Railway Empire 2 Fundamentals Episode 3 Warehouse Transfers and The Country Warehouse

[@todonomore]

Man, when you started explaining things, I suddenly had an urge to legitimately subscribe for the first time lol. This felt right at home after bearing through 5 other vids of people basically just playing the game for an hour with little to no sweet-wisdom detail.

[@Adekyn100]

What's holding you back?

[@todonomore]

@@Adekyn100 had to clean up almost 20yrs of empty-hearted subscriptions so your content could be front and center 😁 Jokes aside though, I've never cared about "subscribing", but can honestly say I could see myself finding new (and old) games to enjoy if I've got thorough understandings of things with your help.

[@gustavomendessundfeld64]

That in-city transfer between the warehouses saved my game! Thanks!

[@Adekyn100]

Glad I could help!

[@tomasbohunek9698]

Can you share where it had helped you? I'm just getting started but I feel that having 2 warehouses for the same goods wastes the warehouse. I use 2nd warehouse to get more types of goods into the city.

[@DrSoda.]

I'm thinking about buying this. I'm impressed by the massive amount of content within the game. Thanks for the video. God bless. Jesus loves you!

[@Adekyn100]

I'm glad to do the videos for folks who enjoy them. I would highly recommend the game. There are many hours of good game play just doing the campaign and the scenarios in the base game.

[@DrSoda.]

@@Adekyn100 Thank you, I will most likely purchase.

[@stevegooch1776]

Try making Jackson terminal a Warehouse with sugar, corn, beer, meat, and cloth. You can add one more later. Put one station in each city in the middle for your express line, double track between all three cities for that line. Then add a line from Jackson terminal to each city running freight back and forth. Put maintenance in Jackson terminal set to 100% and one in the middle cities, ive ran this from London to Carlisle in mission 2 with 4 trains hitting every city. Keep freight coming on the outside platforms, upgrading to 3 stations one express 2 freight on the outside. On the other side you end up with your secondary building items in another warehouse, lumber, alcohol, clothes, dairy products, needing logs sugar fruit vegetables with a third warehouse finishing off all the end city goods. You can start with single track one train, going to and from the warehouses and then work up as needed. A lot less trains are needed in this game by far. I usually don't wirry about double trackw and trains until a city is up to 60-70k really. One train seems to handle it fine running full from warehouse amd bringing back whatever is needed in prosuced good from the city. You did this at the end. That works and it works really well with a lot less trains

[@MrGoromous]

Thanks for the video, your guides have been super helpful in learning the game's mechanics, far more-so than just relying on the in-game tutorial. Thank you.

[@Adekyn100]

Glad to help!

[@crazybub11]

Just wanted to say, I love your vids on RE2. Can’t stop watching, please keep ‘em coming.

[@Adekyn100]

Thanks. Glad you like them.

[@BiffGimble]

I just got RE2 a couple of days ago. Thanks again Adekyn for the continued great content! Warehousing was pretty confusing imo, but your explanations have made it much simpler. Looking forward to trying some of your strats. Also, your Airplane CEO videos were a huge help with the game mechanics. I see you have a series on Tropico 3, which is on sale on Steam right now, so I know I can glean from you strategies and mechanics that these game are stingy on sharing.

[@Adekyn100]

Glad to be of service. I like RE2 very much. You should enjoy it. Tropico 3 is a great game. I highly recommend it.

[@AraRoodbuik]

Thank you. It couldn't have been explained better. May it be educational for many.

[@Adekyn100]

Thanks.

[@Knechx]

Thank you brothta! It's feels good to actually see the game play get better, in my on game after soaking up all this info I can. ❤🎉😊

[@Adekyn100]

Perfect. That's what I like to hear.

[@TheRAMBO9191]

Probably reduce in game music n sound so we can hear you better. Less background noise, the better👍🏻

[@Adekyn100]

I struggled with the sound on early videos with this game. It slowly improves.

[@stuartdenton8537]

With the station bonus buldings, it seems as though provided you can grab all three station slots before a competitor; you could earn a ton of money by having a dedicated passenger station, mail station, and freight station. Although the connecting track might get crazy. (would aim to thread passenger and mail trains onto the same intercity lines)

[@TazzSmk]

having dummy empty station occupying city is good enough (and much cheaper) than buying out prosperous competition xD

[@tomasbohunek9698]

Yup that's a good strat. But why dedicated mail station? Just have a mail train, no?

[@stuartdenton8537]

@@tomasbohunek9698 because of stations only having 2 expansion slots and there are two passenger buildings and one mail building, so maximum revenue would need specialized stations

[@las8178]

The idea of one big warehouse is very cool. I will definitely try something like this.

