Assigning Freight for a stop

[techiedude39]

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,

 

[Snoopy55]

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.....

 

[techiedude39]

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.

 

[Krupo]

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.

 

[willie g]

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