I was wondering if freight could be transfered from one train to an other.

For example:

I have a 2 coalmines on 2 different locations (with both a station) which transfers the coal to a station in the middle of nowhere (Say station X) . The delivery X is done by a train of course.

And a other train is bringing the coal from X to the city.

Kind Regards,

Reijnemans

Besides, cargo is programmed to take the fastest route possible, that means that when necessary it could switch lines. However, I am not sure if you get to say at which stations the line switch happens. If this is true, with some clever planning you could create transfer stations similar to the ones in OTTD.

Mmm theoretically I think it’s possible because I think there’s an ‘Unload All’ option to add to a line, I’m not sure though because I don’t owe the Beta and never payed attention to it. This was in fact an option in Transport Tycoon.

Actually I hoped that this is done automatically, same as in reallife, when I go from a to b its possible I switch trains multiple times. This way I could get my cities a lot cleaner and also safe me some in game money 🙂

If it genuinely works that way, it should be a rather elegant system.  If your two-stage route isn’t being utilized, it’ll be down to not having planned it efficiently enough, or not having realised that a better alternative exists, rather than from not having configured it correctly.

I just saw a similar scenario yesterday in Zwerg Tube’s video series, which is in German. I believe it’s number 22 or 23? He connects a second oil source via road vehicles to a rail station which was already carrying oil from a different oil source to a refinery. The newly connected source was not delivering oil anywhere (presumably it was too far away to even deliver anything on foot) and eventually was running full production. Now, oil was being carried from the source to the rail station and waiting at the station to be carried by train to the refinery. So two things happened: by connecting the  refinery with a bus freight line to the freight train station, the delivery time of the oil was reduced enough to make production start up again. This required the software to recognize that a transfer of goods at a station as part of the path as necessary. I don’t see why this same process wouldn’t occur for an all rail network.

Hope that helps!