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!
I have managed to reset the password for my first account, I can now at least report the problem. Apparently I may be able to change the password in my current game once I get back in. If so, I will change it to something I will know. I’m hoping that I can get them to change the email on my new account, as I want it to be my address. I probably won’t be able to do that until I get in as they will probably think I am trying to break into another account if I don’t know the details.
Sorry, I can’t see my last comment to reply to it. I still can’t get in, is there just an email address to contact EA? I have tried to contact them online, but I can’t remember my login details because I made an account years ago before I couldn’t play anymore using my email. My new account uses a fake email as you can only have one and I didn’t want it to wipe my game. I can’t link my PSN account with it as it needs another account. I can’t use my real email as it is already in use and I can’t use another because I won’t get it. I think that it is ridiculous that you can only have one account per email address, and that it is so difficult to just get in contact with them. I’m already a day behind, and now I’m worried that I won’t be able to get a couple of items in time as I can’t get into my game.
Are there any other Android players that can’t get in? I came back from being away, I got into FG:TQFS with no problems, but now Tapped Out doesn’t work. I have the latest update, as soon as I get to the first screen with EA and Gracie Films, the game just crashes.
How do you get the monorail to connect from Springfield to Springfield Heights? It says in this thread that you can do it, but for some reason i cannot. Any help on this one?
You can’t and that’s my fault…because of the mountains it blocks you out.
Hi, I rushed Brandine’s birth a Spuckler task. It was the third Spuckler. The donuts are gone, but no third Spuckler brood. I’ve already contacted EA, just curious whether anyone else encountered this problem? Cheers!
Sorry, should have read the thread first, apparently I’m not the only one. I’ll wait for the standardised EA response. 😉
If you look through the comments… yes… many.
Anyone Know if the monorail track can go over roads? Kinda pointless system if they don’t!
Yes. I was able to put it on a road.
Hope to have a answer now…
To get the last prise you have to have 8000 blueprints a day!
BUT the Project Board let me only getting 4000 blueprints than a message say he is tired and come back tomorrow…
I always take the biggest reward btw
Thx for replay
You have to be smart about it and trade yours in for the higher values.
And don’t forget you earn blue prints for visiting neighbors, clearing dumped trash in your town and clearing possums.
Unfortunately I don’t have a storage problem because I was taking time to plan out my SH area. Now I can’t buy new SH buildings. Does anyone know if they will be available for purchase again???
You can’t buy anything for SH? Or just the buildings? What exactly is happening?
Yes, I now cannot buy anything new in SH. I have the resources (200 chairs, for example), but do not see a new jet ski for purchase. I can upgrade existing buildings, but do not see anything new for purchase (mailboxes, new mansions, palm trees… anything related to SH). Aarg.
Are you at your limits for the Buildings? The MORE than 10 glitch was patched if you are attempting to push past those again. You can’t now.
As far as the other items, how many Jet Skis do you have? How much Real Estate Points do you have? What happens when you go to the menu and into the Springfield Heights Section? What do you see in that menu?
In the middle of these very busy and exciting times, got a disturbing warning message, that I reached the maximum number of items allowed in the game!! :(( Not surprising because I’m level 56, playing like crazy and… PROUD REAL ADDICT! :)) But I’m afraid even to get now in the game before fixing this. And fast too, having all that daily tasks to do and all. And didn’t even started yet (“technological” problems, now solved). Because is first time happening, I’m LOST now!! PLEASE HELP! Surely must be somewhere a link or post about it. Sorry, wasn’t able to find it by myself! :(( THANK YOU for ALWAYS being here for us!
Did it say 4600 or did it say you can’t add any more items? If it was just the warning you’re fine. Just watch what you add going forward.
YES, did say 4600! THAT freaked me out, especially knowing that will add plenty new things during this new event, not mentioning that SH is NOT finished adding new buildings! Obviously I’ll stop for a while adding in SH. I read that you (I think?) had this problem and regret it for not doing right thing straight away. WHAT should I do? ANY advice? Because my Conform-O-meter is excellent now for a long while and wouldn’t know WHAT to eliminate and HOW?! THANK you again for your time, skill and patience…
Not me, but most players. Just ignore it. Honestly, don’t worry about it at all. You’ve still got at least another 2000 before your game starts to have issues.
My game crashes every time I try to clear the neighbor trash on my Sequelstop. And I mean hardcore crash. Not just freeze, but the music skips, and it continues to play after I close tge app until it gives the notification that it stopped working. Any fix?
Try the basic uninstall/restart/reinstall. If that doesn’t work contact EA.
