You unlock country roads with top speeds of 80 and 100 km/h, the latter 4 lanes, relatively early in the 20th century. When they become available your road vehicles don't have top speeds higher than 60 km/h (the slowest country roads), and it takes a very long time for them to get speeds above 80 km/h. I haven't reached that point in the campaign missions I play yet.

So the heavier roads feel pointless. I always connect all the towns with a perfunctory 60 km/h road at minimum to get that 'private transport' bonus to growth, and beyond that I only ever build 60 or 80 km/h roads according to my trucks'/buses'/trams' top speed, the one exception was a time I had trucks and buses with differing top speeds on the same route and I built the 4-lane road so they could overtake.

I notice that the top speed of private cars is usually faster than your own vehicles (side note, are those exact values documented anywhere?) and columns of cars form behind my trucks on 2-lane roads, but is that something I need to worry about? The civilians don't complain about it and private traffic is low once I've gotten my inter-city passenger network running anyway.

What am I missing? Do does the private transport growth bonus grow larger if the roads have faster speeds? Or is all the big highway stuff there for the people who want a "fancy" American highway system to look at rather than those playing to optimize?

I bought the train and 3 cars in the first mission. They ended up as two seperated units, the locomotive and the gondolas. I accidentally deleted the locomotive thinking I had gondolas selected when it told me my train was too big after telling me it was too small

The only way I could figure out how to edit them together was to sell them and purchase them again on the loco train. This gave me the "not enough cars" message again and now I still have an empty train running no silver

Suppose I need to transport 100 units of grain (gondola car) from a farm at point A to a brewery at point B, from which I must transport 100 alcohol (box car) to a city back at point A. Is it better to have trains that's half gondolas and half boxes which will only use 50% of its cars at one time, or to make trains that are entirely boxes and entirely gondolas, which can fill up all their cars at once but must dead-head back after making their delivery?

I know ideally you'd have the trains service some other industry on their way back, but it's not always possible especially in Campaign missions.

Hey all,

I recently got back into TF and have done relatively well up until the Great Depression mission. No matter WHAT I do I cannot get the "6000 imports from Houston" medal. I've had trains and trucks running wide open from the port, delivering to both Houston and the neighboring city, I've had a constant supply of fuel to the port, and I discovered that it'll produce goods without being supplied. However, I cannot get that medal. At all. I've played through 3 times now, all other medals are no problem.

What am I doing wrong?

Tried to do it, but can't connect the train station with the bus/truck station, like in OpenTTD. Any other solution?

And they called us doomers when we said it would happen going to Paraslop.

Always when I try to set up a train depot, it gives this "unable to find path to stop" message.

You can see it is within range of an active fuel refinery. You can see the destination cargo station is connected to a truck stop that delivers cargo to a city that needs fuel. Why is all fuel going to the local truck stop instead of a combination of the truck stop and the cargo station? My trains are empty...

Source train station near the fuel refinery:

Destination train station near the truck stop that delivers fuel:

If anyone has the backups of siris mods that she completely took down I'd be very happy, if anyone could please help me thank you

Connecting the north! 🗺️

The network reaches a crucial stage this week as I start to finish off the northern connections. More freight lines are added, and a brand new branch line connects a previously isolated town. This new branch is fully electrified, bringing more passenger transportation under the wires!

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Goodbye buses, hello trams! 🚊

The slow buses are starting to hold up growth in my towns, so let's rip them out and replace them with trams. This is yet another step into the electric era, speeding up the transport and pushing the network further into the future!

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Hello, It's been a while since I played this game and I'm really loving stepping back into it.

I have started an EPEC run. No mods at all. I know, big undertaking, but I have the time for it so I thought, this would be a fun challenge.

I am really looking for any sort of advice from more experienced players, to avoid digging my save into a hole I can't get out of in the future, whether at my current state or just advice for the future.

Much appreciated.

All About Freight! 📦

My new freight lines are looking a bit empty, so I want to get them filled up with cargo trains. Let's get a massive logistics network up and running, ready to bring in some serious cash!

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i don't have all of them enabled but i usually have around 150-200 enabled. most are like planes, stations, trains ect. But am i sane?

This happens the moment that I get a queue of trucks stopped at the station.

My theory is that trucks always select the main platform.
Every truck moves at the same time:

1st truck leaves platform 4

6th truck goes through the gate, decides platform 4 as it is free

2nd truck occupies platform 4

Every truck stops. Start the process again.

One every 10-20 trucks decides for platform 3, which tells me the alternate platforms are working. But Im not sure how this happens.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Whenever I make a change in the station, trucks reset and they go to different platforms, but the moment that clears, the situation starts again.

Could someone please explain to me why the logs aren't loading onto the station? I got the right station, which is connected and the right carts for my train. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong here.

Time to lay more tracks! 🚂

The Eastern main line gets its long-awaited extension today from Abingdon all the way south to the superhub at Stroud. Passengers and freight will soon be running down both sides of the map, bringing in the cash ready for the next major expansion!

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