[@willsteuer1621]

Never build a warehouse in a city. Build warehouse Depot's along the main freight line between cities. Save the city station for Restaurant and Shopping mall for your Express service, you will make tons on money.

[@Adekyn100]

Good approach.

[@billjohansson88]

Yep, a good rule of thumb to use as the bonus income from the Restaurant and Shopping mall outweighs everything else. The only disadvantage you get from building WH outside a city, is the loss of not being able to transfer goods automatically between two stations without first connecting the two stations in your network as point to point.

[@eowynrohan7550]

Now we can put 3 stations in each city just like before (RE1) we could put 2 stations plus a warehouse, so now everything is more flexible and better organised. As before we immediately set up two small stations in each city to prevent the opponents from occupying our city with their station, now we can put a station / warehouse for freight trains and one for express trains set up with dedicated services... Start I like this RE2! Thanks for your precious help!

[@scn123169]

Thanks Adekyn, great vids!

[@Adekyn100]

Glad you like them!

[@RigvedaDeshpandey]

I tried, your centralized rural warehouse method, located in the country. I would like to share my insights and suggestions for improvement. 1. I picked a Rural station that could serve as a common station for 2 adjacent businesses (+6 warehouse products), gave me 8 products to store or else atleast 7 goods can be stored. 2. I connected 6 platforms of the rural warehouse to 6 rural businesses (without any signals, to run 2 way) to bring in goods and remaining 2 platforms to send goods to cities. 3. Bottlenecks and congestions happened as soon as each rural business had 1+trains and 2 outgoing platforms, meant congestion by waiting trains along with need for maintenance. 4. So my thought is, can we have 2 stations for the same rural business and 2 warehouses with exact same products, so that goods transfer from 1 line to another, like we can do in cities? This way 1 station will only receive goods on dedicated lines and another only send them out to cities on dedicated lines. Then at another location 2-3 more such rural warehouses can be built to hold other manufactured goods and larger city requirements. Each warehouse station will also have a maintenance depot, to help all incoming and outgoing trains. 5. If point 4 above of having 2 stations in a rural warehouse doesn't work, then a city can serve as a warehouse with 2 stations for freight (one receiving and other sending) and 1 station for express. What do you think?

[@Adekyn100]

Hi. Thanks for sharing your insights. 1. Good choice. Grab a couple of goods by station placement, then 6 more with the warehouse. 2. Why no signals? 3. See 2. 4. The automatic transfer between stations only happens in cities. 5. I tend to do a lot of designs like this; where the central station is passenger and the two outer stations are freight.

[@fele09]

That's what I want it to know. A way of using stations by role. I just connected everything and saw a problem of delivering goods. Some cities had like 24 woods incoming to the city but never arrived. I want to try this. Thanks!!! Great video

[@Adekyn100]

Thanks. Glad you found the video helpful. Good luck with your problem. Add a comment if you need more help. Lots of very knowledgeable, helpful folks in our little community who would be glad to help you out.

[@CodenameRockerika]

I'm interested to see your methods for managing warehouses once you have to start moving around higher tier produced goods when your first 1-2 warehouses are full. By the end game it seems like you'd end up needing 4-5 stations with warehouses per city for full coverage and a lot of track spaghetti.

[@Adekyn100]

As we get to more involved builds we will explore this further, but for now let me say that everything doesn't need to go through a warehouse.

[@CodenameRockerika]

@@Adekyn100 Looking forward to more videos! Once I hit that stage I tend to use "distribution lines" that only exist to spread luxuries between my cities.

[@filipagh679]

problem of this layout is that you need build warehouse in every station with same items so you are limited to 6 item + what city produce, maybe tip: what i do is to have 1 line going thrue multiple city A-B-C and all of then can have own warhouse and that connected line will distribute all (18 item + what city produce) i have 4 city in line which work fine (end of 3. campain) now i trying 5 city in circle

[@Adekyn100]

There are lots of ways to move freight and grow cities. Your method sounds promising.

[@billjohansson88]

The question is, does it really take two Wearhouses in Grand Rapids to move freight to Toledo from London? Since there are only two stations in GR, only one WH is required for the six goods since we already have the ability to move passengers/mail and goods freely between two stations in Citys! This ability is confirmed in the tool tip that pops up at the bottom of the left side, which gives current feedback on things you build, e.g. you sometimes forget that you have to build the rail between two stations and connect the stations in your network.

[@Adekyn100]

The video is showing the ability to bring goods into one warehouse in the city and have it delivered to another city from a different warehouse. It is not intended to showcase an ideal city station or warehouse design.

