More Empire Builder

[Carlo Sgro]

More random questions:

How do you deal with picking up random loads (that you have no demand for)
at a city and then dumping it later. Since the (first edition) rules don't
penalize it, it seems like it would be a good strategy (e.g. picking up sugar
in S.F. or wood in Portland) but it also seems a bit unrealistic (I can't
imagine the owner of the B&O railroad picking up oranges in Tampa in the hope
of possibly picking up a customer somewhere). Does anyone have any house
rules about this? Interesting house rules might involve:
1) fixed penalities for dumping,
2) variable penalties for dumping (depending on
what the load is; i think that it would be far
easier to unload a shipment of fruit at a bargain
basement price (as long as they weren't rotten)
than a shipment of wood,
3) penalties for the amount of time you carry unwanted
loads,
4) costs for buying unneeded loads ...