Mission 6 - Great Depression | The USA Campaign Transport Fever Guide
Last update: 06 December 2016
Oil was and still is one of the most profitable businesses in the last century. This one is a scenario that starts the era of mass mining for oil. Your mission is to transport it.
Export fuel. Before you start mining, you have to decide where to drill for oil. The cost of such an operation is $3 mil., which is followed by oil well being built. To determine the amount of available oil, you can buy a patent for $5 mil. On the list of tasks, you can view how much oil is available in each of the locations, and the values are assigned at random each time you start the scenario. If you want to end this mission quickly, it is a good idea to obtain it. If you want to obtain a medal concerning oil mining from each of the oil fields, keep the money for expansion of your company. If you use the patent, first make a connection with the well in which there is the most oil. Establish a transportation route from the refinery to the export port. It is a good idea to extend railway to the nearby city and transport goods there.
Also, you can send 40 crates of goods to New Orleans, thanks to which you will be able to use the oil rig. This way, you can transport oil to the export harbor. I recommend against such a solution - to transport oil, you will have to establish an additional line and the harbor will be busy already. DO this if you want the medal. Apart from that, the rig produces little oil and the ship itself will take long before reaching the destination. If you really want to use the naval route, use routes for transportation of goods, e.g. to New Orleans (plus a small truck route).
Connection Houston - New Orleans. Your task is to establish a fast route of high traffic intensity between these two cities. Establish as short a route as possible and build both bridges and tunnels. At the same time, build as many straight roads as possible, preferably in both directions, or one direction with siding tracks. 4-6 trains should handle this mission without any major problems. Use new railway engines and attach only one passenger car. Thanks to this, the entire train should not be overloaded and you will prevent situations in which, e.g. one of the trains if full, whereas another one is empty. Also, remember about bus connections in cities to make carrying passengers from and to the train stations more effective
Medals:
Keep Pumping. If you want to finis before 1955, you will have to give up the rest of the medals and focus on the quickest transportation of oil and fuel possible. Do not spend your money on patent. Remember that goods may provide you with additional income and earn you a medal for the quantity of goods. It is a good idea to establish several goods-exclusive connections. In the meantime, focus on building a passenger connection and, whenever possible, add new trains. As soon as you have handled the first objective, you should be able to deal with the other one in no time at all, because you already have the resources.
Investment!. If you do not want to go below $75 mil., you only have to buy, e.g. railway engines and leave them in the garage. The key here is to spend the money somewhere and this is the fastest way. Garage capacity is high.
Like Lightning. If you do what I have mentioned above, build a short and costly route. Additional railway engines should be brand new and of the same type. The faster ones will not stay behind the slower ones. Also, dispatch trains at certain intervals, instead of one after another, and do not set full load.