[@billjohansson88]

@@Adekyn100 I understand the purpose of your video, No problems bud. I was asking mostly to see if you yourself know if the built-in help is correct or if it's a linguistic flaw in translation for the left corner pop up that gives you feedback. Because I have tried to do exactly the same basic set up as you did in the video, with the only exception that I only had 1 WH in GR between rural stations and London that you use for station no. 1. From station no. 2, which will then send goods down to Toledo e.i., so up there is an empty space! Goods are in WH but it is not sent over to station no. 2 in GR and further down to Toledo, as it is stated that in cities this ability should be possible according to the tool tip, down left side... Could be that there is a natural prioritization rate of 1,2,3 on who gets goods first with a set up like this of only using one WH in GR instead of two. Because if I use two in GR as you did in the video, then the goods immediately start flowing down to the stations towards Toledo and further along the network, so it indicates that goods are available in the presence, however not if it is misleading in the tool tip or prioritization degrees which it is about. A theoretical solution I thought could work would be to keep a WH in GR and only use one station instead of two, by using 6 tracks. Track 1,2 - Down to Toledo using auto pickup Track 3,4 - To London using auto pickup Track 5,6 - To all rural stations above GR that supply WH with goods. In a set up like this, Grand Rapid becomes a hub that has double track to all the other stations that are part of the network as peer to peer connections aka "Mainline". In addition to using 6 tracks for all goods shipping, there is the option of using 2 more tracks for Express, at a later time when needed. It is just as easy to make a branch line for express and use two bonuses by using two stations where number 2 is for express traffic only. An advanced solution like this tends to become somewhat "convoluted" in the long run, in any case when we have a larger network to manage. Could very well be that I'm using my muscle memory incorrectly when I played the first game and sometimes tend to do as I did before, without really thinking that the game is not a completely new game, however there are similarities between the two. For those who played the first edition, many people probably feel the same in my experience here lol.

[@jamesdetroit3791]

Thanks for the great explanatory videos. Am I correct in thinking that we store goods in a warehouse and then let the AI distribute those goods to destinations with a demand? Assuming everything is connected. This way we don't have to micromanage the flow of goods.

[@Adekyn100]

Kinda, sorta. Have you watched my other warehouse basics video? If not, that one explains the basic warehouse principles and how they work to talk to other warehouses and to consumers.

[@swiftkicks9221]

How can I find out more about Track Utilization and what the percentages mean about my system?

[@Jelinobas_Rakdathal]

Servus 🙃 However, you should keep in mind that it does not count for *connection bonuses* if you send the goods to a warehouse. For the bonus, it must be delivered *directly to a city* . 😉 Not that you will experience an unpleasant surprise later. 🤫

[@tomasbohunek9698]

Hey! Does that apply also when the goods is picked from the warehouse and delivered to another city?

[@Jelinobas_Rakdathal]

@@tomasbohunek9698 That should work.

[@gondi1272]

Does that ’magic transfer’ of goods between warehouses only work between city connected warehouses, or does it also work at rural stations and/or any nearby warehouses in the countryside? Secondly, do the goods that you want to transfer from one WH to another have to be selected in both WHs, or is it enough that one of the warehouses has the good activated so it works like one large ’12-slot’ WH?

[@billjohansson88]

In the case of rural stations, transfer only takes place via the goods that are connected to the unique WH, i.e. in WH 1 and 2 as peer to peer contact. You can't have a mega WH with twelve items without all items being plugged into both WHs here. The solution is to make a "mainline" that uses four tracks for places with high traffic "peer to peer" to later change to e.i only two tracks for the termination in the network e.i Toledo. The limit or "solution" is also an update from the previous version of the first game where it was possible to make a mainline with 4/6 tracks & mega WH over the entire map in a big way. In the game ver 2 there are bigger challenges and I see them as a positive thing for WH´s. The only time I build WH in rural stations, is for the places that have two resources e.i. like Lumber/Wool in NYC & Buffalo Corn/Wete. The limitation is the obstacle for the middle and the advantage of being able to have it in a city outweighs the flexibility that becomes natural after the year 1832 when your network is usually widespread at this time-. Yes, both goods need to be specified aka marked from and where and the reason is that they are only six goods that are housed in a WH.

[@gondi1272]

@@billjohansson88 Thanks for the comprehensive explanation.

[@kwsanders]

To clarify regarding the transfer between stations in the same city, you need to have both warehouses setup to store the same product for it to transfer between stations, right?

[@Adekyn100]

Yes.

