Convert Rail

[Zwark]

I want to convert almost all of my trains to monorail which is, having about 200 trains, a real pain in the a** to do manually. From the wiki I learned that with an edited version of OpenTTD http://wiki.openttd.org/Convert_rail it is possible to convert depots with trains in them. This way the trains wouldn't lose all of their orders.
The problem is that I can't compile from source. Is there an edited version out there?

[Vitus]

You don't need modified build in order to do that. All you need is universal railtype, so you can directly replace these trains. See this thread for info and the NewGRF.

You'll have to set its parameters to "1", this should give you access to universal railtype. All you have to do is to replace your current depots with these "universal" depots and let autoreplace work. Once all trains are replaced, you can convert whole network to desired railtype and release the trains.

[Zwark]

Thanks, this works for the engines. If I try to replace engines and wagons at the same time it doesn't work. Replacing the engines first and then the wagons (when they are still in the depot) doesn't work either.

Is there any way around this? Replacing all wagons by hand is still much work...

[Vitus]

Replacing wagons was broken (i.e. you couldn't build wagons in universal depot), this should be fixed now. Check the thread for new version of the NewGRF.

[Zwark]

With 1.3 electrified engines can't use the universal depots any more. Also the depot now only builds the universal engine.

[Zwark]

With 1.3 electrified engines can't use the universal depots any more. Also the depot now only builds the universal engine.

Forgot to set the parameter to 1 after the update. Now it works.

Thx