Can I add coal to an empty hopper?

[rickf77]

Good day all;

I got TS12, tried a couple of routes, got TransDem, and completed my route. I thought that was going to be the hardest part, but now I have to learn most of the basics.

How does one fill a hopper or add products to a flat car? Is there a tutorial or any info that you can point me to? I just want loaded flatcars and hoppers sitting in the yard.

Geez, I thought the hard part was over! I cannot find any info in the manual, but I'm still looking. I was hoping it was just a "click", and poof, there it is, or poof, there it is, gone!

Thank you friends, cheers.....Rick

 

[Firefighterdan]

In surveyor click on the rolling stock with the question mark found in the F7 tab. That will allow you to add whatever you want.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

In surveyor click on the rolling stock with the question mark found in the F7 tab. That will allow you to add whatever you want.

If the piece of rolling stock is configured to load products. Some are not.

 

[rickf77]

Morning guys; Hee, hee, I was quite embarrassed to ask that question! So far all I did was build the route, and only learned what was needed to do that. I was feeling quite cocky when I completed the route! Now, I see there is so much more to learn. I've spent a week figuring out how to get some "broken" items I really wanted to show up in surveyor. Yesterday, I just realized I did not even know how to get a load on the cars.

Thanks, guys. After a little poking around in F7 ( to me, "the place to get the rolling stock"), I can now put a load on the cars. Well, I guess it's time to learn about making sessions and how to run this railroad. I have found the info about F7-? in the manual. I now know why I didn't look any farther. "Edit Properties? I better not touch that!" Lots of fun and frustration and embarrassing questions ahead, me thinks!

Thanks again, cheers....Rick

 

[philskene]

Interactive industries and freight cars

Rick --

Welcome to the wonderful world of interactive industries and freight cars.

Some time ago I did an illustration tutorial about configuring industries and freight cars. If you are interested it can be downloaded by a mouse click here:

https://www.rapidshare.com/files/438627468/LARS_ProtoLARS_MIN_Tutorial.pdf

Take the free option.

There's also a couple of videos (all best watched full screen and HD):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1JPhjKnciI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Wkw4DfzMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtotZjFbaZQ

Phil

 

[rickf77]

Morning Phil; Thanks for all the info. Got up early this morning, so this will give me something to do. I will get the tutorial and watch the videos after this "post". After 8 months of roughly 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, I finished my route. I took a couple of days off and then started to learn how to fix some of content that I wanted to use. I'm getting the hang of that.

A few days ago I was led to lilb's fantastic rolling stock. There's another fella working on a great looking oil tanker and a 1950's hopper. I'm doing a late steam era route and have an oil refinery, so things are looking up. Somehow, I have become a "rolling stock snob". Nothing but the very best will do. This rolling stock will cover all the US cars that I will ever need on my CNR route. Now I'm working on getting Canadian rolling stock that is as good as the above US stuff. I"m hoping to get a fella to do that, fingers crossed.

Anyway, I put all of lilb's cars in the yard to gaze upon their beauty. "Hmmm", I thought, "Let's put a load of coal in one of those gondolas, and something on a flat car." That's when it hit me. All I've learned is how to build my route, I have not learned anything else. Thanks to the fellas above, I put some coal in a gondola, ran it up the ramp on my coaling tower and watched and listened as the load was delivered. Up until that moment, I was not really concerned about the "interactive stuff". Now, I really want everything to be interactive. I'll have to go over the route and replace any industries that are not interactive. Your tutorial should be a very big help to me. OK, I'm off to get the tut and have a look at the videos. Sounds like something I can really use. Thanks Phil, for sharing your knowledge.

Cheers.....Rick

 

[philskene]

Rick --

Post # 2 here might give you a few ideas too:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/show...rashnburne-v2-quot-updated-route-amp-sessions

Once you get the hang of it and assuming that the route is designed around it, there are just so many operational possibilities with interactive industries. The trick, of course, is to provide a logical connection between industries.

In that table, for example, wheat goes from the bulk load silos to the flour mill for milling, the flour to the bakery for baking and finally the baked goods get shipped out to the freight depot.

Phil

 

[rickf77]

Thanks Phil; I got the other items. Oh my, so much to learn and perhaps many more months of work.. er, I mean fun. Well at least I'm finished planting vegetation. I'm surprised my mouse and eyes survived that ordeal!

Thanks again, I'll give it a whirl.......cheers..Rick

Oh yes, I took the tour of your route. Very impressive!!!