trains not picking up cargo when city needs it

[xkilgarx]

i have trains going to logging camp and my city needs log to turn into lumber but no logs getting there why?

[Ubeenhad]

I have the same problem. Station has logs and cattle available but only delivers cattle. The city had 56 cattle in stock the meat industry was maxed out 72/72, and constant 8 car cattle deliveries. The same city has a saw mill and no logs in stock or delivered. I've seen the same thing happen with milk.

Also has anyone experienced disappearing train lines and/or trains?

[magisthan]

maybe because your city does not need lumber because it is to small or there is no other city that need lumber either. The industry will not start to produce if there is no need for it.

[Unperdants]

Same problem here. Trying to get logs into Paris. Paris showing 55 "delivery by train" with no stock in the city and something like 20% fulfilment. Same problem in other cities.

I've put a rail line in directly from the nearest logging camp as it looks like deliveries aren't getting through, but it leaves empty and will not fill if I set minimum carriages. My whole network is suffering these issues, with "delivery by train" showing high numbers, but no stock getting through. The stock is waiting at the sources - logging, grain, corn, etc. but just won't be delivered.

[jhughes]

Originally posted by Unperdants:

Same problem here. Trying to get logs into Paris. Paris showing 55 "delivery by train" with no stock in the city and something like 20% fulfilment. Same problem in other cities.

I've put a rail line in directly from the nearest logging camp as it looks like deliveries aren't getting through, but it leaves empty and will not fill if I set minimum carriages. My whole network is suffering these issues, with "delivery by train" showing high numbers, but no stock getting through. The stock is waiting at the sources - logging, grain, corn, etc. but just won't be delivered.

This is caused because you have a backup going into (or at) a warehouse somewhere in your system that can supply Paris. Somewhere in your network are all those lumber waiting for you to get them to Paris.

This Video, if you get all the concepts, will help:

https://youtu.be/InuuHj50lqs

Once you really understand that one, look at this one:

https://youtu.be/CjrPmWfGbpk

You will then understand how warehouses work in RE2.

If you set up a warehouse and if you set up in a way for that warehouse to get items to a second city, the rural station connecting to that warehouse will start producing items for that city as well.

If you hover over any item picture (in this case Lumber) in a warehouse or on a train it will tell you where those items need to be sent. You then need to set up the proper train line capacity to ship the items where they need to go.

Go back to any city where you have a warehouse that can take Lumber, hover over the lumber in the warehouse, it will tell you if any are trying to get to Paris. If you don't find any .. go to the rural stations that provide the lumber and look at the trains there. Somewhere you will find a slowdown and all your 55 lumber. Add enough capacity to the train lines to get your lumber to Paris .. problem solved.

[Unperdants]

Thank you - I really appreciate your detailed reply!

I've ended up deleting all train lines in the main stations and re doing everything to see if I can see the bottle neck.

[pete]

Same problem here. I understand the reason, but cannot find the backlog/bottleneck.

[Ucitylek]

same here. the city wants the sugar, no train is delivering the sugar at the moment, the warehouse is full of sugar, but no train is picking the sugar up. is happening in India while trying get Mysore to 80k. I no longer believe it is possible

[Oakshield]

Check the warehouse and hover your mouse pointer over the sugar. It should tell you how much sugar is send where.
If there's sugar available to be send to that particular city, check the route from that city to the warehouse and make sure it's picking up sugar in its route. If it does, but never loads the train, check which goods the train are loading and how many.
It's very likely your train is loading so many goods there is no room for the sugar left.

The solution to that, set the train to manually load the goods from the warehouse, add another train to the route or simply bypass the warehouse and deliver the sugar from the plantation to multiple cities using a single route.

The latter may work best, as it's often advised against using a warehouse to transfer the first required goods (beer, grain, corn, sugar, (cloth - just not in this scenario - ), meat, Rice - in this scenario - logs) because the demand is that high, it may mess up the entire system.

Warehouses are usually better suited for the next tier goods like clothing, planks, furniture, chemicals and so on.

Thorin

[Metalhead123]

You can prioritise a freight product from the station in question. Click on the station and click edit station. You can change the prio of freight to a green arrow which gives it highest prio. You can also turn off other products so they don't get picked up at all.

This technique is covered early on in the campaign chapter 1. I think it asks you to pick up logs from a nearby rural station to be delivered to Boston. It asks you to prio Logs over cattle so the logs get loaded instead of the cattle.