Licenses Overview

Licenses are the means of growing one's career as a train driver in Derail Valley. They allow the drivers to take better paying orders and use better locomotives, among other things. Licenses can be bought at the career manager machines, with the money earned from completed orders. There's a caveat however - the more licenses one owns, the more they need to pay their fees. Licenses increase the driver’s copay and also reduce their time bonus deadline.

Some licenses have prerequisites, requiring the driver to own other licenses before becoming purchasable themselves.

Before deciding on a purchase, the driver can print the license sample at a career manager for more information, to see its effect on copay or time bonus, for example. The driver can only buy licenses if they have no pending fees.

When a license is purchased, it is issued as a printed document. The driver doesn’t need to have license documents on them to use them, but can instead keep them safely stored at home.