Ok, so I am setting up a scenario for use with iPortal and a few friends, as well as keeping my rout running. My plan is to run this scenario for 24 hours once a week that way every one can run their trains through my route. But of obvious reasons, I cant sit for 24 hours and play trains. So it up to the AI drivers (I know, my route is doomed.) to run the basics. Such as getting coal form the mines to the power plants. My Mine can load 100 hoppers and fit them all on its tracks, but my power plants can only hold 10-15 cars. SO this means that a coal train would have to be broken apart in a yard and then shipped out in 3 smaller trains.
My plan/question is this: I want to have my coal hoppers sit empty on track A. I want 3 locomotives to pick them up and load them at the coal mine. I then want to have the 3 locomotives then drop the cars on track B. I then want 1 locomotive to pick up 10 cars form track B and take them to the power plant to unload. Once it unloads, I want it to drop the empty's at track A and pick up 10 more at track B.
Then I want the fist 3 locomotives to pick up the empty's at track A and re start the posses.
Now I know I can tell the AI to uncouple car #1 and couple to car #100. But I cant guarantee that there will always be car #1 and Car #100 to couple too.
Is there a way I could tell the train to couple at track mark "Yard 1" and couple at track mark "Yard 2" and have it couple to only the cars there? And is there a way I can make the train uncouple X# of cars? So when I want one of the short trains to take 10 hoppers form a sting of 100 they only take 10 no mater what car numbers they are?
Now that i think about it, I think there is a couple at track mark command, but I cant remember.
My plan/question is this: I want to have my coal hoppers sit empty on track A. I want 3 locomotives to pick them up and load them at the coal mine. I then want to have the 3 locomotives then drop the cars on track B. I then want 1 locomotive to pick up 10 cars form track B and take them to the power plant to unload. Once it unloads, I want it to drop the empty's at track A and pick up 10 more at track B.
Then I want the fist 3 locomotives to pick up the empty's at track A and re start the posses.
Now I know I can tell the AI to uncouple car #1 and couple to car #100. But I cant guarantee that there will always be car #1 and Car #100 to couple too.
Is there a way I could tell the train to couple at track mark "Yard 1" and couple at track mark "Yard 2" and have it couple to only the cars there? And is there a way I can make the train uncouple X# of cars? So when I want one of the short trains to take 10 hoppers form a sting of 100 they only take 10 no mater what car numbers they are?
Now that i think about it, I think there is a couple at track mark command, but I cant remember.