Update: A Patch just game through (around 5:30pm EDT) that fixes the Conductor Homer Glitch. So you should be able to tap away without issue (ie crashing) now. Note: HOMER CRASH ISSUE…..DO NOT TAP ON HOMER ONCE YOU UNLOCK CONDUCTOR HOMER. You MUST complete more tasks before Homer will work. So again DO NOT TAP ON HOMER ONCE YOU UNLOCK CONDUCTOR HOMER. (i.e Do not do the Train of Fools Task) If you do your game will crash…just be patient and wait….the game will guide you, it always does. I’m working through it myself as fast as I can with super slow internet at work…thankfully it’s on Android now so I hopefully can move a little faster. See below…
Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
It’s FINALLY here! After over a year and a half of waiting (remember Homer teased it way back in Jan of 2014) it’s finally Monorail time in Springfield! 
This is an APP STORE UPDATE so remember to check your App Store/Google Play Store to download, as it will NOT automatically download in your game for you.
As of 12:20pm EDT it’s currently live on iOS, we’ll update when we see it on other devices.
As of 1:05pm EDT it’s currently live on Android.
As of 1:50pm EDT it’s currently live on Kindle Back with more in a bit…just needs to download on my super slow work internet 😉
Homer should auto start things with a task to build the Springfield Dump (which is Free)…after the Dump is placed nothing else will appear in the store until you complete Same As It Ever Was (which comes after A Rail of One City Pt. 4)
Oh and there’s NEW LAND Available (thanks for pointing it out Tapebelt!) two new strips! Details are below…. So first let’s look at what you can pickup in the Store.. 
Springfield Dump- FREE. 8×9 in size. Instant build
After you build the Dump you won’t see anything new in your store until you complete Same As It Ever Was (which comes after A Rail of One City Pt. 4)..then you’ll see this stuff:
Garbage Pile- $500
Recycling Bin- $1,000
Premium
Jesse Grass- 100 Donuts. Helps collect Junk 
Little Lisa’s Recycling Plant- 200 Donuts. 
Krusty’s Drive-Thru Station- 150 Donuts. More items will unlock at a Rail of One City Pt. 8
Now let’s get into the details of the event… 
Conductor Homer
Update: A Patch just game through (around 5:30pm EDT) that fixes the Conductor Homer Glitch. So you should be able to tap away without issue (ie crashing) now. 
You’ll be awarded Conductor Homer (for FREE) early in the questline. However, DO NOT start his task immediately after earning him. If you do your game will crash. Instead you’ll need to build the Monorail station, which is the first prize. (we’ll cover it below in a minute) You WILL be able to do this task crash free once you get enough Blueprints to unlock the Monorail Station (and place it in your Springfield).
“Acts”/Prizes
Much like the past two events this one is also broken up into different releases, or “Acts”.
There are three total Acts for the Monorail Event, with each Act having a different currency/set of prizes.
Act 1 runs for just over 11 days, and ends on 8/23 (which is when Act 2 will start).
Act 1 Currency
The prize currency for Act 1 is Blueprints 
How do you earn Blueprints?
Well you do tasks for Junk at the Dump (more details below in a minute) and then you trade the Junk in at the Project Board for Blue Prints.
You can also earn them via Friend Actions (6 each tap)
And you can earn them by tapping possums in your town (10 each tap) Details on all of these will be below…
Act 1 Prizes
Here’s the rundown of the prizes available during Act 1:
Monorail Station- 3,000
3 Track Pieces- 7,300
3 Track Pieces- 13,650
Station Piece Pack- 24,850 These are pieces to expand your station
5 Track Pieces- 32,650
Station Piece Pack- 43,850 These are pieces to expand your station
5 Track Pieces- 52,650
Station Piece Pack- 63,850 These are pieces to expand your station
5 Track Pieces- 73,600
Ray Patterson- 89,350
Neighbor Actions
Neighbor Actions unlock at Part 8 of A Rail of One City. Once unlocked you’ll be able to Dump Garbage on Friends.
You’ll see floating garbage over their buildings, simply tap on it to complete the action:
For every one you tap you’ll be awarded 6 .
Clearing the actions in your town…you’ll see green coming from the buildings (meant to have that odor look to them) will earn you 1 .
