AG4 seed cars Options

[AT RR]

Steve,

Thank you for the AG4 upgrade it addresses and helps many of areas that the template writers run into every day.

Please clarify the new seed car function. In the new manual you state, "In earlier versions of Activity Generator, you had to place the types of cars in the spur which that industries might be expect to ship, on each spur. This is no longer required. You can just place any type of a car in any spur, and later, edit the activity TDB file."  

Do you still have to have all of the cars you wish see and use in the template seeded into the template for them to show in the switch list?

The confusion I'm having if I select a BX (Box car) for an industry and the program looks for any BX on my drive I could have modern, old, 40' 60' boxcars show up in the template and in the case of a switching template the longer modern cars won't work.

Input Please thanks.

Peter

 

 

[nbeveridge]

First, yes, if you want a particular car to be available for AG4 to use in a template, you must place that car somewhere at least once.  For my templates, I generally place long strings of cars in the yards which contain one of each of the cars I intend to use for the template.  After that, I don't have to think about what cars are available, unless I am missing some type that will be needed.

Second, some sort of system such as suggested by AJ will be needed if you want to discriminate against a long box car for a certain track.  AG4 can accept a large number of car types, but Steve will have to tell you the exact limit.