Track to Load & Unload Lumber?

[boleyd]

Is Transfer Track the only way to load and unload lumber in a lumber yard? I cannot find a lumber yard with a built-in Load/Unload function.
There used to be one with a built-in load/unload track at the back of the yard.
I cannot get the Transfer Track instruction to work. Anyone know something about it?

 

[JimDep]

Is Transfer Track the only way to load and unload lumber in a lumber yard? I cannot find a lumber yard with a built-in Load/Unload function.
There used to be one with a built-in load/unload track at the back of the yard.
I cannot get the Transfer Track instruction to work. Anyone know something about it?

I remember there used to be one too. In the future, I'll be getting to an area in my route that I'll be needing to load, unload lumber also. I hope you get a response from someone who knows.

 

[sw1500]

Is Transfer Track the only way to load and unload lumber in a lumber yard? I cannot find a lumber yard with a built-in Load/Unload function.
There used to be one with a built-in load/unload track at the back of the yard.
I cannot get the Transfer Track instruction to work. Anyone know something about it?

Lumber Warehouse <kuid2:35815:26206:3> is a small lumber shed that can hold 28 lumber loads from the sawmill <kuid:-25:1233>.

 

[stagecoach]

<kuid2:439337:105605:2> SAP_BI3_Wood_and_Lumber
<kuid:439337:104359> BI2 Wood Extended

 

[TSwenson]

I usually use one of the multi/basic industry tracks and place the buildings in a different layer, to avoid issues with overlapping objects. The "Multi Industry" series and the "basic industry" (BI2,BI3) series tracks are useful for a multitude of applications and most of them can be configured easily in the session part of Surveyor (i.e. edit session) by using the "?" in the "objects" tab. As I recall the "BI2" script, in the "extern" field, lets one link multiple tracks together to make one industry such that one could have separate tracks for multiple input/s or output/s in a process; i.e. two input tracks one unloading a liquid product (paint?) and one unloading a solid product (lumber?) both linked to a third outputting a third product (furniture?). In the example if one didn't input product in the queues then the output would cease once the queues emptied. This is fiddly and takes some trial and error with a lot of PATIENCE!

From your post I got the impression you are unloading from regular flatcars, however, if you are representing a lumber yard after about 1970 you will need a flat open area to unload centerbeam flats (which have to be unloaded evenly from both sides).

 

[Alco_P-A]

I use multi-industry tracks which come in different lengths. MSGSnapper has a track that loads/unloads lumber. Put in lumber in the DLS and see what comes up. Should be some there to choose from.