Profit and loss for a train

[EMAPhil]

Train has been buying wood and delivering to (my) lumber mill.
Buys at 5000 sells a 1100.
Train list picture shows a massive loss and says I spent more on buying than selling.
Several, but not all trains show same characteristic. I think I did change the routes on these trains at some point.
Am I missing something or is it a bug.

[jhughes]

Is this with the original small wagons or the larger wagons? I'll test it and see. In general I always own my own Wood, so I will have to do this purp[osely for testing

[mkabisch]

Originally posted by EMAPhil:

Buys at 5000 sells a 1100.

Do you forget a Zero? Because when not than you really lost money.
12000$ in towns are the realistical worth.

[Silence Suzuka]

If you are delivering wood to your own mill then you will not pay for it. You need to sell the wood plank and paper produced by the mill somewhere to make profit.

[EMAPhil]

Originally posted by jhughes:

Is this with the original small wagons or the larger wagons? I'll test it and see. In general I always own my own Wood, so I will have to do this purp[osely for testing [/quote]
Yes the train was the original with 6 wagon Memnon . And I did forget a zero should have made around 30K profit per trip.

[mkabisch]

Originally posted by Silence Suzuka:

If you are delivering wood to your own mill then you will not pay for it. You need to sell the wood plank and paper produced by the mill somewhere to make profit.

But the point of Silence Suzuka is right, on your own lumbermill you earn zero, you only put the buyed wood into the mill. This trains never made profit, but there are finance which your earn of the planks, which you produced in the lumber mill and hopefully sells.

[EMAPhil]

Missed that completely. Changes the whole economy for me..DOH

[mkabisch]

Originally posted by EMAPhil:

Missed that completely. Changes the whole economy for me..DOH

That is railway in the good old time, enjoy the magic of the carpets made of steel.
And they dosn't change this is the game plan, this is the magic of this game.

And I sell planks for 48500$.

Little calculation. You buy 3 cars Wood for 5000$/car (15000$). You bring it to your mill (with sell you will get 15000$/car (45000$)). Your lumber mill cutted the wood and get 2 cars plank. You put it on train (with buy you have paid 34000$/car (68000$)). In next city you can sell the plank with 48500/car (95000$). The Gap (95000-15000) 80000$ is your earn over the full cycle and I hope you have cost under 80000$ in this time.