How to Purchase a Train in Sid Meier's Railroads

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DIXON GILLETTE: Okay. So what we're going to do now is now that we have a track set up to and from a city or an industry, it's now time to purchase a train. To purchase a train, you'll simply select your Buy Train icon or by pushing R on the keyboard. This will bring you to your main routing screen, and you'll be able to see each depot and annex that you have represented by these green dots. Now, the larger dots are your terminals and depots at your cities while the smaller dots are your annexes. To begin your train routes, simply click on the origin, which is in this case is going to be a city, and it's going to be Yuma terminal. And to load up a good, you're simply going to select the Good icon. So if we wanted to load up passengers, we would push this button, and, as you can see, it's loading up passengers up here in your train manifest. We're not going to load up passengers; we're actually going to load up food. So we're going to click this as many times as we can, and you can see we're all loaded up. Now, you can see our number of food supplies has dropped down to 2. It was a 10, and now it's a 2 indicating that we have eight full carloads of food. Now, you have a couple of options here. You can, again, clear this out if you wanted to restart. And you can also check the Wait Until Full check box, and this will essentiality make your train wait at Yuma terminal until this food supply has filled up that entire train. So you can click this if you want to, but for now, we're going to leave it closed. So once you're done and you're happy with your origin manifest, click close. And now, you'll see that everywhere along your route that's accepting this particular good will be highlighted in this black arrow. So we can see here that Eloy Depot is demanding food supply, so we're going to go ahead and click on that again. And from there, we can see that they don't have any food to bring back. So we don't want to bring back a carload or a trainload of food, so we're going to clear that out. Now, what they do have available to bring back is passengers and mail. So we're going to go ahead and click until we see that the Passenger icon is zeroed out, and now we have four carloads of mail available. So we're going to go ahead and click that, and now our train is full. Now, of course, you see we only have seven cars but we don't want to just load up another car because that will, of course, add weight to our train. So once we're happy with that, we'll click close. And now we have essentially created a route.

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