How to pick stock that will load and unload

[railsong]

I am creating a route and want to know how to determine which rolling stock will load and unload commodities. I am using Trainz 2010 EE and have gone through manual on setting up a simple driver session. It describes setting up a coal mine and a power plant. The example given works fine on loading the coal cars at the mine and unloading them at the power plant. I have taken another step and have placed a forestry and a lumber mill on my route. I have found a flatcar that will load the logs at the forestry, but when I take them to the lumber mill they won't unload there. I just don't know what I could be doing wrong. I haven't been able to locate any tutuorials on setting up this type of thing. Any help would be appreciated....
Mel

 

[mitch456yui]

Hi,
Welcome to Trainz!
It's very easy to find a piece of stock that hold commodities.
When you place them in surveyor, you have a picture of the object in the little tab that has the list of your locos in it.
If it has a little symbol that has in white letters, IND, infront of a big green tick, you will be sure that the rolling stock is industry compatible
Hope this helps,
Mitch

 

[Bill69]

Hi railsong,

Rollingstock enabled for loading used to have an icon which showed up in the preview pane, but that has been discontinued now, older rollingstock may still have the icon. To find out what a particular item will load, place it on the rail then click on the '?' at bottom left of the rollingstock tab then click on the item on the rail. To make a train load or unload you may have to setup the industry, to do this bring out the objects tab, click on the '?' at bottom left of the tab then click on the industry. A new panel will pop up telling you if the industry is enabled and what products it will handle. Set quantities for the products you want to deliver or pick up. If all products are at zero production and zero consume the indusetry will not do anything. Some industries have preset quantities and some don't, also some industries require the train to stop and some will load and unload on the fly at a very low speed, about 5 or 6 mph.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[railsong]

Thanks so much for the replies. This forum has been very good for me as I am new with the Trainz. I find very good imformation on how I should be doing things. I am having a great time building my first route so that I can get familiar with how everything works....Thanks a lot to all of you....
Mel

 

[EdrickV]

One thing that can help: If a particular car seems to have multiple copies, say one labeled empty and one loaded, it's a pretty sure bet it won't be industry enabled. In theory you should be able to use minimum build version to filter out stuff from pre-industry versions of Trainz, but in practice it seems some people will give industry enabled train cars lower versions so they would be filtered out too.

What I would do is find some cars I like for various types of industry and setup keywords for them via CMP so that I can easily find them again. If I setup a keyword for a route and session (and keep it up to date) I can easily find all the stuff I use in it, either in Surveyor or CMP, using the keyword filter. (If the keyword is unique enough, you actually don't need to use the filter and can just type it into the text area of the search panel. If it's not unique enough, some extra stuff may show up.)