How you're paid

Amount, cargo, distance and time.

You are paid when cargo is unloaded at a station that accepts it. Four numbers are multiplied together.

• Distance is measured between the two stations, tiles across plus tiles up, not along the track. A winding route pays no more.
• Time counts from loading to unloading. Each cargo pays in full for a number of days, then a little less every day.
• Fares stay the same over the years.
• Passengers delivered to a station that covers an attraction pay 30% more. See Attractions.
• On a route whose subsidy you won, your deliveries pay double for 2 years: Subsidies & requests.

The rate and time limit of every cargo are in Cargo table.