Locomotives

A Train consists of a Locomotive and one or more Carriages . All Locomotives except the Puffing Billy can pull the Premium Carriages (the ones that cost Gold to purchase) while the Mogul can only pull Small Carriages or Premium Carriages.

Almost all Locomotives will periodically break down and require Parts and time to Repair them.

The number of active Locomotives is limited by the total levels of your Stations , although some require no room in the depot. The number of Carriages in Storage is unlimited.

"Offer" means that the Locomotive can be purchased via limited time Special Offers. The price is only a guide, as they do not seem to be fixed, and also seem to be cheaper on Facebook than other platforms.

Properties

Speed & Efficiency are derived from actual contract data in comparsion to the default loc. The data of the default Loc was found by moving all available Locomotives into Reserve before attempting to initiate Contracts. The values ​​for Reliability and the Number of Carriages can be read or taken directly from the game.

Speed

The rating value of the Speed is the ratio to the default speed.

Efficiency

The Efficiency corresponds to the revenue divided by the costs of a contract in relation to the default train. The total costs of an contract result from the costs of the locomotive plus the costs of the Carriages . The income depends only on the number and size of carriages. It is therefore efficient if a locomotive pulls more and large carriages. The ingame-bar only shows the contract cost of the locomotive, but ignores the income and number and size of carriages the locomotive could and should pull. If smaller carriages than possible are selected, these carriages are marked as ineffective. Using fewer carriages than possible reduces efficiency even more.

Reliability

A Locomotive's Maximum Reliability will determine how often Repairs must be made. Preventative Maintenance may be performed prior to breakdown to Restore a Locomotive's current Reliability (which is reduced through normal usage in fulfilling Contracts), up to its Maximum Reliability Rating. Some Locomotives will never break down nor require Maintenance and are indicated with ∞ (infinite Reliability).

Luck

The Chance to obtain Items (managers) are approximations based upon taken from the in-game bars graphs (0-100). The chance also depends on the level of the contract. If no level 4 order is executed, the chance decreases to: level 1: 25%, level 2: 50% and level 3: 75%.

Comparison

Below is a comparison between all the Locomotives ever available in the game in their basic configuration and those fully upgraded locs through Research .

Big locomotive table in basic and fully upgraded variants

Name	Status						Image
Puffing Billy	basic	1 small	100	150	100	10
	upgraded	1 small	100	400	111	10
Rocket	basic	1	100	180	100	10
	upgraded	2	100	280	83	27
Mogul	basic	2 small	91	250	100	10
	upgraded	3 small	100	380	100	27
Pacific	basic	2	94	350	100	10
	upgraded	2	107	700	100	53
Gladstone	basic	1	94	440	111	10
	upgraded	2	100	850	143	10
Ashford	basic	2	94	450	111	10
	upgraded	3	110	600	111	27
Hardwick	basic	1	100	250	100	10
	upgraded	2	136	500	100	36
Atlantic	basic	2	100	700	111	23
	upgraded	2	115	700	111	45
Decapod	basic	3	122	∞	100	10
	upgraded	3	141	∞	111	36
Liberty Bell**	basic only	3	115	∞	100	36
Jack-o'-lantern**(Halloween)	basic only	3	122	∞	100	10
Challenger**	basic	2	100	∞	111	36
	upgraded	2	125	∞	111	95
Lightning**	basic	2	107	∞	143	10
	upgraded	2	130	∞	167	36
Mallet**	basic	3 small	100	700	100	10
	upgraded	3 small	115	∞	100	32
Ridding**	basic	2	97	1000	133	10
	upgraded	2	125	∞	133	32
Icebreaker *	not upgradable	2 small	100	250	67/100*	10
Polar Express	not upgradable	3	96	∞	118	10
Ironsides	not upgradeable	3	96	∞	118	10

• Icebreaker's Speed Rating is slower in the Storewell Campaign; Contract Time increases by 50% if there's no snow on the ground.

Basic costs to build a locomotive

Name	Lvl	Craft			Offer	Image
Puffing Billy	01	5 2 3	1 small	-	-
Rocket	03	10 3 2	1	-	-
Mogul	10	5 5 1	2 small	-	-
Pacific	13	10 2 1	2	-	-
Gladstone	16	20 2 1	1	+25%	-
Ashford	25	30 250 1	2	+10%	-
Hardwick	?	80	1	-	-
Atlantic	07	175	2	+10%	-
Decapod	03	335	3	-	$8.50

Convertions and formulas

The game shows a bar on many of the basic traits that is only remotely related. These bars can be converted back into real properties using the following formulas. These formulas were also used in the table.

• Speed

It is calculated as follows:
Contract Time for the default locomotive / Contract Time for the current locomotive

Unfortunately the bar graph shows only the reverse contract time. That's not quite the same as speed. Anyway, the bar graph can be converted into speed as follows:
speed = 14,100 / (179 - [bar length])
bar length = 179 - 14,100 / [speed]

Speed Convertion Table

Speed Rating	Speed	Contract Time	Bar Length
1	83%	120%	10%
2	87%	115%	17%
3	91%	110%	24%
4	95%	105%	31%
5	100%	100%	38%
6	105%	95%	45%
7	111%	90%	52%
8	118%	85%	59%
9	125%	80%	66%
10	133%	75%	73%
11	143%	70%	80%
12	154%	65%	87%
13	167%	60%	94%

• Efficiency

It is calculated as follows:
Costs for an contract including all carriages / Income from the whole train

The bar graph shows only the inverse contract cost of the locomotive. However, this can be converted as follows:
oEff = old efficiency cost, Bar = Length of Graphic Bar, NoC = Number of Carriages
oEff = 220 - 2*Bar
large Carriages: efficiency = 18,000*NoC / (1.2*oEff + 108*NoC)
small Carriages: efficiency = 12,000*NoC / (1.2*oEff + 84*NoC)

Efficiency Convertion Table

Bar Length	1 small Carriage	2 small Carriages	3 small Carriages	1 large Carriage	2 large Carriages	3 large Carriages
0%	34%	56%	70%	48%	75%	92%
10%	37%	59%	73%	52%	79%	96%
20%	40%	63%	77%	56%	83%	100%
30%	43%	67%	81%	60%	88%	105%
40%	48%	71%	86%	65%	94%	110%
50%	53%	77%	91%	71%	100%	115%
60%	59%	83%	97%	79%	107%	122%
65%	63%	87%	100%	83%	111%	125%
70%	67%	91%	103%	88%	115%	129%
80%	77%	100%	111%	100%	125%	136%
90%	91%	111%	120%	115%	136%	145%
95%	100%	118%	125%	125%	143%	150%
100%	111%	125%	130%	136%	150%	155%

• Reliability

The reliability can be converted as follows:
Reliability = 12*[bar length] - 120
Bar length = [reliability]/12 + 10

Reliability Convertion Table

Bar Length	Reliability
20%	120
30%	240
40%	360
50%	480
60%	600
70%	720
80%	840
90%	960
100%	∞