Trucks and trains on freight lines, the only way goods get into and out of storage.
road
Truck
- Price
- $45,000; sells back for $22,500
- Running cost
- $150 a game day
- Carries
- 200 units of one good
- Between
- a site, factory or storage and a factory or storage, up to 30 km apart as the crow flies
- Speed
- 55% of each road's limit, in real seconds at 1x (about 21 km/h across a city)
- Loading
- 0.5 game hour each end (5 s at 1x)
- Per unit of room
- $225 to buy, $0.75 a day
rail
Train
- Price
- $600,000; sells back for $300,000
- Running cost
- $1,500 a game day
- Carries
- 1,200 units: a locomotive and 10 wagons of 120, 190 m long
- Between
- two rail yards (a
Rail warehouse or
Freight yard) up to 60 km apart - Speed
- 70% of each line's limit (56 km/h where it is not tagged)
- Loading
- 2 game hours each end (20 s at 1x)
- Per unit of room
- $500 to buy, $1.25 a day
What a train looks like
A locomotive and the wagons its load needs, in your colour:
Box vans: dry goods
Hopper wagons: grain, seeds, flour and feed, stone, sand, clay, ore and coal
Log wagons: logs and planks
Tank wagons: liquids
Flat wagons: steel, building materials, cars and defences