Question about railroads

[jrwsdev]

See screenshot. I previously completed RR in Lynchburg region but it doesn't even show on the map. Not even a small line going nowhere like exists in other regions that dead end. I have the tooltip up to show that. I expanded the RR into Blue Ridge so that forces in VA could rail more directly west by going through northern NC where the line connects up to Bowling Green. BUT from the visual it doesn't look like that is the case. Is this just the way the program draws the rails? Or is something else at play? As long as the two connected regions show that they have the railroad development is everything running behind the scenes using it?

[yellow ribbon]

Easy to explain that, there are NO GRAPHICAL links for every single province programmed.

so, you have the RR and can travel to all other very next provinces with RR within a network, but will not see the black lines...

[SonOfAGhost]

As long as the two connected regions show that they have the railroad development is everything running behind the scenes using it?

As YR said and, more directly to this part: yes.
Graphic would be nice, but tooltip is adequate. Also if you set map to show supply distribution you'll get dark diagonal lines across regions with RR, faster for confirming a longer connection than mousing over each region for, say, the Trans-Canada RR,

[Philippe]

As YR said and, more directly to this part: yes.
Graphic would be nice, but tooltip is adequate. Also if you set map to show supply distribution you'll get dark diagonal lines across regions with RR, faster for confirming a longer connection than mousing over each region for, say, the Trans-Canada RR,

I had always assumed that if you wanted to see the extent of your railroad net you hit the supply button.

But this raises another question. Is that black line that appears between some areas that have developed railroads significant of anything or is it purely cosmetic?

In other words, do units move faster between regions connected by the black railroad line than they do between regions with a railroad net but no black line?

[yellow ribbon]

I had always assumed that if you wanted to see the extent of your railroad net you hit the supply button.

But this raises another question. Is that black line that appears between some areas that have developed railroads significant of anything or is it purely cosmetic?

In other words, do units move faster between regions connected by the black railroad line than they do between regions with a railroad net but no black line?

nay, its a cosmetic matter.

merely the fact that they concentrated on displaying historical RRs (and even here players came up with some examples they didnt get into mind while developing the game)

thus, still to sum it up:

if the tooltip says there is a RR and/or the production gets a bonus from RR there is a RR and you can travel with it.
Alternatively, as SonOfAGhost wrote, the filters will clarify it.

i understood ti still can happen that you have strange announcements for "days to travel" for they are not only related to distance/size of the province. somewhat is coded to calculate this factor.

Edit:

as far i recall, in the 1.01 version was a bug/undesired effect showing RR in the tooltip after multiple development cards of "roads" in colonies, but this was solved!

[jrwsdev]

Thanks for the responses. I didn't even think to view the supply filter. As I get time to play this more and more I'm sure I'll have more questions, but eventually I'll have everything figured out.