Restricting Stock to certain tracks Options

[Frascati]

Hi

Is there a way of restricting stock to appear only on certain tracks. I have some military stock which I wish to appear only on military sidings. By putting this stock on Industry tracks, Ive got it partly doing what I want. But it also appears in the random mix of stock that is used to fill the route.

Secondly is there way to influence the selection of stock. Say have the local operators stock predominate but have foreign stock occasionaly turn up. It seems that at the moment all boxcars (say) are put into a pool and treated equally so that if you had say 5 SP boxcars and 20 foreign, the SP cars would only appear 20% of the time.

Thanks

[sgdavis]

Frascati,

If you are up to editing the files I have found if you add 2 or more seed cars of the type you want to see using MSTS activity editor will give you about 80% to 90% of same car type filling into industry. It looks like the extra seed cars helps cut down on the odds when you compile the switch list.

Then add a unique car type for your cars in your case "ARMY" for full cars and "ARMYMT" for the empty cars. You will have to edit your switch list, track table and car type CSV files so AG will recognize the new car types.

On my template I put 4 empty coal "CLMT" seed cars at the power plant and 4 full coal "CL" seed cars at the coal pier. Then mark cars wanted for the powerplant to "CL" and the cars wanted on the coal pier "CLMT". This way the empty cars will end up on the coal pier and the fill cars will end up at the power plant.

Steve I hope I did not butcher up this explination. 

Peter   

This is exactly correct, thanks for the response!