thrownnightmares asked:

How do you decide what towns or areas to put stops in? Especially if developing new rail lines or extending existing ones? Is it by something like population, demand, or where existing tracks are or are there other factors?

The population centers along existing railroads and where stations historically existed are the 2 biggest factors in deciding station locations, but we also factor on land availability and the size of a city, additionally we always can do infill stations if we miss somewhere important like the possible new station in Juliet on the Lincoln Service or possible Oxford station on the Cardinal