Railways

MinecraftOnline has multiple railways traversing its 13 year old map. This page is to help distinguish the different railways that are apart of the FRS and not apart of the FRS. If you are looking for information on how to build railways (safely) go to the page Lets Build a Railway.

List of railways in Freedonia

• This is a list of the multiple railways and railway groups across the server.

Freedonia Railway System

The FRS (Freedonia Railway System) is the largest, oldest, and most standardized of the railways on the server. For over a decade it has serviced and expanded into a detailed network across the server that can take you from the spawn to the world border.

Spawn Continental Railway

A railway network that specializes in ground based rail. Currently it operates primarily on the spawn continent. It's main hub stations are located in Eldermans and Kanal Town

Navarro Northern Railroad

A subsidiary of Texas Industries INC. Controls Dubina Union Station and other railroad infrastructure in and near the city. Planned to expand further into other reaches of the United Texas Coalition

North Borderlands Subway Association

Currently being planned by  Butternutbamboo to connect towns in the North and North-East borderlands with underground rail and ice tunnels. Please reach out if you are interested in connecting your settlement!

Beartown - Freerdonia Railway

This small single track line connects the towns of BearTown and Freerdonia. It provides scenic views of spawn along its route.

Marqange Railway

A railway network started by  Inspector_Foix in January 2016, it has a single FRS connection but used a separate ticketing system and is the largest non FRS railway in Freedonia.

Tedster Rail System

A railway system made by the admin  Ted1246 to better connect Tedster Island to other places Ted believes should get a railway link.

ABC Rail Network

This is a privately owned railway ran by  icooliam that operates within and around Aryina City, it was made in 2014.

Heruvian Hyper Rail

 George_Manns high speed piston bolt that runs outside Georgetown, it is incomplete since Georges ban in 2023.

Dubina Rail Co.

A railway network that works alongside the Navarro Northern Railroad, runs from Dubina to the surrounding community of Pelican Bay.

Fort Chuwu railway

The Fort Chuwu railway is a single track 8:3 gauge railway connecting Fort Chuwu to Light Blue-2 Borderlands Hub. It also has a stop at the Saintstone Castle.

Timberforge Railway

A two stop railway that connects the town of Timberforge with the nearest nexus at Sandy Shades. Constructed in 2024.

Casa de Austria Minecart Transportation system

A 4 line local subway that covers the town of Casa de Austria just off the Pink Nexus hub.

South-East Railways

South-East Railways, provided by SimmConnect, have been powering the transit in the South-East region of legacy Freedonia for over a decade. With the main hub in Forestberg connected to FRS, South-East Railways provide a direct connection to NewLands, Skyline, MonopleVille, Mistral Valley, and Kurai Cho.

History of railways in Freedonia

• For a more in depth history on the early railways in Freedonia visit the Freedonia Railway System page.

The first railway in Freedonia was made to connect  Shypixels city of Lava Town and  AgentMuus town the Isle of Muu. This railway showed off the viability of long distance railways as a legitimate form of travel across the world. Multiple rail lines would expand to early cities and towns shortly after this. The sudden growth of the rail industry saw the birth of the FRS, a group focusing on the growth and standardization of Freedonias many railways. Railways would continue to be an iconic part of travel on the server until loosing steam when Project Anubis was finished. While the railway was still a popular form of transit, it would begin to loose popularity as the server got older. Despite this, multiple lines of the FRS would expand across the server with the various map expansions.

With the TPS of the server decreasing in the mid 2010s as the map got older; rails became more laggy and somewhat hard to use. Despite this the Marqange Railway began to be built across spawn. Eventually during the end of the 1.7.10 era around (2018-2020) rail was nearly unusable due to lag. This would change with the 1.12.2 update which fixed TPS somewhat. The 1.12.2 map expansion saw increased interest in railways as a mode of transport across the unexplored and wild new areas. 1.12.2 began to bring more people to the servers and saw MinecraftOnline more mainstream with events such as the Fitmc Invasion. The increase in player count saw the railways begin to get some attention again as an important part of the servers history.

Later in the 2020s multiple small railways began to pop up that were not apart of the FRS. It came to a design among some of these owners to make the Railways wiki page to help differentiate their railways from the existing FRS lines.