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Ok. So I played with a ton of personal restrictions. Including not taking any employees of any kind. It was a decent challenge . . . I needed a few attempts before I passed it. Perhaps I was also trying to modify my strategy compared to normal, relying a little too much on wagon transport.


The gradient speeds are radically slow. Definitely needs some different considerations to normal. For example spending a lot more for Earthworks than normal. Also to try to get station footprints perfectly level. If you can line up with contour lines that helps a lot. This isn't a place to use maintenance stations. Which is just as well.


I think it's quite clever how some valleys have been blocked by the no-build zone around resources. I didn't use them, but I think warehouses can be a bit of a cheat here. You can place these some distance from a city and then "chose" a better elevation. For example Philadelphia. Also, low speeds are limiting station capacity a lot, warehouses are a way around that too. They don't have the kink at the end of the platform either.


I do have a question, what loco speed factor is used here? Was something special done to limit speed on curves?