industry link

[Jayturf]

Is there a way to link 2 different industry tracks? I have a particular industry (copper ore concentrator) where the ore is unloaded on an upper lever track and the concentrate is unloaded on a completely different track at the bottom. I would like the bottom track to only produce copper concentrates if ore has been dumped from the other track.

Thanks

 

[Dreadnought1]

If you use ProtoLARS or BI2 industries, you can link them.
You can have one industry sending the same or a different load to another industry.

Cheers,
Dreadnought1

 

[Jayturf]

awesome...I'll give it a try!

Thanks

 

[Jayturf]

another thing. My route is a branchline that has a lot of through freight and is mostly an exporter. Is there something available that is an industry/portal all in one. Basically I want a portal that creates waybills...consumes and produces things. Empties if full...fills if empty....returns consist after a set time.

Thanks

 

[Dreadnought1]

You can set up a portal to "reverse" the state of the train (loaded>unloaded and vice versa) and return it after 'x' minutes. However, it won't produce waybills.

By the way, nice win there in the ice hockey...

Cheers,
Dreadnought1

 

[misquetofarmer]

another thing. My route is a branchline that has a lot of through freight and is mostly an exporter. Is there something available that is an industry/portal all in one. Basically I want a portal that creates waybills...consumes and produces things. Empties if full...fills if empty....returns consist after a set time.

Thanks

I use a Rule called Multiple Resource Check I think its on DLS. When the criteria is met i.e a list of cars has the amount of commodity I desire. It can be configured for industries as well. It won't reference the Waybill but it might be a nice go around for you. When my commodity level is reached I put a CPC emit train in the child process. ( If you use CPC don't forget to put in a Central Portal Control Rule in as well.) so while my full train is leaving a new train with the commodities I desire is issued from the portal. There are some restrictions however if you assign your Resources to specific Cars and then send them to a portal....the rule will effectively complete itself and not work again during the session. However if you are checking the levels in an industry for example a power plant and when the level reaches 50% of coal. the rule would issue a command to emit a consist with a full load of Coal going to your power plant.

the CPC rule will let you configure the consist and driver commands. I use several different Portals for each type of consist I desire to be emitted. If I want empties I simply don't include the instantfill command in my driver list. with a little playing around you should be able to coordinate the waybills with the Multiple resource check so that they are both happening at the same level of commodity.

 

[misquetofarmer]

One other thing.. If you use instantload you must configure the consist so that the desired commodity is the first in the load que. I had a factory using lumber and found I had to rewrite the in the CMP config file for the flat I was using so that Lumber was the first thing on that car. so when I used instant load it loaded lumber and not general goods. I have done this for several commodities and it seems to work well.