Efficient railroad management
Once you have built your passenger train line and set up a transit system for resources, the city will begin to develop, with the station at its center. But to get it to develop beyond a residential area, you will have to try a variety of things.
The houses became apartment buildings and there are some businesses here and there, and yet for some reason this city's development has halted. But the storage sites are filled with unused resources and the trains are always filled to capacity.
What could be the problem?
One possible reason for a city to halt its development is that the number of passengers using the station has stopped increasing. With only a single track, you are limited in the number of trains that can run and the number of passengers that can use them.
Try increasing the number of tracks to improve your passenger capacity.
Two tracks that run next to one another are not referred to as multiple tracks (they are called parallel tracks). In order to have your trains travel in a circle around the track, you'll need to place a merged track piece at each end of the parallel tracks. As you can see in the illustration to the right, by having your trains return once they reach the end of the track, you can set up a circular path for them to follow.
Once you have merged the tracks at both ends, you can increase the number of trains running on the tracks. Be sure to pay close attention to the direction that the trains travel when placing them. And don't forget the point settings for the merged lines.
Now your railroad will be able to handle many more passengers than before.
When the number of passengers increases, the development speed of the area around the stations will increase. As you can see in the illustration to the right, houses change to apartment buildings, buildings with many small businesses change to mid-size buildings, and mid-size buildings change to skyscrapers.
The city is starting to take shape.
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