Multiple Industry Procedures?

[sterrett]

Hello - I have been tinkering with the Multiple Industry thingies -
I hadn't realised watching freight trains loading and unloading could be so much fun.

Just curious, I have been using the new BR 20T Lowmacs with various industry items:

1. If I select "Land Rover Army" X 2 as Product 1 and I say the Industry starts off with 100 units and I then select the "Caravan" with 100 units, the first 100 wagons are loaded with Land Rovers. Is there a way to randomise the load?

2. The Multiple Industry Track seems to only have capacity for 6 products. Is it possible to extend this?

Funny - I've used Trainz since it first arrived, but I've never really messed about with the "Industry" part of it and loading/unloading stuff (apart from the Container Area on Banks Heath which was rather fun!) but I'm really getting the bug now!

 

[fran1]

I think with a multi ind new you can limit the number of units to produce. So when it runs out of one the second will be loaded. Another way is to clone the lowmac, call it lowmac caravan. Remove the landrover kuid from the config file. Then alternate it in the consist or however you want.

 

[sterrett]

Ah! Thanks for the cloning tip! I hadn't thought of that.

However, if you subsequently created a "Scenario" for a route and wanted to share the "Scenario" on the DLS, it wouldn't work with cloned items.

I will try a bit of experimentation!