Railroad Corporation 2 Achievements Guide

Railroad Corporation 2 has 60 plus achievements tied to departments, campaign chapters, locomotives, industry chains, and pure rail spam. The short answer, most achievements unlock naturally by playing through the campaign and expanding smartly, but a handful require specific setups in one mission.

Below is a clean breakdown of every achievement and how to get it, without fluff.

Department And Office Achievements

These are tied to building and upgrading your company structure.

On the way to electrification | Build a research department in your office.
Professor Choo-Choo | Complete ten research projects in the research department.
Science squad | Hire 13 scientists in the research department.
Wolf of Walltrack | Build a finance department.
Creative finance | Hire five financiers.
Swimming with loan sharks | Take out a loan for 1 million USD through the finance department.
Steel tracks, paper money | Issue bonds with a face value of 20 million USD.
Political pressure | Build a lobbying department.
Lobby legends | Hire two top level lobbyists.
Influence expansion | Lobby five decisions in city halls.
Rock on | Build a geology department.
Geode genius | Complete three geology researches.
Field Operative | Fully research the entire geology map in one mission.
Market manipulator | Build a trading department.
Corporate operation | Fully upgrade all departments in the office.
Sky's the limit | Upgrade your office to level 5.
Full house | Have 60 total employees across all departments.

Tip, build departments early in campaign missions so research and lobbying progress naturally while you expand.

Campaign Progress Achievements

These unlock by completing story chapters.

Bread and butter | Complete chapter 1.
Financial Survival | Complete chapter 2.
One for the road | Complete chapter 3.
Timber triumph | Complete chapter 4.
Fantastic forging | Complete chapter 5.
Mission accomplished | Complete chapter 6.
Army can do anything | Complete chapter 7.
Doing your duty | Complete chapter 8.
The spirit runner | Complete chapter 9.
Steam to the finish | Complete chapter 10.

Story side objectives:

Therapeutic waters | Invest in the sanatorium during James Hall’s proposal.
The new discovery | Organize delivery of the specimen to the museum.
The accursed inheritance | Taste the whisky transported by Reeds Co.
A small discovery | Help James Hall complete his research project.
The great whiskey pipeline | Successfully smuggle whiskey across the river.

Just follow mission objectives carefully, do not skip optional decisions if you want these.

Rail Network And Expansion Achievements

These reward raw expansion and rail building.

Megalopolis | Connect five cities in one mission.
A lot of rails | Lay 5,000 miles of rails in one mission.
Roller coaster tycoon | Lay 10,000 miles of rails in one mission.
50 on the rails | Have 50 trains active in one mission.
One hundred strong | Have 100 trains active in one mission.
Dismissed | Destroy 10 trains in a single mission.
All aboard! | Start your first multiplayer game.
Everything's better with friends | Finish a coop multiplayer game.

For the rail mileage ones, pick a sandbox mission and expand aggressively. Yes, it will look like spaghetti. That is fine.

Industry And City Development Achievements

These require specific buildings or chains in the same city.

Aquatic mogul | Own a Fish Farm.
Fish frenzy | Transport 30 carriages of fish.
Refinery saga beginning | Own an Oil Refinery.
An essent-oil part of innovation | Have an Oil Well, Oil Refinery, and Oil Power Plant in the same city.
We will rule this country for now | Own an Oil Power Plant or a Coal Power Plant.
Storage stronghold | Own a Warehouse.
Neatly packed away | Fully upgrade a Warehouse.
Pew-pew | Own an Ammunitions Factory.
Not the wurst day ever | Have a level 3 Sausage Factory.
Warm winters ahead | Have a level 3 Clothes Factory.
This seat is taken | Have a level 3 Furniture Factory.
Time for a hotdog | Have a Bread Factory and Sausage Factory in the same city.
Vertical integration | Have a Grain Field, Flour Mill, and Bread Factory in the same city.
Scholarly success | Own all types of education buildings on the map.

Focus on vertical production chains in one strong city. That knocks out multiple achievements at once.

Locomotive Research Achievements

These unlock through the research tree.

Your first electric engine | Research the EP-2 Bipolar locomotive.
Your first diesel engine | Research the Alco HH 600 locomotive.
The longest train you've ever seen | Research the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotive.
Your first high speed passenger engine | Research the 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotive.
Plenty to choose from | Research all locomotives.
One, two, TEN! | Own ten Ten-Wheeler locomotives.
From blueprint to steel | Have a prototype locomotive.

Rush research in longer missions. Hire scientists early so research runs in the background while you expand.

Contract And Trade Achievements

These require finishing contracts in one mission.

Reliable partner | Complete five contracts.
Trusted partner | Complete ten contracts.
Signed, sealed and delivered | Complete 20 contracts.

Stack short, easy contracts first. Do not ignore them while you focus on rail expansion.

Final Blurb

Most Railroad Corporation 2 achievements come naturally if you fully complete the campaign and experiment in sandbox. The only tricky ones are high rail mileage, large train counts, and full department upgrades in one mission.

Build departments early, stack vertical industry chains, and pick one mission where you go completely overboard with rail lines and trains. That will clean up almost everything. Yes, your map will look unhinged. That is part of the charm.