The dump crashes and railworks stopped working crashes can have sevral causes. They can be video related, memory related, corrupted or missing files can be in play etc

First let's make sure your system can handle the game to begin with. The minimum specs listed on the store page will let you play the game but only on lowest settings without dynamic lights and clouds and all sliders set to lowest possition. If you have Intel onboard/Intel HD video you can stop readig untill you bught a proper videocard The game asks for a medium to high end PC, a proper videocard, for decent play at least 2 to 4 gig of ram (depending on your windows version) and is best run as admin.

Your system is up to spec? then we take the next step
A file verification
1: Right Click Train Simulator in your library list and choose properties
2: Go to the local files tab and click "verify integrety of game files"
3: A new window pops up with a progress bar, wait till it is done. Depending on system and size of TS this might take a while. If any files are missing or corrupted they will be downloaded again.
4: check game if problem is solved
5: repeat process untill count reads 0, you might want to do a reboot after verification to make sure everything is done and seen correctly by Steam (with thanks to Phase3)

Problem is solved...happy gaming
Problem is not solved?

If you previously subscribed to workshop content or installed 3rd party/freeware uninstall/unsubscribe them, go ingame to settings>tools and clear cache, check if problem is solved

Still not solved, a reinstall might help. Follow the first two steps above but now click "remove local content"
Go ito your steam/steamapps/common/ folder and delete railworks then click reinstall

if the location of where to rightclick is still unclear or the location where to install and uninstall DLC watch this video

I just bought route X/Engine Y but it doesn't show

1: Engines: Do you have the proper DLC for the engine, most engines come with scenarios for a specific route, if you don't have the route you might only find the engine in quick drive if it is quick drive enabled or through the editor if it is not quick drive enabled.Also older routes and engines most likely have Standard and freeroam scenarios where the new (2014/15) content only has career scenarios.

2: Routes, see abot scenarios above, if no content is available for a certain tab the route will not show there. However if the route doesn't show at all go to the properties screen>DLC tab and check if your route is listed (top to bottom is latest bought to oldest bought)
If there check if the checkmark is there and listed as installed.
If not listed...contact steam immidiately
If listed and not checked: Obviously check to install it
if listed and checked and marked installed. Uncheck it to "uninstall, restart steam, go back and check to reinstall
If listed, checked but marked not installed log out of steam and restart it then try the uncheck recheck methode metnioned above
If ll fails follow the steps in general crash section

You just installed and nothing is listed nowehre follow the reinstall game instructions in first section

Blurred lines 2D map
This will only happen to those with high end systems/videocards that run absolutely highest settings. The solution is simple but you might not like it. Don't run the ssaa settings, the latest nviidia cards can not handle them somehow in TS

this guide is a work in process

One of the users on the forums found this solution to work for him so I post it as well right here. If the game won't start at all you might want to try this out. Kuddo's to Original poster of this

Originally posted by Marvin_0:

Finally, i got this to Work!!!

i spent many many hours with deinstallation and reinstallation of drivers... i even upgraded my Windows from 7 to 10. Nothing helps. I thought, if i just could see what causes the Game not to start... I wanted to know why the process stops immediately. So iam glad that i found a great tool, which made this possible. It is called Dependency Walker (www.dependencywalker.com it's free!). You don't need to download this tool to solve the Problem. But i used it do discover the Problem. I found out that the railwork.exe could not handle ntdll.dll kernel32.dll and kernelbase.dll

You should find these files on windows/system32 and windows/syswow64 on your pc. In the System32 you have the 64bit Versions (if you running a 64Bit System) and in Syswow64 is a 32-Bit Copy. Because Train Simulator is an 32-Bit Application, we concentrate on the syswow64 directory. I opened the Console and opened the syswow directory in it (cd c:\windows\syswow64).
Then i registered the dll files again by typing in "regsvr32 ntdll.dll". I also did this with the other 2 files. Even if windows prompted an error message, the files were registered in the system. I checked this with the dependancy walker.

This Problem was solved, but i coud see that at least the gameloader.dll Module in the Railworks (plugins) Directory stops when i try to run railsim.exe because it couldn't handle another dll file. It was msvcp100.dll

I found out that a 64-Bit Version of msvcp100.dll was installed in the windows/syswow64 directory. I don't know how this happened (it has to be an mistake within microsoft updates), but a 32-Bit file is needed at this place.

That was the Key. The game could not run, because a dll file was a 64 bit version instead of 32, which the gampe simply can't handle. So all i had to do is to change the file to its 32 bit version. so i downloaded a 32-Bit version on dll-files.com . Because Windows 10 does not allow me to change or manipulate files in the windows directory, i pasted the msvcp100.dll in the railworks directory. And voila: Everything is working now.

So:

1. register the ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll and kernelbase.dll again in the system, by typing in "regsvr32 (filename).dll" in the Command Prompt. Don't forget to go to c:/windows/syswow64 directory first!
2. download 32-bit version of msvcp100.dll from dll-files.com and paste it in the railworks directory.
3. Enjoy!

Maybe this can help others, not to spent 15 hours or more, to get this Game working... :D

Another tip from a reader

HUNcamper 55 minutes ago
Hey man! I got this game today, and I simply couldn't get the game to launch on Windows 10, 64 bit (it prompted me an error message that it put a dump somewhere), so I was checking if anyone had this problem, and surprisingly noone did. So, after about 15 minutes of searching, I finally opened config.xml (inside the RailWorks directory), and changed <m32Bit>true</m32Bit> to <m32Bit>false</m32Bit> . After that, the game launched fine! You should add this to your guide. Self-explanatory, but this only works with a 64 bit OS