[@johnkotsonis992]

Has anyone had a problem where there is a wheat farm delivering to a local city normally, then once there are warehouses delivering, the farm stops. I've only seen it happen with wheat. If I'm not paying attention, it makes the city stop growing or even shrink. I tried to delete the trains from the farm and add them back, but they will not deliver anything. Any help would be appreciated.

[@sulfuricazza-gv9et]

Can I daisy chain warehouses say in act 1 boston>warehouse>Albury >warehouse>sucrose. does this work having a warehouse station in between each main city?

[@Adekyn100]

Yes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5_YpnugapWfp9U

[@Adekyn100]

However, make sure you get your connection bonuses.

[@idogoldberg1]

I have a question, 1st thank you for your content , its very helpful! I have a case where I chained 4 stations (rural businesses) so it looks like that : Station A Corn -> Station B wheat -> station C logs -> City. I have a train that start in station A and has a stop at B and C , when eventually finish in the City station with a warehouse. Is that the right way to do it ? or should I get : from Station A pickup the corn -> station B setup a warehouse that stock corn -> station C with warehouse that stock corn and wheat -> city station with warehouse that stores corn, wheat and logs (assuming I want to sent it down the line) ? do i need a warehouse in EVERY station along the line even if there is no city in the middle ? meaning no goods to be dropped?

[@billjohansson88]

If I were you, I would create three different connections with a train for each item of corn/wheat/logs to the WH in the city and ask the train to wait until it has a full load. Later, when you have better trains or an increased need for an item, you simply edit the number of trains and get minimal queuing. The game is pretty straightforward from the start, take straight paths and minimal rails to spread your way across the map. When you have a larger number of contacts and are given a steady flow of income from there. When you have a steady income, make a small optimization of your network e.i improve the bottlenecks along the network at the biggest cities or those that you want to grow big on in advance. Here you can start completing your connections with rails to 100%, instead of the short parts you do at the beginning. Because at the beginning of the first two years, two-way traffic is not fully needed to 100% along your entire network. It is enough to only ensure that there are enough rails to create a shorter queue system at this time when you usually use fewer trains per connection.

[@Adekyn100]

Generally I prefer dedicated routes. In this case, a corn route, a wheat route, and a lumber route, each one going to the city.

[@thomgadget]

These are excellent videos, thank you very much! I'd like to hear your tips on maximizing profit. For example in the 2nd Campaign scenario I did very well, accomplishing all the goals -- except the last one which requires a certain level of income. I fell short there, and I don't really know what to change (I'm sure it's complex, though :) ) Anyway, thanks for your guides, they are great.

[@Adekyn100]

Thanks. Glad you enjoy the videos. I think you mean company value for mission 2. That's the sum of all the company's assets, so you just need to grow more, grow faster.

[@thomgadget]

@@Adekyn100 No, it asks for a specific "Average Balance Per Week", which is shown in the Company panel. That's the part I'm having trouble with at the moment :)

[@thomgadget]

I did manage to complete Chapter 2 on my 3rd try :) I guess my earlier networks just weren't efficient enough. I'm getting better, though.

[@RumTherapy100]

​@@thomgadget I had some trouble with this, too. Your average weekly balance for that mission is actually the total average balance of all of your rail lines. So, first, you should go through the list and remove or optimize any lines that are operating at a loss. Next, for that chapter specifically, make sure you have express lines from every city to every city with a mail cart and dining cart. That's where the money is, and that will increase your profits. Couple this method with large cities and restaurants or post offices at your train stations and your average weekly balance will grow quite a bit.

[@naptimebjj6072]

love this information bro

[@Adekyn100]

Glad to hear it

[@Daz21721]

Just a quick question. When you have 2 stations and 2 warehouses in a city . Do the goods you want to transfer between the 2 warehouses have to added to both slots on each warehouse?

[@Adekyn100]

Yes.

[@Daz21721]

Thanks Adekyn . It’s good to have you back on Railway Empire .

[@JoeModz]

I'm sure I'm missing a simple step, but anytime I merge lines (XBOX) the new trunk/station will say it is not connected to any other stations.

[@Adekyn100]

Check for switches (gridiron) at the new station and check that you have signals everywhere along the way and all pointing in the right direction.

[@IkeandMe]

There could be a small gap in the line, gridiron could be missing, or directional arrows missing or wrong. Probably just a minor oversight somewhere

[@SwissFrames]

Hi. Dr.Train at it again ? :) Just a few questions/ideas: a) does station to station transfer only work in cities ? b) could I build a station in a city just for it's warehouse functionality (without actual traffic) and build the express extensions in the other station ? c) or could i build such a station just for its express slots ?

