Railroader 0.6.0 Experimental Is Now Available!

Hello Railroaders!

We have two exciting items to share with you:

• The Experimental branch release of Railroader, version 0.6.0, is now available!
• We have launched a new forum: community.railroadergame.com

Bulletin to All Crews

Before you change to the branch to try it out, you need to know a few things:

• This is an experimental release! There will be bugs! If you prefer to wait for the dust to settle, please do.
• Railroader 0.6.0 is not compatible with:
• Your existing saves: The experimental version will leave them where they are; you will need to start a new game.
• Your existing mods: If you use mods, we strongly recommend that you remove your existing installation of Railroader before changing to the experimental branch.

The default build on Steam will continue to be 2025.1.0b for now, but eventually 0.6.x will be released there. If you don't want to upgrade, you can change to the legacy-2025.1.0 branch in Steam.

What's New

This is by far our biggest release since our release into Early Access almost 3 years ago. It includes a large number of new features, changes, and fixes. Here are just a few highlights:

• Maintenance of Way and Track Construction Milestones
• Official Modding Support, including the Map Editor
• New locomotives: F7A & B, L-27 Articulated, and the G-16 Prairie
• New freight cars and caboose
• Engine customization options and tender options
• New vegetation, higher resolution terrain
• Parametric whistle & horn editors
• Auto Engineer directional waypoints & improved train handling
• A lot more! Please see the release notes for the full list of 180 new features, changes, and fixes!

New Forums

Why create a new forum at community.railroadergame.com? Our goal for the forum is to create a place to provide long term, searchable support for Railroader, especially with new, complicated features like Relay and the various aspects of modding. If you have questions about modding especially, these forums are the best place to post them.

Thank You

I want to sincerely thank you for your support over the years, as well as our development and community teams. As I said above, this is a huge release and it couldn't have been done without everybody's help.

Thank you in advance for trying the new experimental build, and for your feedback, which will help us to shape the followup releases on this branch and the future of Railroader.