Commercial towns

These are towns where mass trading is carried out between trains. For details, see trade goods.

Interactions
First select the type of transaction: purchase or sale of merchandise, all the products will then be displayed on the screen with their prices (of purchase or sale, according to the previous selected icon) and their quantities. To gain more information on a product, click and keep the button pressed. Then use the “PLUS” or “MINUS” icons to fix the amount of the transaction; quantity and price are displayed at the same time by two meters. To complete the transaction, click “OK”. The currency used is, of course, the Bak.

To purchase a product, you must have sufficient space to store it (that is a goods wagon or tanker, according to the product, and it should be empty, or holding the same type of goods). There are 15 different products to trade. They vary with local conditions and supply and demand. For these reasons you can gain many baks of lignite by clever trading: always note what a town is selling, and at what price and what it has not got – in fact, a notepad and pen will be handy throughout the game. Once you have bought a certain product in one town, the town will take quite a time to re-supply itself with the same product.