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.


Dispatcher

[AT RR]

Steve,
Good afternoon, I don't know if this is a related problem "bug". When I filled some yard sidings at LV oak island with more than one seed car to get a good car type fill, I was looking for the same type of chem tanker for that one siding. I noticed when I left the world fill at default some sidings will fill to the point they will run down the yard ladder fouling the turnouts but not the path.
The strange thing is when I run the activity it runs fine, one would think if the cars exceeded the siding markers it would crash.
What it looks like is the maximum car pick up /set out setting is multiplying the seed cars by the max setting number.

Peter

[nbeveridge]

Steve,
Good afternoon, I don't know if this is a related problem "bug". When I filled some yard sidings at LV oak island with more than one seed car to get a good car type fill, I was looking for the same type of chem tanker for that one siding. I noticed when I left the world fill at default some sidings will fill to the point they will run down the yard ladder fouling the turnouts but not the path.
The strange thing is when I run the activity it runs fine, one would think if the cars exceeded the siding markers it would crash.
What it looks like is the maximum car pick up /set out setting is multiplying the seed cars by the max setting number.

Peter

Uhhh . . . what route? What template?

Also, why more than one seed car? [This could lead to an interesting discussion.]

If the seed car is placed such that cars added to the back end will be longer than the end of the siding, then you will have this very thing happen. Sometimes it WILL crash the activity, if the car string is down a spur to a dead end. But down a ladder track, there is nothing in MSTS which would cause a problem until the car string either overlaps another item of rolling stock or runs out of track. Depending on player train movement, you might have track switches cycling under the car string, which may have unfortunate results if you try to move the string. If it blocks a path for an AI train you may get part way through the activity, with the player train at a different location at the time the AI train hits the car string, and have MSTS bomb out on you, and you won't even know why. Steve's instructions for placement of the seed cars is pretty specific (somewhere around page 32 of the AG manual). Placement of a seed car elsewhere will have unexpected results.

I don't even want to imagine all the scenarios possible with more than one seed car per track. Many of them will result in the activity crashing.