At this point you’ll also unlock the dumping permit…which will allow you to earn double currency from neighbors towns:
90 Donuts- Earns 12 instead of 6 for Friend Actions.
The Dump
This is one of the first buildings you’ll earn for free once you start up the Monorail Event. The Dump is one of the keys to the entire event, as it controls how you get Junk to collect pieces for the Monorail. That Junk is turned into Blue Prints (for Act 1) to earn the Monorail Act 1 Prizes.
The Dump works much like Springfield Heights buildings. You tap on it to send characters to to short 30 second tasks (like the Furniture Shop) to earn Junk. Your storage starts at 2,000 
. As it says above each task is 30 seconds long, so you move pretty quick with it.
You will earn 50 for every Freemium character you send there and 75 for every Premium Character you send there.
Here’s a list of who can go:
Homer (50 )
Lisa (50 )
Milhouse (50 )
Flanders (50 )
Quimby (50 )
Cletus (50 )
Willie (50 )
Uter (75 )
Brandine (75 )*
Dewey Largo (75 )
*Some of you are asking if it’s worth Rushing Brandine’s Birth a Spuckler task. Honestly that’s up to you…if you’re close the rush rate isn’t so bad. But I can’t make that call for you.
Project Board 
The Project Board is where you turn junk (and other items) into currency for prizes!
By tapping on the Project Board (which unlocks at A rail of One City Pt. 6) you’ll bring up the requirements to earn Blueprints, as well as the daily challenge requirement.
Here’s how it looked today: 
As you can see if you turn in 50 you’ll earn 1 , 150 earns you 4 , and 250 earns you 8 .
These will change out as you complete them…so just watch to see how many you need to turn in to earn Blueprints.
And if you complete the Daily Challenge (listed at the bottom) you’ll earn a bonus 1200 !
Today’s Daily Challenge is to hand in 2 more projects and earn 1200 Blue prints. So to earn those blueprints you’ll have to grind out the junk tasks…
Metal Depot 
The Metal Depot is similar to the Dump in that you send characters on tasks to earn you items. Although in this case you’re earning metal: 
This is a little more complicated than the Dump because in order to send characters on tasks here you’ll need Junk from the Dump.
Each character you want to send on a task will require 100 . In turn each task takes 1hr to complete, and doesn’t earn nearly as much metal as it does Junk.
You’ll earn 10 for every Freemium character and 15 for every Premium character.
Here’s a list of the characters you can send:
Lisa (10)
Flanders (10)
Krusty (10)
Mr. Burns (10)
Rev. Lovejoy (10)
Brandine (15)
Jesse (15)
Metal can also be turned into the Project Board for Blueprints…
Monorail Station
The very first prize of the event is the Monorail Station, it’s unlocked at 3,000
Unlocking the Monorail Station is key to several things in the event…first it prevents the game from crashing when you use Conductor Homer (which I know is something a lot of you are experiencing). Second, it’s where the Monorail is! Once you place the station you’ll see the Monorail is on top of it, ready to go!
You’ll be able to place Monorail pieces on your track to get it moving… 
The pieces are FREE and you’ll find them in your move menu. BUT you’ll only get so many at a time. To unlock more you’ll need to earn more Blueprints to unlock Daily Prizes. But your Monorail WILL move along the tracks that you place.
And finally, with the Monorail station you’ll unlock the ability to tap on Possums which will run throughout your town:
Each possum you tap will earn you 10 .
They will spawn every 4hrs from the Station and if you add more tracks you’ll increase the amount in your town. (there is a formula to figure out how many you’ll get based on track amounts, buildings, etc…but really if you add more tracks etc you’ll get more that’s the basic info. And they spawn every 4hrs no matter what).
Ride the Monorail
When you tap on the Monorail Station you’ll notice there’s a action to “Ride”. You can take a Scenic Tour of your Monorail. In order to do this you’ll need to unlock more train tracks…4 more than the initial 3 you’ll get. Once you unlock enough tracks it’ll basically just take you on a ride along with your Monorail.
Lyle Lanley 
Sadly, and not surprising, Lyle is NOT a permanent addition to our games. Just like he *poof* disappears in the episode, he *poof* disappears in the game. He’ll disappear after you complete A Rail of One City Pt. 4 and start Same as it Ever Was.
New LAND!!
Two new strips of Land were added to the game…similar locations to Tap Ball (ugh my account still isn’t caught up from that Land Addition).
