All about Rail Cars | Types, Attributes, Asset Allocation, & Pack Sales

5 min readJul 16, 2021

With the Locomotives having left the station, and the Modern Century Conductors about to make their debut in the CenturyVerse — it’s time to dive into what these conductors and locomotives are going to be hauling.

Let’s talk about the very thorough collection of Rail Cars we’re introducing to the CenturyVerse.

TYPES

There will be nine different types of Rail Cars, each with their own set of commodities to haul from station to station. Here are eight of the nine types, we’re keeping the last one a secret…

Rail Car Types and Commodity Examples:

Boxcars — Packaged goods, palletized freight, beverages, crated materials
Refrigerated Boxcars — Perishable items, fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry, seafood, cheese, frozen items
Open Top Hopper Car — Petroleum Coke, rock, coal, copper concentrate, wood chips, scrap paper products
Covered Hopper Car — dry bulk loads, sugar, clay, corn, wheat, barley, fertilizer, rice, sand
Tank Car — general liquid freight, chemicals, water, diesel fuel, molasses
Flat Cars — heavy machinery, military vehicles, lumber, pipe, rail, steel beams, tractors and other farm equipment
Center Beam — Building supplies, lumber, bundled freight
Auto Rack — Automobiles and SUVs

Commodity Types

Though we have not released much information on Commodities yet, each Rail Car has a designated set of “haul-able commodity types”, indicated by icons on the Rail Car card.

Commodity-type restriction to Rail Cars is an attempt to keep Train of the Century grounded in reality. A real-world Railroader wouldn’t be haulin’ sneakers in a Tank Car, so CenturyVerse Railroaders will be keepin’ it real as well… as they time travel.

There will be much more information released on commodities in the coming weeks.

The Capacity Attribute

In addition to the type, a Rail Car’s other most important attribute is its Capacity.

Tank Cars can haul liquid and gas type commodities.

Capacity pertains to the volume of commodities it is capable of hauling —in other words how much space is available in the Rail Car.

Commodities will have multiple attributes, including weight and volume. The volume factors into whether it will fit in a given Rail Car, the weight factors into the locomotive “Haul Power” powering the train. This will be further explained in the “All About Commodities” article and the upcoming whitepaper.

Rarity

Rail Cars will be following a similar rarity convention to Locomotives and Conductors, beginning with common cards and ending with mythic cards — with some slight differences.

Each type of Rail Car has a base rarity and a max rarity — with the capacity for that Rail Car type increasing with each step up in rarity.

The higher the rarity, for a given Rail Car type, the larger the capacity.

Each Rail Car’s base capacity is the same, regardless of its base rarity.

So a Boxcar’s base capacity is “10” (which happens to be a common card), and a Flat Car’s base capacity is also “10” (which happens to be a rare card)…

Okay, so why would someone want a rare Flat Car if it has the same capacity as a more abundant card?

Because Flat Cars haul commodities that pay better.

In an effort to further illustrate the type / rarity / capacity balance, here is a table laying it all out:

Allocation

Look at any train, in real life, and you’ll see what seems like an endless procession of rail cars. You know this is true if you’ve ever been unlucky enough to get stopped in a vehicle, at a train crossing. Real world trains have a lot of Rail Cars…

In keeping with our attempt to capture some semblance of reality in this time traveling NFT game, our goal is to have as many rail cars as is possible with the WAX blockchain — Real world trains however, do not have to take dilution and tokenomics into consideration.

The plan, for now, is to introduce Rail Cars at a 1:1 Locomotive / Rail Car ratio for the Beta of ToC. Once V1 is out in 2022, additional Rail Cars will be introduced in the Mixed packs, and any additional Rail Cars for the modern century will likely be voted on by the community.

Those numbers look like this:

Thank you everyone for your continued support. There’s a big surprise coming to the CenturyVerse this Sunday!

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