How to cargo trains work?

[Shrooms Enthusiast]

I put one in my industry, one in my city.. Nothing seems to happen and I can't do a line whatsoever :(

[Droknar]

they work automatically. though it seems industry likes to ignore them sometimes. When my industry imports via ship, I have a cargo rail right at the port but they use the much much much longer highway instead. Exports work from it though...

[Xytop]

Are both cargao stations connected by rail? Is there a connection from your rail to the rail of the map? I'm not sure if the stations are capable of spawning trains when they are not connected to the map rails.

[Shrooms Enthusiast]

yeah both are connected... also connected to the main passenger trains would that be the problem? And atleast now I know its automatic and I dont need to do a line, just need to know why they are ignoring it -_-

[MinionJoe]

Train lines are only for passenger trains for inter-city passengers. Passengers (tourists?) going to and from your city will arrive in default-red trains and will travel to every connected passenger terminal irregardless of the lines you have set up. This can actually cause quite a lot of traffic problems (esp with level crossings).

Cargo trains are a LOT easier to use. They will import/export good to/from your city automatically (when connected to the map's main rail line (thank you, Xytop!)). Note that they will generate a LOT of truck traffic on the road connected to them, but they also generate quite a lot of revenue.

[-Fields-]

i have complete opposite, I have total carnage, to many trains lol

[Shrooms Enthusiast]

Then im just stuck with cargo terminals that do jack F all lol

[Shrooms Enthusiast]

OH GOD I JUST SAW A CARGO TRAIN IM SO HAPPY THAT GREEN SUCKER JUST MADE MY DAY

[VoiD]

It needs a certain amount of goods delivered to the station to fill a train, then it automatically spawns and goes to the neverland

[Swashy Mark]

I noticed if you only have one cargo train, you get flooded with traffic from it.

Once you add a second, it nicely splits the cargo between the two of them. *whew*