Trade is local
Supply, demand and prices vary from place to place. A profitable service begins by understanding what is available, what is missing and how far it must travel.
03 · Cargo & industry
Move what each place needs
Read local supply and demand, connect production chains and help towns and industries grow around your service.
Shape the economy
One part of a connected company
Cargo has a source, a destination and a changing local value. Your railroad creates opportunity by linking the parts of a spatial economy that cannot thrive alone.
Your choices here flow into the rest of the railroad—from the capital tied up in construction to the services the network can reliably support.
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- cargo types
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- economic building classes
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- rolling-stock families
Build complete production chains
Copper Frontier follows ore through refined copper and wire to electrical equipment, alongside a broader catalogue of farms, mines, industries and town demand.
Watch settlements respond
Reliable deliveries support industry, town growth, passenger and mail demand, while wider prosperity and depression cycles change the opportunities around the network.