can you have longer trains

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can you have longer trains

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I am just wondering if there is a mod where you can have trains with more cars, i built a track all the way around the map and I could not get more then 22 train cars, when i add more it says there is not enough space, please help
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No there isnt a mod to make trains longer.
Dont believe me?
Try search. :roll:
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flint wrote:No there isnt a mod to make trains longer.
Dont believe me?
Try search. :roll:
Actually, there is... but it's not a mod, it's more like exploiting a flaw. Trains are only allowed to be a certain number of blocks long. You can get around this by building your train on a curvy track connected to your mainline. See the attached screen-shot to see what I mean. Be aware that the maximum number of cars is about 40 before the game starts glitching out.
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thanks for the replies
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SD89MAC wrote:
flint wrote:No there isnt a mod to make trains longer.
Dont believe me?
Try search. :roll:
Actually, there is... but it's not a mod, it's more like exploiting a flaw. Trains are only allowed to be a certain number of blocks long. You can get around this by building your train on a curvy track connected to your mainline. See the attached screen-shot to see what I mean. Be aware that the maximum number of cars is about 40 before the game starts glitching out.

lol i made a 115 car train, thanks for the help
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what is the limit on a straight line?
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I think its like something like 20 or so cars on a straight line, but correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't played loco in like a month.
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I had the same problem - - I will do this later, should I need to!
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I tried it few hour ago and if I remember correctly I got a locomotive plus 26 or 27 wagons with us set.
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may i ask how to get screen shots, it says saved to disk as screenshot5, but i dont know where to find it at, i have a screen shot of a train with 90 cars i wanted to upload
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Your screenshots are saved in your locomotion file under C:/Programfiles/Atari/Locomotion, all the screenshots you've taken will be there. Mind that they are in BMP, and you can only upload PNG photo files. So change the picture to a PNG, in mspaint or some other program.
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also in vista, they are under the compatibility files tab
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In vista they're under the compatibility tab iff you have UAC turned on.
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