Depends on if you want a cool looking train who barely makes money just cause it looks great or if you wanna min/max and make billions. The trains are great at keeping it hard to make a profit so it can be great if you like the challenge.

I Think its fun to figure out how to make trains viable at delivering goods. I have a few plans, I wanna try a track loop through 6-7 towns in a circle and deliver some goods in all of them. Have yet to test this out tho. pickup goods->town1->town2->town3,,, and then return and refill after the last town.. I hope it works, if not it will be fun building it anyways 😀

I think you can only use trains if you ignore industries in the path and choose one far away. Otherwise is pointless.

The industry code should change to something more similar to Locomotion.
1) Industries should disappear if not used and new ones appear in other areas.
2) THe map should have a terrain where mining is possible. Not just everywhere.
3) At least a bit of materials should be released just by making a line. Like 20, 25. And increase with demand.
4) Possible for create industries with players money.

Long industry chain will only be possible if industries can appear/disappear. If you get a long industry chain like in Cargo Mod, you will have like 2 or 3 Steel Mills only for a huge map.

As I said I have just thought of this, not yet tested it,, but to have one train for each town who at max will need 50 goods per year seem pointless.

Maybe since you have played much and have experience you might consider answer my other topic as i am kind of stuck. I just cant figure it out.

For the passenger trains you should create full lines which span at least 6-7 stations and run it with 3-4 min frequency. Then branch of couple of shorter branch lines like 2-3 cities in each and you are rolling in riches.

But first you need to consider where you want this line, start it out with horses and later upgrade them to buses and from Mack you should change over to trains providing you have the money to do at least 3-4 cities on one go. How the game works is that there is no demand for travel before the option is offered. When it comes, there is no limits, other than 20 min rule, where people will go. i’ve had people living in city 1, shopping at city 2, working on city 3 and leisure on city 4. And city 4 has been at the end of the branch line, i change and 2 stations away from the city this person lived.

With goods things are bit different, but if you use a steel mill, feed it from coal and iron mines with trains to make the basic profit. Then have the goods delivered to 2 or 4 cities by train. Cities, which are part of your passenger network and with local buses / trams to keep them growing. Then run the goods delivery on 1 or 2 trains, serving 2 cities each. Pendel the train to swing between 2 cities via factory. So line looks like City1 – Factory – City2. This way you keep a good enough frequency and maximize the usage of one train. My goods train on hard difficulty made 1.5mil profit yearly, and combined iron/coal feeders made 3 million. Passanger trains made between 3 and 12 million per line.

On medium difficulty and large map, i managed to pull 90 million profit yearly only on passanger trains. Had 5 longer lines and 3 branches. Can post the pics if people are interested to Steam and write a little explanation how it was done.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=364511010

Oil to the refinery, goods back to oil well, disrtibution with lorries from there.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=361614663

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=361614032