hoppers and agg's: too much to hope for?

[Chelsea4884]

I'm running TRS 2009 SP4. I have collected many industry tracks (MIN, LARS, LARS2, P/L, BI2 etc) and for the life of me I cannot find an open hopper that will load and unload a variety of aggregates. I will settle for coal, gravel and sand. Only the BN Green Coke hopper seems to work as I would expect. Unfortunately, I am modeling early 20th Century US, and that hopper is butt-ugly.

Any suggestions? Keep looking? Even a CRR hopper from LARS does not load aggs from P/L BI2 Agg track! It half-loads and always looks like coal.

 

[philskene]

Have you read my monograph?

Hi Chelsea --

Many freight cars will load more commodities than you see when you click on the "?" and then the freight car.

Have you read my illustrated monograph about interactive industries and cars? If not, go here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/438627468/LARS_ProtoLARS_MIN_Tutorial.pdf

Unfortunately not all hoppers and gondolas are configured correctly - the texture repalcement text is either incorrect or missing - so that when you do load, say iron ore it still shows as coal.

This Burlington hopper is correctly configured - kuid:60238:15052

There are a few others too.

Have you also looked here:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=66541

Phil

 

[rweber95]

Vulcan has made several including these:
Ore Hopper ATSF Empty,<kuid2:60238:15043:1>
Ore Hopper BM Empty,<kuid2:60238:15045:1>
Ore Hopper Burlington,<kuid2:60238:15052:1>
Ore Hopper C&O,<kuid2:60238:15057:1>
Ore Hopper DH Empty,<kuid2:60238:15047:1>
Ore Hopper EJ&E,<kuid2:60238:15055:1>
Ore Hopper Lehigh valley,<kuid2:60238:15053:1>
Ore Hopper Seaboard Coast Line,<kuid2:60238:15056:1>
Ore Hopper 2 Bay Generic,<kuid2:60238:15069:1>
Ore Hopper 2 Bay Generic 2,<kuid2:60238:15070:1>

Bob

 

[Chelsea4884]

Thanks. Yes, I've read your terrific tutorial. Thanks for the effort you put into it. My trouble usually comes on Page 8, "Scroll down the window to the Panzer tank, highlight it and then click on the tick to close the window." In Surveyor, when configuring the rolling stock, whole swathes of commodities do not appear in the commodity list. Baffling. My new TPR CRR hopper does not display any of the TPR commodities! So how DOES one "correctly" configure a car to accept a batch of commodities, or display the correct texture, or display the green check mark?

I will check out some of Vulcan's hoppers, thanks.

 

[Chelsea4884]

Ha! I've got Vulcan's hoppers working perfectly with protoLARS Aggregates. Thanks everybody. On to grains.

 

[philskene]

"Unfortunately not all hoppers and gondolas are configured correctly ... ."

I was referring to texture replacement.

Unfortunately some hoppers and other freight cars intended for bulk loads are configured even more incorrectly - individual loads will show in the list after clicking on the "?" (like containers, general goods, ... ) but the not bulk loads they are intended for.

And then again, some freight cars intended for individual loads will only show bulks.

It's all done in the config.txt file. Get it correct and it's perfect; otherwise ... .

Phil

 

[mtldrm38]

I agree with PHIL reconfiguring cars and open hoppers and gondolas is usually a bit of a tricky thing to do a little practice and its second hand.....