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In opemTTD you are always under time and cost pressure. This is especially true in the early parts of the simulation. You have to quickly get the economic engine running. You want to build in key routes before your competition so that you have open terrain to work with.
In this section we will introduce two basic prototypes for rail transportation:
Basic "mainline" with one train
Two train mainline with a siding so trains can pass
The quickest way to connect a resource site, for example a coal mine, with a communing site, for example a power plant, is a simple mainline of track connecting two stations (see Figure 1, “Single Track Mainline with 2 Stations” below).
This operational patter has this list of components:
Two stations. Two single track station, each 3 to 4 squares long, are built. One is placed next to the resource site. The other next to the consuming site.
Mainline. Railroad track sections are constructed to connect the two stations.
Maintenance depot. A maintenance depot to service the trains is placed on the mainline of track.
Train. A single train is placed into operations. This will have the following components:
engine. A train engine capable of pulling the planned cargo.
Rail cars. Rail cars that carry the correct material. For example, in our mine to power plant route that would be coal cars.
Operational orders for train. the final component will be instructing the train to go to the resource station and load the cargo, in our example coal, and then go to the consuming station and unload.
Now we have an operation patten that we can quickly implement and use over and over. When we see two site that need cargo moved between them we know at once how to start.
