How AG handles freight cars Options

[Chessiefan93]

Hi,

I have had this program for awhile but never found the time to fiddle with it much.  I looked at several of the video tutorials about placing cars on a template and it left me with some questions.  Correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.  It looks like when creating a template you place one freight car on a siding in-between  the markers and then AG calculates how long the siding is and looks at that car and can put however many of that type of car that will fit on that siding. 

My question is how does it handle car length?  If I put a boxcar that is 40 ft long on a template siding is AG going to only use 40 ft boxcars on the siding or is it going to use any length boxcar?  If it uses any boxcar (some are pretty long) will it calculate length of consist to fit on the siding or is it using a certain number of cars that it thinks will fit on the siding?  I ask this because it looks like it counts a number of cars that will fit and you can adjust that number in the excel spread sheet....I am guessing that it must be using the one car that you put on the siding in the template to calculate number of cars.  If that is true then it could only use 40 foot boxcars if the one car you used is 40 ft.   Otherwise you would run out of space if it used say a 60 footer.

Also it looks like you can only use only one type of car per siding or set it for all car types.  Is there a way to only use two car types on a siding if you wanted to?

 

Thanks,

Harold