More Questions--Loading and Unloading Cargo

[Einsamer_Wolf]

I finished most of the fourth tutorial.
One thing that remains mysterious to me is how to determine whether or not the train is being loaded or uploaded. There seems to be no indication.
I pullled the train up to the fule dept by the airport. Then I cannot go back in cab mode and the train just sits there. There is no pop up telling me that it is being unloaded. Nor is there an indication of how much remains.
Anyway I think I got the hang of it. I have been forced to reduce the graphcis settings, although I keep the train on normal.
Thanks.

 

[OverlordNZ]

Ctrl-Right Click on the object.

 

[Einsamer_Wolf]

Ctrl-Right Click on the object.

The object being the rail car, or the depot?

 

[llebrez]

You can do it on both, industry or cars. But make sure that the cars are away from the industry or it may be hard to pinpoint where the action of the cursor is. Three more things: There is a flaw on this system: You don't know what commodities a car can carry unless you open it in surveyor and go to the configuration menus. It would be nice if the list of items a car can carry is visible in driver. If you load a gondola with coal (example), and save the session, coal may not be visible in the saved sessions, but the car is still loaded and can be un-loaded, just you don't see it. And last, if you bring a train to a multiple industry for loading or unloading, and it stops and you can't move it (can't see the speed knob at the right), it is because the industry is not properly configured. Look that the queue numbers are where they are supposed to be and all the other parameters are properly set.

 

[Einsamer_Wolf]

How long do i Have to wait generally. Is there a way I can tell that it is in the proess of unlaoding at the moment, ie seeing numbers go up and down?

 

[ct_krogen]

yea, there a commad called train product i think,, it a rule or a command you can d/l

 

[Einsamer_Wolf]

I downloaded the command unlaod all. However in the details it does not state how one activates this command. Any help?

 

[UltimateWarlord]

Not sure if this will help but the few times I used the tank cars I had to pull up the first tank to a certain spot before the pipes would come out to load or unload, in AI it will do this buy itself.

 

[Einsamer_Wolf]

Not sure if this will help but the few times I used the tank cars I had to pull up the first tank to a certain spot before the pipes would come out to load or unload, in AI it will do this buy itself.

Well I pulled the train in--and I do not see any pipes coming out. ...

 

[UltimateWarlord]

By any chance did you pick what commodity and then clear the car, if not they will not load either, if there is a retaining wall in front of the tanks pull the front of the first tank to the edge of it, give that a try.

 

[Einsamer_Wolf]

By any chance did you pick what commodity and then clear the car, if not they will not load either, if there is a retaining wall in front of the tanks pull the front of the first tank to the edge of it, give that a try.

Pick what commodity/ How do you do that? The tank cars are right on the platform.

 

[UltimateWarlord]

In City and Country watch tutorial 6 Commodities this will explain everything. I could explain it but would take me forever to type, I would make a poor secretary lol.

 

[danny5]

More Questions--Loading and Unloading Cargo

There is a way in driver to tell what a car can carry.(it called Emit Train Now from jointedrail web site.)
> It will tell you what a car loads with and how much it's carry.
> Also you can make up a train with it and send it to a portal. (not iportals)
> Using the re-rail portal you can send just cars without a engine.
Like CT_Krogen said there is a command that tells you what a driver is haulling on it's train and what tonnage he is pulling,not counting the loco's.
> Using this command dose not interfear with anyother commands you have given to a driver.
> So right clicking on any driver will display what he is carring.
Train Product info <kiud:478639:1058> On DLS
Re-rail portal <kuid2:116387:5:1> On DLS (might be built-in)
Emit Train Now <kuid2:117746:990:4> At jointedrail.com
> Sometimes this will not display when you first click on it just close it click again it will display.
> You must have a track mark and at least one portal,do not put anything for rolling stock then it will display all the rolling stock in your game.