Making double-stack trailer cars...

diesel9

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I hope this is the right place to discuss this. Anyway, how can I make double-stacked trailer cars( The TTX Spinecars B-E from US Trainz)? If you know what I mean.
 
Do you mean how can you create them like in gmax?

Or do you mean in what order are the cars ('cos I don't know either)?

Or do you mean how can you make the containers stack on top of each other?

If you mean you're creating one and you want to be able to double-stack containers, then that's just an issue of attatchment point placement.
 
Do you mean how can you create them like in gmax?

Or do you mean in what order are the cars ('cos I don't know either)?

Or do you mean how can you make the containers stack on top of each other?

If you mean you're creating one and you want to be able to double-stack containers, then that's just an issue of attatchment point placement.

I want to know how can I make containers stack on top of each other please.
 
Are you creating content from scratch or are you in-game trying to work with an existing car? If the answer is number 2, please give me a KUID or a name for the car so I can check on that feature. :wave:
 
I hope this is the right place to discuss this. Anyway, how can I make double-stacked trailer cars( The TTX Spinecars B-E from US Trainz)? If you know what I mean.

Spinecars only carry 1 trailer and trailers never double stack, containers do. If you are looking for a car that carries 2 trailers, spinecars cannot do that, you need the 89' Flat that is now at Trainz Station.
 
I think he means containers. I have the same issue. You can get them from the DLS with the containers on them but they are not industry interactive. The only one i could find was a single container carrier and i sure could use doubling my productivity with those things.

Any ideas?
 
Over at the TPR Download Depot CNR has some very nice well cars in single, triple articulated and five car articulated sets which double stack and are industry active. A bit tricky to find though - they are under 'Flatcars'.

Andy :)
 
Over at the TPR Download Depot CNR has some very nice well cars in single, triple articulated and five car articulated sets which double stack and are industry active. A bit tricky to find though - they are under 'Flatcars'.

Andy :)


Ill try that out. My container recieving ports are greedy little guys and my consists with single stacks are getting a little out of hand.
 
do you mean in what order are the cars ('cos I don't know either)

I can help with this part. Let me start with a more basic point, first, though. All railroad cars in the U.S. (and everywhere else, now that I think about it, but my comments are informed by US practices) have two ends, which have almost from the beginning, differed in one main point: the brakes are applied from one end of the car only. Presumably, because "brake" began with the letter "B", the end of the car where the brake wheel was located came to be known as the "B" end of the car, and the other end, since the letter "a" as available, known as the "A" end of the car. This is (as far as I can tell) universal in North American practice. Articulated cars, which until the development of articulated piggyback equipment in the 1970's, even though they were as long as two cars, and even when they were made by permanently joining two cars together with a drawbar, still were considered one car, and were joined in such a way that the brake wheel was only at one end off the car, so there was still an "A" end and a "B" end. The development of multi unit spine cars, and other multi unit intermodal cars created a new issue, because now there was a need to identify a specific platform. Still, though, these were a single car, and usually had a single brake wheel, so there was still an "A end" and a "B end". So when time came to designate the units of a multi unit car, the units at the end without a brake wheel was designated the "A" unit (as it was at the "A" end of the car) and the unit at the other end, where the "B" end was, was designated the "B" unit. Intermdiate units between the "A" and "B" units were given alphabetic designations, with "C" next to the "B" end, and if needed, followed by "D" further from the "B" end, and "E" still further from the "B" end. The ATSF, the first road to develop an articulated car, originally had cars in sets of ten units, which bore the designations F, G, H, I, and J units on these cars (though I think most of these have been either retired or shortened). The way these cars have always been designated (and the way the units from those sites which have multi unit spine and well cars) is to start at the end with the brake wheel ("B end") place the intermediate units successively in ascending alphabetical order (C, D, E), with the "A" unit at the opposite end from the B unit.

One final point: there have never (to my knowledge) been "double stack" spine cars. Double Stack cars have always been of "well" design, as a double stack spine car would be too high for clearance.

ns
 
I can help with this part. Let me start with a more basic point, first, though. All railroad cars in the U.S. (and everywhere else, now that I think about it, but my comments are informed by US practices) have two ends, which have almost from the beginning, differed in one main point: the brakes are applied from one end of the car only. Presumably, because "brake" began with the letter "B", the end of the car where the brake wheel was located came to be known as the "B" end of the car, and the other end, since the letter "a" as available, known as the "A" end of the car. This is (as far as I can tell) universal in North American practice. Articulated cars, which until the development of articulated piggyback equipment in the 1970's, even though they were as long as two cars, and even when they were made by permanently joining two cars together with a drawbar, still were considered one car, and were joined in such a way that the brake wheel was only at one end off the car, so there was still an "A" end and a "B" end. The development of multi unit spine cars, and other multi unit intermodal cars created a new issue, because now there was a need to identify a specific platform. Still, though, these were a single car, and usually had a single brake wheel, so there was still an "A end" and a "B end". So when time came to designate the units of a multi unit car, the units at the end without a brake wheel was designated the "A" unit (as it was at the "A" end of the car) and the unit at the other end, where the "B" end was, was designated the "B" unit. Intermdiate units between the "A" and "B" units were given alphabetic designations, with "C" next to the "B" end, and if needed, followed by "D" further from the "B" end, and "E" still further from the "B" end. The ATSF, the first road to develop an articulated car, originally had cars in sets of ten units, which bore the designations F, G, H, I, and J units on these cars (though I think most of these have been either retired or shortened). The way these cars have always been designated (and the way the units from those sites which have multi unit spine and well cars) is to start at the end with the brake wheel ("B end") place the intermediate units successively in ascending alphabetical order (C, D, E), with the "A" unit at the opposite end from the B unit.

One final point: there have never (to my knowledge) been "double stack" spine cars. Double Stack cars have always been of "well" design, as a double stack spine car would be too high for clearance.

ns

Oh, oops. I arranged all my cars A-C-D-E-B. :hehe:
 
Oh, oops. I arranged all my cars A-C-D-E-B. :hehe:

In the game, it really doesn't matter. The C, D, and E units are all identical, and are differentiated mainly for accounting purposes, so that if, for example, a grab iron on unit E becomes damaged and needs to be replaced, the cost of replacement can be billed to the appropriate unit, and given the number of multi-unit platforms out there, I'd guess there are at least a few which are arranged as you have done, or in some other manner. But they're supposed to be arranged as I described.

On a related note, there are a number of multi-unit cars which are smaller than five unit sets, too. A number of single units have been combined into three unit sets, so if you want some variety, you will mix up single, three unit, and five unit sets, and trailers and containers, and some empty cars, as well. I rarely see an intermodal train in the U.S. without at least a few empty platforms or cars in it. I've seen empty platforms anywhere in the train; empty cars are nearly always at the end of the train.

ns
 
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