Line income
How much a line earns per trip and per year, before and after the vehicle's running costs.
How this works: the payment formula is read from the game's own script, so the numbers match what the game pays.
Your line
Per unit delivered
$36,094
Per full trip
$2,887,500
80 units
Income per year
$69,300,000
After running costs
$69,036,312
$263,688 a year to run
Normal difficulty income. The game pays by straight-line distance between stations plus 8 m for every metre climbed, not track length, so detours never pay more. Deliveries that miss the cargo's time limit aren't modelled.
Income per unit per km
One unit carried one straight kilometre on flat ground, normal difficulty.
| Cargo | Per unit per km | Per unit, 10 km |
|---|---|---|
| Beverages | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Books | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Bricks | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Cement | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Chemicals | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Clay | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Clothes | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Coal | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Crude Oil | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Dyes | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Fabric | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Fertilizer | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Fish | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Fuel | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Furniture | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Glass | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Grain | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Iron Ore | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Logs | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Machines | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Meat | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Paper | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Passengers | $3,609 | $36,094 |
| Planks | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Plastic | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Rubber | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Sand | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Sawdust | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Sheet Metal | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Steel | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Stone | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Canned Food | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Tires | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Tools | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Vegetables | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Vehicles | $3,800 | $38,000 |
| Wool | $3,800 | $38,000 |