[@filipagh679]

you can have station with warehouse and 2. station with express buildning in same city (you can have 3 station max i think), i have like this cluster of 4 city in line with 3x 100k and 200k+ people, separate freight and expres lines (all are completly full)

[@Adekyn100]

Based on what I know right now: a) No. b) No. c) No. I'm assuming in each case you mean build the station but not connect it to anything. The bonus revenue only applies to trains at the station where the extensions exist.

[@smonkey001]

What to do if you used all the warehouse goods slots in a station and you want it to handle even more types of goods?

[@Adekyn100]

Lots of possibilities, including, but not limited to adding another station with another warehouse or setting up a warehouse out in the country or sending the product directly to cities without a warehouse.

[@audrianmarak1574]

Tried in campaign 1&2, game is buggy af and it didn't work for cross station warehousing

[@Adekyn100]

Strange. I've encountered exactly one minor defect while laying double-track with an easy work-around plus the obnoxious rogue sound that occurs when you zoom in close to a station. Other than that, rock solid.

[@doodoobrown8741]

Nice video, very helpful.😃

[@Adekyn100]

Glad you found it useful.

[@regenytarmovies]

My rural businesses are stopped working. Why?

[@Adekyn100]

You probably have no demand down the line. Once your cities consume more of whatever you are shipping the trains should start loading again.

[@regenytarmovies]

@@Adekyn100 I prefer to assume that the delivery is set from another direction, but it does not reach here. Is this possible?

[@JohnnyHughes1]

I absolutely could not get that to work in campaign mission 1. I am going to create a sandbox and test this right now 😮

[@Adekyn100]

It works for me every time (so far). Main thing to check is that you have enough production to fulfill the first consumer so you can also supply the second consumer.

[@JohnnyHughes1]

You are correct. It worked fine in my sandbox test. No idea what I did wrong in the campaign. This is actually awesome. The way warehouses should have always worked.

[@raymondrobson4400]

Sorry, but I'm lost. I'm playing early campaign trying to get corn near buffalo to Boston and can't it's the only corn on the map and I have a direct train to Albany and another to Boston. My corn goes to Albany and disappears. It's not even being shown as delivered so it never gets picked up to Boston. Frustrating. Don't know what to do and such a simple setup 🤷

[@Adekyn100]

It sounds like your corn is being consumed by Albany. Do you have a warehouse in Albany set to manage corn?

[@raymondrobson4400]

@@Adekyn100 yes I do. I also turned it off but corn consistently showed zero. I watched the train deliver the corn but it was never added to the station or warehouse.

[@Adekyn100]

Check the route time and calculate if you are running enough trains to fill the need of Albany. It is possible that Albany is consuming all the corn. Try adding another train to the route so you are delivering corn at a faster pace.

[@raymondrobson4400]

@@Adekyn100 I don't see anything around Albany that would use corn, but I'll try as you suggest and see what happens. The station also has a wheat farm so my trains haul both corn and wheat and they run full. I hope you're right. Thank you!

[@raymondrobson4400]

I tried what you said. At first it wasn't working, but I forgot to put a warehouse at the station with corn. Then I added 3 more freight routes from Albany to Boston and finally got some corn to ship. Thank you again. I subbed as well 👍

[@jakobnielsen2896]

Is it just me, or are warehouses a bit under powered considering the hefty price?

[@filipagh679]

i think all building are now cheap in RE1 it cost 120k i think

[@Adekyn100]

I think it's just you :). Warehouses in RE2 are incredibly powerful and provide much more functionality than RE warehouses.

[@1sourjoe]

Considering you get 6 slots with no size limit for ~65K, I think that's a good deal. Although the term Warehouse is a misnomer, it's more of a transfer station, it doesn't actually store goods. There has to be a demand before they will be accepted. You can't ship vegetables to a warehouse unless you have at least one endpoint that has reached 40K for the demand. The game will give you a warning when you create the line and the train will just run back and forth empty. This also can created and issue running trains full, if the demand is less than 8, the train will only get loaded with the demand amount and then never leave the station. That was my problem on the first mission, I had a train hauling cut boards from one city to another and told it to run full, but the demand at the other city was only 6, so the train just sat there and never moved.

[@Adekyn100]

@@1sourjoe The load size does need to be smaller for higher end products because the city's internal storage for that item may be less that a full train.

[@grokashrimp]

Thank you

[@Adekyn100]

The algorithm sincerely thanks you. (So do I.)

[@daudikisakye]

This game is way too complicated for arguably very little reward..none of this warehouse shit shouldnt be this complex...