Hey All
Sorry if this has been addressed already. I checked around but didn't see it.

My question is in regards to freight stops.
Lets' say station A supplies food which B and C both require. From what I can tell, the only way to deliver food from station A is to send a train from A to B, then back A to refill, then off to C. You can't load a train up with a bunch of food, drop some at B and drop the rest at C because station B will take everything the train has.

Is there a way around this, or just the way it is? I would have imagined with only a limited number of stops a train can, they would have designed the stop assignments to be as efficient as possible.
Thanks,

I'm not sure if it will work, but in some of my errors I've seen something that might be a clue..... Load up 8 cars at A. Go to B and dump all 8. They 8 you dumped should show in the box. Put 4 of them back on the train and continue on to C.

Give it a try.....

I'm not sure if it will work, but in some of my errors I've seen something that might be a clue..... Load up 8 cars at A. Go to B and dump all 8. They 8 you dumped should show in the box. Put 4 of them back on the train and continue on to C.

Give it a try.....
Didn't work. :(

The game was designed to elmiinate this element of micromangement - ship all your goods to whatever city wants them - ignore competing cities, just ship wherever it's more convenient.

The only place where this may be an issue is if you are delivering raw materials to an industry: if it's small/medium it'll take longer to process the goods; but they will *eventually* get produced, so just keep shipping and it'll get moved.

This is one of the better things, IMHO, that SMR has pulled - it's killed this micromangement step which I wasn't ever particularly fond of.

I don't think it's micro managing to want to deliver the same goods to two or more cities in one trip - it's just not efficient to have to make multiple trips.
I find it more necessary to micro manage the balance of number of cars vs weight of freight in order not to proceed at one mph up a moderate grade.
-willie g