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Vehicles & lines

truck$45,000
train$600,000
truck load200
train load1,200

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 Box vans: dry goods
  • Hopper wagons Hopper wagons: grain, seeds, flour and feed, stone, sand, clay, ore and coal
  • Log wagons Log wagons: logs and planks
  • Tank wagons Tank wagons: liquids
  • Flat wagons Flat wagons: steel, building materials, cars and defences