Newbie...Where do I take stuff?

cj95

New member
Greetings.

I am enjoying driving my little trains around the map, but please forgive a stupid question....

Is there some sort of simple way to figure out where I am supposed to take which product? Say I lock onto a set of boxcars or whatever, where exactly do I take them?

I know how to move around the map (sorta) and know how to examine whats in my cargo cars, but sometimes its not obvious as to what industries needs what.


(For example in a scenario im in now I have a line of wellcars with boxes on top but where do I take them?)


Thanks for any help
 
Here is Search I did on Forum re your question.

Never a stupid question, ask away,,,that is how we all learn.

So in answer to your question, I did a quick search on "Industry Sort" and got this return of Msg's which I think will help you get started.......

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/search.php?searchid=2439990

One of other thing you can do?

Go into a route edit or quick drive doesn't matter, open the Find Object sub menu, Left Corner of your screen and you see this pop up,,,,this is going to be one of your best friends for all kinds of things in your route once you get used to using it.

I searched in my route with this option, all the Industry's on the route, or the other picture Track side Objects, this will tell you what you have going on your route, quick and easy......You can also find lost ?Trains, Cars etc if you don't recall were they are on a big layout.....

Until you get used to that Find Object, ignore the All Sub menu, it will show an extremely long list of everything on your Route combined.......

Now as far as what goes to what, actually it's only limited to what your Industry will take, and having the correct Car that will carry that commodity, think of it this way,,,,You wouldn't carry a Bulldozer in a Coal Car, and you would drop Coal on a flat car either, right?

Then Box Cars carry anything in a Box or a Bag , Crate etc., Tank Cars carry liquids, Beam Cars, carry all sorts of Wood Products, Gondola's carry Scrap of every kind imaginable......And there are other special cars for oddities later when you want to expand what your playing with........Like Smelter Cars......Depressed Center Flatcars......

On your other menu, you have something called Commodity picker, it shows if I'm correct what you have on the Route your operating on? Someone else correct me if I'm in error.

Also in sessions, you'll see another menu in Tools Menu, that says Waybills, that becomes active when an Industry runs out of a product, and says it in the way bill, what it requires and the name of the industry.

It takes some time to learn this stuff, also when you download different stuff, Cars, they may come with Commodities that you haven't acquired before, and you might not have the Industry for that new car, then you'll need to add that new industry to your Route, or change the commodity or add a commodity you have already.

I seen cars come with a 12 different commodities, not unusual....

Hope this helps a little, I'm sure others will way in with help too....And maybe explain it better than I have.

Good luck.......
 
Wow!

I'm blown away by the very detailed reply complete with pics and everything.
Its going to take me some time to even begin to try to understand everything you just said, but I don't mind this kind of homework:)
Obvious things like Coal and lumber or whatnot should be easy to figure out, but those mysterious 'boxcars' are like packaged mysteries.

(I wonder however is there anyway in-game to get all this info without opening up the editor?)


Anyways, I'm off to play around with some menus...Again, thanks for taking the time for such a detailed answer.
Wow!


(Only thing....you link http://forums.auran.com/trainz/search.php?searchid=2439990 showed no results. )
 
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You can be like me, and just assemble cool looking trains (3392 RGCX railcars a 32 mile long train) ... the only thing I have ever loaded, was coal hoppers, and flat cars (visible loads) :hehe:

I load up 2 yards on each end of my route, and play "avoid gridlock", moving trains eastward and westward
 
There is one new thing about using Tane that Philskene let us know.
It is the fact that you can load or unload wagons by using the rollingstock flyout on the right side of the screen.
You use the question mark and click on the wagon and then choose to load or unload whatever it has listed.
You can also list extra loads if you want.
It means you can drop off wagons at an industry and without setting it up, come back and load/unload one or all of them while your driver is doing something else. That way you can choose anything you want for your industry.
Cheers,
Mike
 
cj --

From Mike's post above:

"There is one new thing about using Tane that Philskene let us know.
It is the fact that you can load or unload wagons by using the rollingstock flyout on the right side of the screen."

This shows how (full screen / 1080p):


Phil
 
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