The manufacturing supplies from the glass works are going to be shipped along our new line to a stockyard down south. In the near future, we'll ship livestock here from the mixed farm area. The resulting food will be shipped north to Westwood. This was a very expensive line to build, as a big part of it went straight through more farmland.
- or alternatively, the meat line
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Speaking of Westwood, we've moved in too late! The blue player has started services in town already, as you can see here.
- I've said it before, you can't trust blue!
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He's shipping in food from a harbor down west.This may seem bad for business, but in the long term the extra growing potential should ensure competition isn't a big deal, at least not in cities. We add a horse carriage to service the town. It'll definitely run at a loss, but it will keep ratings up, which we will need to do all the construction we need (town authority is set on hostile). Our passenger station in the east isn't connected to anything yet, it was built to reserve the space. As soon as Westwood starts growing, we will likely connect it up to Forest in the east, which is another desert town.
Westwood also holds the only junkyard in the neighbourhood, but there's no steel mill nearby yet for it to be of use.
I end with an overview of our lines in 1892. We've seen plenty of construction, and now have a grand total of 12 trains! Our biggest earner is the lumber train, with over $300k per year. While that seems like a lot, adding an extra line to service new industry still costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, easily.
- grow, grow, grow!
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You can see the blue lines in the west.
I've said the game was on hard, and the count shows it: 9 bankruptcies so far. Some of those were novices, but others were veteran players.
