Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-70.126.15.83-20140909162010/@comment-15636815-20140910070458

I know that Pixel made some changes to ITs recently. It still sounds to me like you are mixing concepts from local trains and international trains.

Halfway through a local train's journey, it arrives at a location to be loaded. If you load them manually, you receive a bonus for doing so.

International trains always load before they leave your station. Therefore, international trains always UNLOAD at contractor stations. Contractors NEVER load ITs, therefore you NEVER get a bonus when a contractor loads an IT. Phrased differently, contractors don't give bonuses for loading passenger, mail, cargo, or XP trains because contractors don't load trains. You can't get a bonus for doing something that you can't do in the first place.

You CAN get bonuses with contractors, though. The bonus is given to the contractor when you UNLOAD a train manually at that contractor's station. I think that Pixel recently announced that they will eliminate this bonus and simply give the full amount to the contractor every time. I don't remember the details of that announcement, though. It might have been only for ITs sent to friends, or it might not have happened yet, or I might have misunderstood something. At any rate, what I explained in this paragraph was true two months ago. Today, either it's still true or it's changed (obviously).