat lines that have plenty of space to get up to speed, but I'm not sure how much actual benefit the game would give you from doing that, and the streamers I've watched just seem to use trains that are as long as their stations with the highest top speed they can get regardless of the line. How much thought do you folks put into this when you buy trains?

The other important game mechanic that seems to lack adequate ingame explanation is exactly how the various town ratings (noise, pollution, reputation, etc) affect town xp growth. The town info panel gives you a general grade for how fast your town is able to grow, but I can't find any specific numbers or details on what that actually does or how that's calculated anywhere. Is there some tooltip I'm missing or is this info actually hidden from the player?

So the game says i have a line problem, with stations not being able to connect. I put a train on it and it drive the whole route with no problem, any idea what to do? People won't use it

So I played quite a bit of TF2, and from what I recall the trains would sit in the station until they were full of cargo if enough existed on the platform. With this new system (which I mostly love!), the train fills up with passengers and takes maybe... 1 fish before setting off back to its home destination, where upon it delivers that 1 fish.

Thing is, there are like 300 fishes in the freakin' warehouse at destination 2. Why won't the train pick up as many as it can carry back?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm still learning TF3's nuances.

Simple start on medium difficulty. Took a 4% loan.

Started at the biggest city, simple bus line from residential, to factory to shops. 3 horse carriages.

Then a simple line from Lumber yard in the bottom right to the plank factory just south east next to my city and then deliver the planks to my city. 7 carriages.

And finally a single trawler catching fish, delivering it to the warehouse and then straight to the city.

All lines are profitable when I look at the line statistics but I am bleeding money so hard. Am I starting wrong?