a long one car type train Options

[dispatcher]

Since I posted the original question about single car type trains, I have been doing some experimenting. I found if you designate one track in the destination region the same track type as the source track, you can build, in this case, a coal train of any length. Obviously you must be able to afford designating one track to just one car type. In my case, the designation yard had plenty of 40 car and more tracks so I was able to designate one to coal loaded only.


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[sgdavis]

Since I posted the original question about single car type trains, I have been doing some experimenting. I found if you designate one track in the destination region the same track type as the source track, you can build, in this case, a coal train of any length. Obviously you must be able to afford designating one track to just one car type. In my case, the designation yard had plenty of 40 car and more tracks so I was able to designate one to coal loaded only.


Dispatcher

That would work, great discovery! The suggestion I made earlier (did you see it? At Long one car trains) should also have worked. That was, if the track you want to use as a "Source" track is designated as supplying cars of the type you want, such as, cars of type CL, then you could leave off designating ANY source tracks and just designate that track as an Industry track, then set the max to pick up from a single siding and the max cars to handle to as long as you want your train to be.

Still another approach, if you didn't want to build your train, would be to start with cars already on your train (set the number of cars in the initial train to a number the same as the number of cars you want in your train). Then set up one or more Industry tracks later on to service that want CL or CLMT (for Coal or Coal Empty). Doing that you should get a train of all one type of car (in this case coal).

Thanks for sharing your discovery!

Your host,

Steve