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The Menu Bar is located in the Bottom-Centre area of the Screen.

Construction/Realistic View

This button toggles the current view between the Construction and Realistic (aka 3D) view modes. When in Realistic view mode, the Menu Bar has a reduced number of icons. This is because constructing: tracks, buildings and editing terrain is not enabled in Realistic View.

Keyboard shortcut: Space bar

Game Speed

This option opens up a Sub-Menu that has 4 different game speeds to choose from:

Quests & Subsidies

This opens up the Quests & Subsidies window that shows all the active Quests currently available, it is from this window that rewards can also be collected by the player.

Keyboard shortcut: F6

Railway

Basic railway:

High Speed Railway available from Era 3

Electric Railway available from Era 5

This opens a Sub-Menu with 8-10 options (depending on era and preset) for building railway tracks. The building tools are identical for all three types of railway:

Railway

This option allows you to build railway tracks by dragging the tool across the map, complex junctions can be created by joining the lines together.

Remover

This tool will remove only railway tracks and signals, it will not affect non-railway related options. It will allow you to select a single section of track, making it a more precise alternative to the Bulldoze tool. Also, by holding the mouse button and dragging, you can select whole section of the track to be removed. You can remove signal separately, however; if you remove piece of track containing signal, the signal will be deleted, too.

Upgrade/Degrade tool

(Available from Era 3) it allows you to change the whole section of track to a different type. You can either select a section of the track by clicking on single piece - will select the whole length from station to next complex crossing or switch. Or you can mark rectangle on the map (by dragging the mouse cursor while holding left mouse button) and it will change all tracks within the marked area.

Depot

Builds a Depot building to enable trains to be purchased in order to run on the railway

Station

Builds a Station, initially the max length is only 6 tiles. Building a new station in an adjacent tile to an existing station results in them being combined to form a single station.

Bridge

Builds a Bridge between 2 points, the bridge must be perpendicular to the grids to work, gradients on bridges are allowed.

Tunnel

Builds a Tunnel between 2 points, the tunnel must be perpendicular to the grids to work, gradients on tunnels are allowed.

Signals

Depending on the Advanced Game Setting there will be either one (for auto signal) or two (for manual selection of block and chain signals) icons for placing signals. Please refer to Signals page for more details.

Multisignal tool

This allows you to place multiple signals on long section of the track (between switches and/or stations) with single click. By using the small + and - icons beside the tool, you can set the distance (in squares) between those signals.

Roads

This option opens up a Sub-Menu which currently only has one option:

Road

Build a road by dragging the tool accross the map.

Landscape Mode

This option opens up a Sub-Menu that has 4 different game speeds to choose from:

Bulldozer

Destoys all owned buildings and objects on the tiles selected.

Raise Terrain

Increases the elevation of all selected Terrain Nodes by a of height 1.

Lower Terrain

Drops the elevation of all selected Terrain Nodes by a of height 1.

Level Terrain

Sets the elevation of all selected Terrain Nodes to the same height has the first Node selected.

Industry

This button opens sub-menu which contains industrial buildings a player can build. Currently, in vanilla game, those are only the three types of stores available in different eras.

If you subscribe to any mods offering buildings (either residential or industrial or decorations), they will all be placed here, too.

Stamps

This button opens Stamps window. Please refer to that page for more details.

Trees

This option opens up a Sub-Menu which has a selection of tree types that can be planted on the map. There are currently 12 different types of trees to chose from, as well as field of sunflowers, wheat and oat. Also, there is an option that plants random types of trees when selected.

The square of trees can be cleared by bulldozer, however the fields would grow back. To remove the fields from the map, use the last button (with red X)

Object Visibility

Opens up a window that allows specific objects in the game to become invisible.

Company

This option opens up a Sub-Menu which has 3 options:

Your Company Info

This opens up a window to change your appearance and the colour scheme of your company. Also, it will let you build the company HQ and change the name of your company

Statistics

Opens the Balance Window to show your companies income and expenses

Achievements

Opens a window with all the in-game Achievements, it shows which achievements have been earned. Please note, due to an Early Access game, not all achievements work properly.

Setup

This button opens up a Sub-Menu which has 6 options:

Music Player

This opens up the in-game music player, to select which music track is being played.

Camera

Opens a menu for setting up a Camera mode for taking in-game pictures and videos

Keyboard shortcut: F11

Settings

Opens up the In-game Settings Menu window to change some game settings. Please note, many parameters are unchangeble for the whole playthrough and can be changed only for a new game.

Keyboard Shortcut: F2

Save Game

Allows the current game to be saved under a specific name

Keyboard shortcut: F3

Load Game

Opens a window to allow a different saved file to be opened.

Quit Game

Returns the game to the main menu