So a recent bugfix update for Railcraft was not released to the public because it didn't meet a patreon goal. Now, I have no issue with developers wanting some kind of reward for their work - but the kind of attitude shown here doesn't feel healthy for the modding community.

But rather than complain about it, I set about making this pack - a pack that proves that we don't need Railcraft in order to enjoy (almost*) all the same features that it provides.

*There may be a very few missing features here and there, but the majority of the mod's features should be covered here.

Mod list, features provided or other reasons provided:

Better Boilers - provides the Railcraft Steam Boilers to produce steam

Better Railroads - provides many additional railtypes

Cart Blanche - provides many additional carts, including ones for energy transfer

Charset Lib - required library

Charset Transport - cross rail and dyeable minecarts

CodeChicken Lib 1.8+ - required library

CoFH Core - required library

CoFH World - required library

Extra Rails - provides additional railtypes, including teleportation rails

FFS - Fancy Fluid Storage - provides freeform multiblock tanks

Immersive Engineering - provides the Coke Oven and Blast Furnace

Just Enough Items (JEI) - for recipe lookup

Reborn Core - required library

Redstone Flux - required library

Shadowfacts' Forgelin - required library

ShadowMC - required library
Thermal Expansion - provides the steam dynamo to make RF from the steam, as well as an augment to the Redstone Furnace to produce Creosote Oil

Thermal Foundation - required library. Also ores, but thankfully not Poor Ores.

U Team Core - required library

Useful Railroads - provides high speed rails

Added in 1.0.1:

Signals - provides a signalling system

Steve's Carts Reborn - provides a modular cart that can act as a steam/electric locomotive, a tunnel bore, and more besides.

Thanks to astewen for the suggestions!

Added in 1.0.2:

Entity Spring - allows for linking entities together, but mainly carts, allowing for trains again!

Thanks to shandoo573 for the suggestion

Railcraft Minus Railcraft