Resource Connection Failed?

[Tadaas]

Situation: I had a city on one island that had expanded once beyond the fat cross. The expansion included a tile with silk on a second island (I had put silk there myself with the world builder). I moved a worker to the second island, built the plantation, and built a railroad on the tile with silk. I had researched both sailing and astronomy

Result: I did not get silk back to any city (even the one that had expanded to include the tile.)

I would have expected the railroad on the tile to take the silk to the coast square; the coast to the city; and the city by ocean to rest of my cities.

Has anyone seen this? Am I doing something wrong?

[Enigma_Nova]

You can't road to the Coast, you can only road to rivers.
Also, I don't think resources link if they're on the coast.
Basically, you'll need to road that resource to a city or you won't get the benefit, since I doubt that tiny island has a river.

[clarkcd]

Enigma_Nova is correct. To get the resource you would have to build a town on that island to the south. The hill with the jungle would probably be the best spot if you really need that resource.

[Blake]

The hill with the jungle would be the only spot, as the others are too close. This behaivour is quite frustrating at times. I think there needs to be some way to get the resoures in these situations, either a trade boat that can be parked offtile and provides a route, or a canal improvement that works like a river/road hybrid.

[PapaMonkey]

Or use the Civ3 option to create an outpost (was that what it was called?) there. Make it so that the outpost automatically traded as a city (across water/coasts/rivers per your tech level). This would help a lot on Arch maps where you don't necessarily want to goto every island. I have had a needed resource on a 1 wide peninsula blocked by a mountain. Very frustrating!