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Hello all, we have an exciting announcement tonight! Ever since our visit to the 2023 National Narrow Gauge Convention, we've been chomping at the bit to bring our game-in-progress to more places, but our top priority has always been to advance it forward in its development, and as we've developed t

A narrow gauge railroad is nothing without the communities they connected, so Studio 346 Art Director Tom discusses the ways Century of Steam designs structures for large 19th century mining towns on a strict VRAM budget for better performance and detail... and gets a tooth ripped out of their head.

We finally got around to replacing the mockup cars from our announcement trailer! Welcome aboard another new contractor, Trevor, who provided us with an excellent model of not just the 3-bay steel hoppers, but also 2-bay, side-bay, and extended top versions as well. While more limited to hauling onl

Hello all! In many ways, we view Century of Steam as its own form of railroad preservation, with the goal of inspiring many new people to take interest in railroading history, and to understand and appreciate this bygone way of life for train crews in our titular century. Before we can teach, we mus

Hello all, and Happy Pride Month! We've had our noses to the grindstone for a bit, but we have a variety bag of new things to share. First and foremost, we are excited to debut our overhead route map system, developed from the ground up and styled after historic railroad track diagrams and blueprint

Hello all, Hot off the heels of our East Broad Top Mikados, a new contractor Nate has captured the tail end of our Old Eastie offerings with cabooses 27 and 28! We have a running discourse in the company about what constitutes a "Normal" Caboose, if only because so many narrow gauge cabeese can rang

Hello all! In an unexpected update from our 3D asset team, we now have the Swayne Lumber Company connected skeleton log cars in Century of Steam! These iconic cars also served on the West Side Lumber Company and are a must-have for any Ponderosa logging operation with big trees to fell. Enjoy! --Stu

Hello all! Tristan here - the team has been working diligently on our next Mainline Dev Vlog and we have a Flag Stop nearly done which we'll be sharing with y'all soon. I wanted to let you all know that we're slightly behind schedule due to a couple team member outages for medical reasons earlier th

...It's a Perlman :]

We didn't forget, it's just really long! --Studio 346

Hello all! This flag stop was initially intended to come out earlier, but due to the minor schedule hiccup which was hurling the entire team into the abyss of southwestern Colorado, we ended up moving the upload order for the various flag stops in progress around a bit. But in today's flag stop, we

Hello all! As we all return from our work trip to Colorado, we're settling back into the office with plenty of new inspiration, new insight, and a wealth of references gathered on our mile-high journeys. Many of you have asked for this, possibly more than any other piece of equipment in the game to

Just a fun little bonus for patrons: while working out the details for various livery support, this one felt quite nice! --Studio 346

Hello all! It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but even three eyes will have a hard time beholding this thing. Ian is another new face at Studio 346, and his excellent GE shovel nose captures all of the quirks and oddities of the prototype, as well as some man-made horrors beyond ou

Hello all! If you've ever wanted to see in real time what making a locomotive for Century of Steam looks like from start to finish, we've started a new weekly live stream series called Mikado Monday! Art Director Tom initially started this model of a D&RGW K-37, but they have handed the model over t

Hello all! This flag stop actually predates Industries Part 1, but we were so focused on getting that out that we forgot to stay up to date on what the Asset Team is doing. Speaking of, welcome our newest 3D modeler Mark, you may have heard of him! His introductory Blender tutorial was not a donut,

A tribute to Greg Booth's arrangement for this timeless tune, and the first of our Burnham & Run winter setlist! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Season's Greasons, Grievous Festivus, Merry Chrystler, however you celebrate the time when it's hella cold, may the new year bring peace, comfort, and joy

"iunno why, we had the erecting and elevation cards for this thing but it still looks too small." - Tom, discovering 20" gauge mining equipment is in fact smaller than 36"

Hello everyone, we hope y'all in the states had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday! Work is nearly finished on the Industries Part 1 vlog; the systems are there and we're in the process of stress testing them to ensure they're working properly, and commodity meshes are currently being mapped and expor

Our second flag stop video covers a very unique piece of railroad equipment, with an equally unique use case! Today Tom is joined by Brett, who not only heavily assisted in the research for bringing this 1913 Model T inspection car to life, but also talks about the unique experience of restoring and

Spooky scary skeletons ship cedar, spruce and pine! As promised, the first of our new Flag Stop featurette videos is going up for Halloween, and with a new voice! Alec, one of our members of the 3D Asset Team, shares a bit of history and significance of the Russel cars and the challenges of raising

Hope you all are enjoying Spoopy Night! In our prior vid, we put out an open questionnaire to our patrons to gauge how you'd like to see content organized and scheduled in the future to ensure more consistent showcases of our work, and we've taken that to heart faster than a wooden stake through Dra

Player-Placed Pyrotechnics, Poling Polished, Performance Passes, and a Peek at the Production Pipeline! A short but dense mini-vlog this month. Enjoy!

Our July 2025 Dev Vlog, slightly re-edited to tidy things up time-wise and rearrange each section to put the funni stick up front. This had initially started as a Mini Vlog but became a full-length vid, so we'll be back in August with a properly miniature vlog, with the next full feature vlog in Sep

We've had our fair share of highs and lows over the past month and some change; and we hate to delay vlogs (beyond the standard delays) but this one was fun. We hope you all enjoy looking at our 50 Tonner, and our 4-6-0's!

The Boss is now a dad, and The Co-Boss has returned from the west coast, so we're getting the last bits together to film what we've been working on. As a heads-up, we likely won't be showing as much with industries as we were hoping given the team members assigned that were the most affected, but we