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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[AT RR]

Steve / Norman,
I checked the capacity of the sidings and the SWLTDB and all the sidings are under capacity as to the number of cars and the marker to marker length of the siding is also ok. Remember this is an older "legacy" route and I have found little bugs in the past. I'm half way in the process of testing the pick up and set outs of all the sidings for the new / updated template after I finish the task I will load the current version of AG and test the problem areas . I don't like to update programs mid stream on making a template it keeps the flow of doing the work inline.

Have a good weekend,

Peter

[sgdavis]

Steve / Norman,
I checked the capacity of the sidings and the SWLTDB and all the sidings are under capacity as to the number of cars and the marker to marker length of the siding is also ok. Remember this is an older "legacy" route and I have found little bugs in the past. I'm half way in the process of testing the pick up and set outs of all the sidings for the new / updated template after I finish the task I will load the current version of AG and test the problem areas . I don't like to update programs mid stream on making a template it keeps the flow of doing the work inline.

Have a good weekend,

Peter

Peter,

In an earlier post you mentioned that you had to change some of the siding numbers to get AG to work. That was required before the latest update to AG, but now with more recent versions it can actually CAUSE problems. The problem comes into play if a given siding has one number for the "track #", and another siding has that same number for the "alt track no." (or vice versa). My recommendation is to use the latest version of AG and, if necessary, re-create your SWLTDB file and do not change any of the siding/track numbers. With the latest version AG will correctly identify both siding numbers assigned to each siding and if a car is on a track it will be identified as being on the correct siding. What could have happend is a siding got cars added to it twice, because it was listed on one line of your SWLTDB file having the track number where a car was placed, then in another line that same track number comes up as the Alt Trk No. and so the program fills twice, thinking this is two different tracks because the line in SWLTDB is different.

I hope this makes sense. If not please let me know how I can clarify. Bottom line: with AG 4.2 or later, use the track numbers the program assigns for you when you push the 'Create Track CSV File" button.

Thanks,

Steve