Is this layout/session animation possible in TS2010?

[beach_rail]

* I posted this in the General Section as well. Hope I don't offend anyone *

Noob here with a question as I try to get a handle on this awesome and amazing product.

I'd like to build a small marine terminal layout which has the following animation features:

1. A cargo ship sitting along side of a wharf, discharging pallets of cargo to the docks using it's own shipboard crane(s).

2. A manned forklift operates between the palletized cargo on the wharf and a local warehouse about 100 yards away. The forklift cycles back and forth by pulling up to the cargo on the wharf, lifting a single pallet, and driving it to the warehouse dock bay.

3. A 2nd forklift operator works inside the warehouse by lifting pallets of cargo deposited on the warehouse dock bay and delivers them to a storage area within the warehouse.

4. A 3rd forklift operator within the warehouse cycles back and forth between the pallets sitting in warehouse storage and delivers a pallet to a boxcar which is part of a chain of boxcars on rail inside the warehouse.

5. At a point in time determined by me, a yard switcher pulls the chain of boxcars out of the warehouse to a yard railline on the terminal.

6. At another point in time determined by me, a locomotive attaches to the boxcars and drays them off the terminal onto a mainline and beyond.

I know animation is possible in this product but I'm too green to know what's really possible at this point, but this is the kind of realistic operation I'm really hoping to create. Any ideas, feedback, suggestions to help me out would be sincerely appreciated. Right now, my biggest question is...is this possible within the product without having to use other 3rd party products like Blender, 3DSMax, etc.

Thanks!

 

[pware]

While all the animations you have listed would be possible, I cannot recall any currently on the DLS that exactly match your descriptions.

There are a few animations that would come close but all are orientated towards loading/unloading rail wagons and not other assets such as cargo ships.

Your points 3. and 4. would occur entirely within a warehouse structure and would not be visible from outside.

Points 5. and 6. would not be animations but would be actual train operations and would be easily handled by AI or manual (user controlled) actions.