Problem making AI trains dump coal at a rotary dumper

Matt996

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OK, I don't know what I'm doing wrong with this.

My goal is to create AI coal traffic from a portal to a rotary dumper, then off to another portal. Seems pretty simple. To try to provide for the fact that eventually, the coal trains will come from several different portals and disappear into several other different portals, I created a Schedule Library schedule that's supposed to act like a subroutine -- it just dumps five cars at the dumper. The driver schedule uses the "dump five cars" library schedule five times (for a 25-car train), then sends the train off to the portal to go bye-bye. For testing purposes, the train starts out on a yard track because I figure it's better to only take on one impossibility at a time. ;o)

One problem -- It don't work!

The dump car schedule item gets copied into the train's schedule OK -- except the portal command gets put BEFORE all of them. Because of the track alignments, there's no route, so the train just sits there in the yard. Once the portal command is manually moved to the end of the driver schedule where it belongs, everything sorta works -- but the train only dumps the first car before hightailing it for the portal.

1. How do I make sure the portal gets put LAST, like it's supposed to?
2. Why is only one car being dumped?
3. What the heck am I missing here?
 
1.You will need to put the commands in order on the schedule library - a hint though: use a 5-second wait before the Copy Commands From command.
2.Have you made sure you have an unload command after the Drive or Navigate To command?
3.See above.

Shane
 
The rotary dumper is a manual job (pretty sure), back into the dumper, 1 car auto uncouples. draw out. Bell rings blah blah, dumper empties car and goes back to upright position.
You back in again bumping the empty car out but stopping the next full car ready for unloading, auto uncouple etc etc. You get the idea.
Phil c has done a video of it to give you a better idea.

Here you are

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/show...oal-car-dumper-a-demo&highlight=rotary+dumper
 
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