Here we go. I was able to start the game without any issues. At 2am the game froze up right in the middle of collecting my cans. I closed the game, turned the iPad off for ten minutes. Turned it back on and as soon as I clicked on the app it froze again. I uninstalled, reinstalled, and the sever error. I waited for 30 minutes and tried again. Still unable to play the game. 3am I’m attempting again to play the game. No sooner than I tapped to collect my possums the game froze again. I uninstalled, reinstalled and you guessed it. Still can’t play the game. What’s frustrating is that every task has a time line. And if you are not able to meet the timeline you miss out on the prizes. And being told to contact EA! For what when this is an internal error, not a device issues.
It would be nice to have a server that can handle the traffic for all of the tappers across the world. And IT support that can handle the technical problems that arise.
Food for thought:
If every time a glitch happens to your income being deposited into your account. And you need your money. But you are told to close the account and open it again. But the results are the same. Your loss is there gain.
Wouldn’t that frustrate you?
Yes
Well EA is aware of the problem. But there is nothing that can be done at the moment. They are working on another patch that could take a few hours or longer. In the meantime I am missing out on completing the daily task. This issue has been going on for me sense, 2am this morning. I guess I will play Family Guy. Sad face……
Just a suggestion for next time… try force-closing the app first. That has been working for me when my game freezes at the can/metal collection. You may not have to uninstall/reinstall every time.
Okay so my Brandine was in the middle of Birthing her second Spuckler and she decided to start her own little monorail questline. Instead of putting her away, I decided I would speed up for 20-something donuts because she had been on the task for quite some time (only had 40-something days left). So I sped her up AND… no Spuckler kid to show for it. Just less donuts. I’ve checked my inventory, the character list, searched my town- NOTHING. So… what’s up with that?
It’s a known issue. Contact EA, they can’t replace the kid but they can refund your donuts.
Okay. Thanks Alissa (:
First off thanks for answering an insane amount of questions.
My question to add to the pile: is there a downside to completing a lot of projects in a day (like 1-2 dozen or more)? Iam leaving town today and won’t be back until the 19th and am going to try my hardest to get this acts’s prizes. It might be a hopeless endeavor. Will I miss out on track pieces if I don’t get them from act 1?
Thanks in advance.
It seems like it maxes out each day, but not sure yet. I haven’t fully played around with everything…but really there’s no downside that i can see (beyond maxing out)
Cool…it looks like it maxes out (the boxes remain checked) but you can still tap on the task and get the reward and a new task. I haven’t done it a lot…yet. we will see.
You just complete the Daily Challenge in the Project Board, but that is ONLY the Daily Bonus payout. You can still continue to dump in Materials and get the Blueprints over and over. The Rewards and Requirements just keep changing.
For some reason it won’t let me place Little Lisa’s recycling plant! It hovers with red beneath along the shoreline and won’t mive. I’m guessing this is a glitch, has anyone else had this problem?
It’s not a glitch. It has to be placed on the beach/water but you need to make sure there’s free space. Keep in mind there’s often rocks etc on the shoreline that prevent you from placing things. So you just need to find a free space.
Does anybody know if Grass is voiced?
Brandine is blocked during her pregnancy and thinking about to enhance mydump production.
i dont think that blocked brandine is such a big deal, the task is 30s, you can get a lot of junk in short time with other characters, i wouldnt rush her
Both Jesse and Brandine can collect Metal and THIS makes a lot when you got15 more a hour.
I heard a lot of people dont get the kid by forwarding the birth.
But 100 Donut for a premium char without voice and building is to expensive imho.
So im looking for the answer if he is voiced.
I have a weird bug/glitch since this update on “The Price of Donuts Pt.8”. It says: “Make Apu feed the Octuplets -302/1”, and similarly “Make Snake Hold Up the Kwik-E-Mart -267/1”. I didn’t have them do it before because they were busy in Springfield Heights, but now no matter how many times I have them do these tasks it doesn’t change! 🙁
It’s a glitch. Ignore it for now, should be fixed in a couple of days.
Anyone else is having this problem?
https://twitter.com/Fabinhoguerra/status/631420713749094400/photo/1
Yes, just about everyone. It’s just a visual glitch. Ignore it for now, should be fixed in a couple of days.
The problem is that:
Before
https://twitter.com/Fabinhoguerra/status/631420713749094400/photo/1
After:
https://twitter.com/Fabinhoguerra/status/631509405612249088/photo/1
Like Alissa already stated, a LOT of players are having the issue if the number showing negative. All you can do to “fix” it is to Contact EA or wait for them to send a patch to the game to fix it. Sorry.
Me too! I have grampa with -20 times telling stories lol
Yes, mine’s with Mr. Burns’ 8 hour task, – 2d10!
http://tstoaddicts.com/2015/08/12/addicts-question-corner-monorail-act-1-crashing-brandine-blueprints-negative-tasks-more/
Can i just say how much i love hearing Willie say “I’d rather clean up Puke!” in his funny accent!
