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

[highdesertdave2]

Hi, I too am trying to builded a coal train to run from Ashville to Spartanburg.

My problem is getting enough loaded coal cars on the tracks that I designated for the coal train. I have 5 tracks with loaded coal cars in the Ashville yard ok. But AG won't put more than 10 or so cars on any of these tracks, I put 80 for the max of the train and 40 for each of the pickup tracks but AG only gave me 52 cars all together on the five tracks I designated for the coal train.
Is there some way to get AG to give me the amount I need (70) on these tracks to make up this train.
Highdesertdave.

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

[sgdavis]

Hi, I too am trying to builded a coal train to run from Ashville to Spartanburg.

My problem is getting enough loaded coal cars on the tracks that I designated for the coal train. I have 5 tracks with loaded coal cars in the Ashville yard ok. But AG won't put more than 10 or so cars on any of these tracks, I put 80 for the max of the train and 40 for each of the pickup tracks but AG only gave me 52 cars all together on the five tracks I designated for the coal train.
Is there some way to get AG to give me the amount I need (70) on these tracks to make up this train.
Highdesertdave.

Hi Dave,

I am traveling so I won't be able to access this route or template until I'm back on Friday. However, with AG4 you can see the capacities that the template designer set up for each track. Could you tell me, for the tracks you are only seeing 10 cars per track on, what the template designer's track capacity is for those? I don't mean how LONG the actual track is but what the number of cars is that is set for the template.

If the template can allow more than 10 cars on each of those tracks but you are only getting 10 that sounds like a bug in AG which I will need to fix. So let me know the answer to this question and when I'm back home I'll run this template and see what is going on. If it's an AG4 problem I'll fix it with an update.

Thanks,

Steve

[highdesertdave2]

Ok Steve here goes.

This is the Saluda route, Ashville south tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and an unnamed track.

The unnamed track holds 23, I got 12, track 2 holds 13 I got 8, 3 holds 11 I got 6, 4 holds 11 I got 7, 5 holds 18 I got 8, 6 holds 18 I got 10.

Tracks 5 and 6 were set for 8 cars but I changed them to 18. All these tracks can hold at least twice what they're set for.

All these tracks are marked as industrial tracks and I changed them to coal loads only.

I set the train max at 80 and the pickup tracks at 40.

Well that is about it Steve hope this helps you. Dave

Hi Dave,

I am traveling so I won't be able to access this route or template until I'm back on Friday. However, with AG4 you can see the capacities that the template designer set up for each track. Could you tell me, for the tracks you are only seeing 10 cars per track on, what the template designer's track capacity is for those? I don't mean how LONG the actual track is but what the number of cars is that is set for the template.

If the template can allow more than 10 cars on each of those tracks but you are only getting 10 that sounds like a bug in AG which I will need to fix. So let me know the answer to this question and when I'm back home I'll run this template and see what is going on. If it's an AG4 problem I'll fix it with an update.

Thanks,

Steve