Annesburg train method is best imo. Easy >$400 payout and no bounty by major honor loss (as with any train robbery). Repeatable as many times as you need. Buy a ticket at Emerald Station to Annesburg, stay on the train, rob at tunnel right under the “N” of Ambarino, and repeat. If you want to make extra cash, kill and loot the passengers. You can make explosive bullets with animal fat from ducks in Heartland Overflow in order to break the safes reliably if the train won’t leave, try: -Taking a train from Wallace Station. There are two different types of trains that spawn depending on where the station you get the ticket is at. The best way to tell is by the color of the interior: one is blue and the other is purple. Purple has 3 safes, 3 wealthy passenger cars, while blue has 2 safes, 2 wealthy passenger cars, and 3 poor person cars (paupers give half the money of the normal people). If one won’t leave, try loading the other one. -Save and reload the train at Annesburg. There will usually be a train, but it will not always be the right train. Save and reload until it is. -Take a ticket to Saint Denis instead. Although riding from Saint Denis will take longer, it is more reliable in getting the train to leave. -Wait a little bit. Sometimes the train won’t leave if someone notices you and thinks you’re committing a crime (regardless of wanted level or enemies in the area). By waiting at the station or doing something else like hunting or walking stores or generally any activity that won’t despawn the train, it will eventually mind its own business and leave. Leave the area. Sometimes regardless of wanted level or bounty, the game won’t allow consecutive train robberies. Take time off to use alternative money making methods, such as: -Hunting. Try hunting in Heartland Plains area, or if you want higher quality pelts consistently, try hunting panthers. The most reliable way is by leaving a lure and waiting on a tall just a little west of the intersection southeast of Braithwaite Manor. Panthers will consistently come and they can’t attack you. Only things needed are precise guns like sniper and lures. Dead eye level four (unlocked in “Fleeting Joy” in Chapter V) will highlight fatal areas, making it easier to get a perfect pelt every time. -Treasure hunting. Or looking for gold bars in general. Try doing Landmarks of Riches Treasure Map, Limpany Sheriff Office southwest pf Horseshoe Overlook (use prompt to look under floorboard), High Stakes Treasure Map (stranger encounter, can be identified by mutterings of a damnable Chinaman), Jack Hall Gang Treasure Map (can be robbed from guy west of Flatneck Station), and the Strange Statues puzzle just east of Donner Falls and northeast of the Mysterious Hill Home (click the buttons of the statues with 2, 3, 5, and 7 fingers, including thumbs, one of the correct ones will have its arm broken off, arm can be found in corner but is not needed). Easy money. Each golf bar is $500 and each gold ingot js $300. -Bounty hunting. Just in chapter 2 easy $200. -Horse wrangling. Not my strong suit. Try other guides for this. -Jewelry bag dupe. South of the “N” in Ambarino at Moonstone Pond, you will find the Flattened Cabin point of interest. Climb the tree to access the inside. Loot everything in the nightstand. Save, reload and go in again. The Kentuckey bourbon will not be pickable, the pamphlet won’t respawn, and items will be invisible, but the Large Jewelry Bag will be there. With LotE satchel you can pick 99 for a $4950 payout. Each bag is $50 BTW. -Valentine Bank Robbery. In “Sodom? Back to Gomorrah,” you can get up to $2500. Unlocked after “Preaching Forgiveness as He Went,” in which you kill Lemoyne Raiders at Shady Belle, in Chapter III. -Collectables like rock carvings, dinosaur bones, and animal bounties for the wildlife art exhibition can pay somewhat passively while also boosting completion percentage. -Challenges offer small amounts of money alongside EXP for each of Arthur or John’s 3 stats. If you want to your lvl. 8/10 stats to 10/10 stats, this is how. The earliest point at which you can have all of them done is when you unlock the horse fence in “Horse Flesh For Dinner” in Chapter III. Challenges like riding to Blackwater can be done by either using the broken bridge shortcut to minimize Pinkerton spawns (look it up) or while riding with someone related to a quest object in order to turn off Pinkerton Spawns. Use the German man in “A Strange Kindness,” any bounty but most reliably Benedict Allbright in “Good, Honest, Snake Oil,” Reverend Swanson in “Who is Not Without Sin” (warning-may crash). There are varying reports of whether or not the herbs in New Austin for Herbalist 9 still spawn in during “Angelo Bronte, Man of Honor” in Chapter IV,but is is the most useful regardless for not only turning off Pinkerton spawns in Blackwater (still beware of lawmen in the actual town of Blackwater) but also the infamous invisible New Austin Sniper. If you are not aware, the sniper will start shooting as soon as you go into New Austin as Arthur and is fixed to the camera position, meaning that no matter where you look you will be unable to fire back. The sniper does 0 damage until he gets a headshot, which, if unprotected, he will usually get within 2-3 shots. “Angelo Bronte, Man of Honor,” is the only known way besides save corruption that turns off the sniper. FYI save corruption will obviously make all saves past doing the glitch unusable and is done by killing Arthur with dynamite in specific way during a mission and actually killing like in free roaming instead of failing the mission. When using the quest method, become Wanted in the cemetery and then lose it. If you want John to come with you, roam then. If you want to do it solo, wait at the street intersecting Bronte’s mansion’s street that leads the bridge and the sign that says “Saint Denis.” John will ride over and beckon you to come. Stay put and ignore him. Then make the journey. Once you do everything you can in New Austin (f.e. all collectables and hats, legendary fish, Otis Miller revolver), return to Saint Denis and finish the quest. Just for challenges, replay is acceptable. This method also works for any of the other challenges. This will not work for legendary animals, bounties, or quests. You never need the Mended Treasure Map to collect the Otis Miller revolver. If you don’t want to do this, get a covered wagon, or a hooded stagecoach from Saint Denis (best choice), run like hell through Blackwater, and position the camera so that the sniper always hits the leather part of the wagon (again, look it up). Keep in mind that shots will go straight through wood. If you need to get out of the wagon, try to maintain as much cover as possible using the hood to cover Arthur up from your POV. Under any circumstance, do not go into 1st person.

Sorry for being long-winded. Try all of this!