You’ve got 1 strip on the bottom (across from the mountains) and 1 strip to the right (across from the water)…here’s the price breakouts:
Bottom: From Water to the Right: $1,500,000; $900,000; $600,000; $400,000; $300,000; $200,000; $200,000; $200,000; $300,000; $400,000; $500,000; $600,000; $700,000; $800,000; $1,000,000; $1,500,000; $2,000,000
Right: From Mountains Down: $176,000; $162,000; $162,000; $176,000; $191,000; $207,000; $224,000; $242,000; $261,000; $281,000; $303,000; $326,000; $350,000; $375,000; $401,000; $428,000; $1,250,000
Part where the land to the right and land to the bottom meet: $2,500,000
So 35 new sections of land for you to play around with! Coupled with the 35 sections added during Tap Ball AND the Springfield Heights land…it should be a while before you run out of room….
And that’s it for now my friends! All of the details behind the Monorail. We’ll breakdown the details in more extensive posts, but this should give you a good overview/rundown to get you started.
What are your thoughts on the Monorail update? Are you excited about how it’s playing out so far? Excited to build your own unique Monorail? How about the prizes? Excited to get Ray Patterson? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
D’oh , just tried to tap on Snowball 11 twice , not a possum !! Time for a break in the cattery , or storage as we know it .
When I go to a neighbor’s town and dump garbage, I do not receive any blueprints….I also bought the permit….is this happening to anyone else?? I am at Friend Level 18 with max friend points, I was getting blueprints earlier but they just stopped….
That means you maxed out actions. You’re only allowed so many taps to get blueprints/day from neighbors.
I’ve noticed that I don’t get a message telling me that my character has finished a task to do with trash clean up, like happens with a SH task and all other tasks. The message my tablet gives (a notice), not anything inside the game itself, just to try to be clear.
Nevermind, I’m getting the messages.
Love this new event, but I’m so not happy that they turned off the ability to store Springfield Heights buildings …
I didn’t send apu to feed the octuplets when the job first popped up because I was using him to craft phones and now he’s got to do it over and over again because the job says -1734/1 is this a glitch??
Also I’m going for the billionaires haven so I’m building and upgrading as much as I can I have 10 level 5 modern mansions and deluxe condos in my inventory and quite a few other things. I can’t add one of my level 5 valet car parks it says sorry hoarder you can’t store this but there’s already one in there! Is there a maximum capacity for inventory?
I sold a few decorations I was storing yesterday but it made no difference….
SH Inventory has been disabled for now. So you can’t store any of those buildings.
As far as the task…yes. Just ignore it for now, it’s not essential to completing anything it’s just a side task. It should be corrected in a day or so.
Wow! The writing that comes up when you collect any currency seems to move upwards irregularly now!
Also, what am I hearing about quests that reward donuts?
(sorry for asking so much but I can’t figure it out!)
Walkthrough will be up soon explaining…if i ever get through all the comments 😉
I love Ray Patterson!!! 🙂 So this is like a blend of Marge vs the Monorail and Trash of the Titans
So are handing in resources the only way to earn blueprints?
That, clearing possums, and neighbor actions.
I am really enjoying this update! Love that it seems the monorail pillars can be placed just about anywhere – roads, land, water. I also really like that the tasks are available by tapping the buildings (like in S.H.) Would love to see EA put in an update sometime to be able to tap a building and see what tasks are available to provide that building’s animation. I always try to send characters on tasks to animate as many buildings as possible. Never commented before, but I really like your site! Thanks for running this blog!
Thanks for reading and glad you enjoy the site.
Odd thing. “Make Moe Spy on Midge” now takes -276/1 time 🙂
I have a random task laying around…
I’m experiencing freezing issues on both my devices. Hopefully EA fixes this soon.
Don’t worry you are not the only one
How do I increase the storage at the dump please,thankyou
You can’t. 2000 is the max. Spend your junk
Be careful to spend it on generating metal, or at least combining it with metal for projects with a bigger blueprint return. If you exchange it for junk-only blueprints you’ll get closed out very quickly from the projects and with a very low daily bp count
This event is ticking along nicely, I already have some free donuts from the Project Management: Metal quest line 🙂
I like the fact that all parts of the Power Plant and Monsarno Research are useful for neighbour visits. Makes a nice change.
Has anyone else lost trash cans? I’m wondering if they disappear after a certain amount of time. Also, only a certain number of projects are allowed per day. Tomorrow I will try and do the higher payout projects.
I currently have all the available monorail line up and running in my city. If you would like to see friend rcbeatle11
It won’t let me friend you. No idea why.
Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but it looks like when you tap on a vandalizable building in a neighbors town, it counts as vandalism. So be extra careful if you have neighbors who don’t like vandalism.
I really don’t like that EA does this. If you don’t have a spray paint can it shouldn’t be vandalism. Ugh!
Is there a limit on the amount of blueprints that can be turned in per day? I have the required items to turn in 2 more but the “Turn In” button is a grey “Completed” button instead.
looking into it
Just saw today update but as usual its power tapping time.
That’s cool you can design the track pretty much around you’re Springfield for the monorail.
Kinda cool. I’m wondering if there’s a should I buy walk through for all the premium buildings.
Getting the new character defiantly atleast for 100 donuts seems pretty reasonable. Tnx and happy tapping.
Very buggy ! Can’t visit any friends just crashes everytime I try. Can’t purchace the Lisa recycling plant can’t place it in town once I’ve chose it. Please fix these issus excited to play the update though.
We’re not EA so we can’t fix them.
BUT try uninstalling/restarting/reinstalling TSTO see if that helps the crashing.
As far as the plant is concerned…it has to go on the water/beach. You have to make sure there’s nothing in the way on the beach, as often times there are rocks etc that prevent you from placing items in certain spots
Apparently I performed too many actions to get blueprints and it cut me off.
Guess the max will be 4 doughnuts/day
I have noticed one interesting thing already. There are some buildings that cannot usually be tapped in neighbors’ towns that can be tapped to “dump garbage” during this event. Some examples – #1 the Nuclear Power Plant, all 3 of the individual parts can each be tapped individually, #2 all 5 of the Monsarno complex buildings can each be tapped instead of just the main building, and #3 the Red Blazer Realty building n Springfield Heights. Not sure, but I thought it also looked like the Deluxe Condo might also allow tapping.
The nice thing about this is that since these buildings cannot be tapped to collect taxes in your own town, they are pretty much always available for your neighbors to tap. Even if I’m wrong about the condo, that’s still 8 buildings that are can be tapped that usually can’t be tapped by visitors.
Seems like the heights buildings might be level dependent, like level five condos. Just my observation.
Expatrie-
Coolest event yet. Love it! Especially pleased with being able to place rail sections on roadways. Will make track design easy and fun. I will say it seems kind of silly that they would include Brandine so early in the event given that everyone who bought her back in the spring would have still been a couple weeks away from birthing the first spuckler. Or it was just a big donut grab. Thanks EA! lol.
I just got the update! Looking forward to tomorrow when I hope to be able to build the station.
Sorry to be negative, but this event combined with the premium real estate tasks is a real pain since many of them overlap.
Also, with this patch they made it so that Springfield Heights buildings can’t be stored. I can’t store any of my condos, mansions, parking garages, etc to make room for the new stuff.
I’m close to giving up on this game that I once loved…
That aside, you guys are doing a great job as usual and I would have been lost without this blog! I can’t stand this new event though in conjunction with Springfield Heights.
More land! Woot! Now I’m really thinking about dropping the bomb.
My game crashes almost every time I try to visit neighbors. Have tried clicking on different neighbors and still having crashes. 😂
Try a full uninstall/restart/reinstall could be just a bad file.
So I’ve updated my game, I got the garbage dump, sent my characters off in the first tasks and now there are no quest lines of which are described above. There is no projects box, like what usually comes up with a new event. I uninstalled and installed my game and no change. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance
Walkthrough will be up shortly, check your task bar icons to see if something’s there you didn’t see the first time…could be something appeared that you missed.
With this update I was kinda hoping for new roads, ones that are all cracked and broken. Or a Mule with a Spinning wheel.
Or a grand piano & snowchains skin for Homer’s car 🙂
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So Alissa, what would you do if they added a Garbage Truck with a large magenta teddy bear strapped to the front grill?
I would first check to see if it smelled like strawberries….
I actually bought a Lotso bear from the Disney store when TS3 first came out, and he actually smells of strawberries. Also bought Bullseye, Dug from Up and the Cheshire cat because it just looked so cool. But don’t call me a nerd!
I stopped getting blueprints from neighbors after about 20 visits. there are still wheelbarrow things that I tap and the houses get the green smoke but no blueprints. Is there a daily limit or something?
There usually is… it varies each event…still verifying it all, but is usually between 60-90 MAX per 24hrs (about 20-30 Neighbors).
For some reason I’m not getting any! I’ve got to the questline, but no blueprints.
My brandline has 15 days left. I wont be rushing, ill wait☺️