Multiple Industry New question

[WillPac]

Finally decided to use some of the non built-in commodities on my Chicago to Green Bay route, but I had a question about the MIN, which unless I am mistaken, is the ONLY way to use most of these third-party products. In the tutorial I got for the MIN back when I using TRS '06 says that under the Products tab, we MUST set the vehicle (rolling stock) that will carry the product. But this chooses just ONE car, not one type.

For example, I have a company in Naperville (just west of Chicago) called Great Lakes Vending Co. Their only output are vending machines, but they are used in many places, from Portland ME to Portland OR. But if I have to choose ONE car to haul them, I have to pick which ONE of the several THOUSAND boxcars I have running.

Is this an accurate assessment of this process? If I leave that blank, does that mean to NO box car that stops there will load a thing?

Ron S.
Willamette Pacific RR

 

[amrail2000]

just leave the train car section blank and it will load any car that will take that load. I have never put in what kind of car to load have never had any trouble with the MIN. I hope this helps.

 

[WillPac]

That is a big relief (and yeah, and a BIG help, too :clap. Thanks.

Ron

 

[JohnnyC1]

Finally decided to use some of the non built-in commodities on my Chicago to Green Bay route, but I had a question about the MIN, which unless I am mistaken, is the ONLY way to use most of these third-party products. In the tutorial I got for the MIN back when I using TRS '06 says that under the Products tab, we MUST set the vehicle (rolling stock) that will carry the product. But this chooses just ONE car, not one type.

For example, I have a company in Naperville (just west of Chicago) called Great Lakes Vending Co. Their only output are vending machines, but they are used in many places, from Portland ME to Portland OR. But if I have to choose ONE car to haul them, I have to pick which ONE of the several THOUSAND boxcars I have running.




Is this an accurate assessment of this process? If I leave that blank, does that mean to NO box car that stops there will load a thing?

Ron S.
Willamette Pacific RR

No, MIN this is not the only method of loading product. Look up "ProtoLars & Basic Industry" industry tracks on the DLS. These industry tracks are proceeded by "PL" for ProtolLars & "BI or BI2" for the Basic Industry tracks. Check out TPR at http://trainzproroutes.com/ for a description & installation instructions. Go to the Forums/Goddies

John

 

[WillPac]

No, MIN this is not the only method of loading product. Look up "ProtoLars & Basic Industry" industry tracks on the DLS. These industry tracks are proceeded by "PL" for ProtolLars & "BI or BI2" for the Basic Industry tracks. Check out TPR at http://trainzproroutes.com/ for a description & installation instructions. Go to the Forums/Goddies

John

Oh I have all of those. But for all of the non-LARS products out there (like the vending machines for my aforementioned GLVC, and things like appliances, furniture, specific food and cleaning products, TVs, PCs, Playstations, infant safety products, etc.) I am pretty sure the MIN is only way to get those into production.

 

[JohnnyC1]

They work with all products that you have installed. I only use PL & BI/BI2 tracks and I have over 300 products to carry, LARS & non-LARS, it does not matter. They are easy to configure industry groups that receive & ship product groups, just set-up once and copy to industry location, no setting up lists, drive instructions, leave at the industry for loading/un-loading, prototypical.

John

 

[dnevans8]

Check out this thread by msgsapper who has made many additional industry tracks and shows how to modify them for any products not included in those already available.

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?75797-New-LARS-BI2-Industries-for-Trainz

 

[mtldrm38]

correct me if I am wrong but you have to config all those cars to accept the products also or they wont load.........

 

[JohnnyC1]

Yes & no, you can use the product category, bulk, liquid bulk, or container for freight cars:

allowed-categories
{
0 <kuid:-3:10040> Bulk Load
1 <kuid:-3:10042> Conainer
2 <kuid:-3:10044> Liquid Load
}
Or you can restrict selected rolling stock to certain products. If you use the categories, you might be in for some surprises as many of the products on the DLS are not in their correct category class ie; bulk (liquid/dry) or container, so you could get a tank car loaded with sand or hopper with milk, and if your your boxcars have loading attachment points you might get a 53ft container loaded on your Hy-cube 40ft Box car.

Restricting loads to certain rolling stock is not as hard as you might think. If you play everyday, just choose a type of car and add those products that match your industries, do this before game start and eventually everthing will be covered, it took me 2 months. Just remember to save you queues.


If you want a tank car to accept all liquid loads you do this:


queues
{
load1
{
size 80500
initial-count 0

allowed-categories
{
0 <kuid:-3:10044>
}

allowed-products
{
0 <kuid:-3:10012>
}
}


John