The new land would be plenty if it weren’t for the fact they took away the ability to store the SH bldgs. In order to get to a $1B there I will need to finish bldg all the mansions, business centers, etc & there is no space there plus they are so tall they obscure everything. Moving all my completed stuff to the new periphery of Springfield so that pretty much kills that.
And now we have competing tasks for some characters btwn SH & the dump. And why do I have to tap on a bldg to see characters that can do a task & not on the characters themselves?? I wish they would put it back like it was where if a character has a special task or a quest task it appears in gold at the top of their individual task list.
Sick of these ultra-quickie tasks & now they are spreading to other aspects of the game. Not a fan of them or the capped storage limits.
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I agree that the removal of the ability to store SH buildings is a pain. I had been storing buildings as I maxed them out, and now I’m glad that I did.
Now I’m really confused. I had some metal left over from last night and was able to do 2 of the largest projects after collecting some more this morning. That completed the daily task, but also shut down the Project Shop. Is there some sort of daily blueprint limit? Seems sort of strange…
Looking into it
Great! Thanks!
Sorry if this has already been asked (there are a lot of comments!) but does any one know if we have to leave buildings untapped for our neighbours as usual, or if we can tap them all ourselves to collect some much needed cash as with some other events. All the recent updates have taken a real hit to the finances!
Clear as you wish won’t impact it.
OUCH! My Righteousness went down to HALF A STAR!!! I assume that’s because someone vandalized me (grrrr….) but usually one or more of those can happen and it doesn’t tank like that. Does dumping garbage on neighbors count as vandalism?!?
If you haven’t unlocked neighbor actions yet for the Monorail than yes. It counts as vandalism.
I did unlock the neighbor actions. I’m assuming, after reading these comments, that I must have clicked on something and accidentally vandalized when dumping garbage. Argh. I hope they change that.
It’s possible. Still lots of things we’re trying to figure out on our end as well..
Help!?! My game keeps freezing. I close the app then reopen it. Then I can tap a few things then bam it freezes again. 😓
Try uninstalling/restarting/reinstalling see if that helps.
I am at level 56 and have completed the garbage dump. Rev Lovejoy is at -55. No items such as Project Board available yet it wants me to place it. No garbage to collect. Is this normal?.
How we get 8000 blueprints when Project Board only let your earn 4000 ?????
I am at A Rail of one City Par 6. Have completed the garbage dump. Rev Lovejoy is at -55. None of the items such as Project Board are in my inventory so I can’t place it. No garbage to collect. Is this normal?
For some reason on the event tab it says that the event ends 28 September but the countdown doesn’t add up with this, if the countdown is correct then the event ends 15 September. Which is it?
Event ends 9/15
Blueprints limitation – yesterday stopped the possibility to get more blueprints at about 6400 (including bonus and neighbours), today it stopped at 12.331 (including bonus). Is it possible that daily limit for blueprints is 6000? Yesterday I managed to get there through about 10 projects, today only through 2 projects (the top ones, paying over 2000 blueprints each + 1200 bonus blueprints) – and project board is grey again. Would it be possible this way to reach nearly 90.000 blueprints in 10 days???
I’ve asked the same thing. Even clicking on the possums only brings it to about 7000 blueprints/day. Over 11 (or possibly 12) days, that’s only 84,000. But it’s early yet, so I won’t panic…oh, who am I kidding? PANIC!!!!!!!!!
Today I did the rightmost one twice for about 1900~2000 each time and they are already grayed out for the day. Kind of a bummer that I don’t really have much to do the rest of day two of the event.
Hopefully somebody figures this out so we can maximize our earnings.
I reached 8500 the first day, so maybe it was a glitch, because, 6000 blueprints a day for 11 days won’t get you to the final prize.
I noticed the same thing, I was very confused when it told me I could no longer do any tasks to continue getting blueprints. I was going to work on it all day.
Wookie I just wanted to say with you always having these guidelines and just letting us no what you think and thoughts on things in the game really does help players like me out so much so thank you.
Only thing I don’t like is the reset time for the daily tasks, midnight would have suited me better or like tap-ball, 24 hours from when you choose to start. I guess the majority of players are in U.S. so that will suit you as it will be reset when you wake up but in U.K. it resets two hours after I go to work, also short tasks are no good when you’re stuck at work for 10 – 12 hours
also I’m a sucker, already spent about 300 donuts so far, and it hasn’t been going a full day 😥
Apart from that I’m happy so far !
👏🚝🍩🚅 🙂
I don’t know why they didn’t keep the Tap Ball system of daily start times (24 hours from when you start it, not fixed for you). I really did love that aspect of Tap Ball.
Yesssss I was annoyed that they switched it back to the Terwilliger system.
I’m up at 1am local time to see the next challenge.
I’m up anyways, but that’s a bad time.