Multiple materials per train/Partial loads

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Multiple materials per train/Partial loads

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Is there a way to have one train with multiple different material wagons? i.e. Passenger and mail wagons, Iron Ore/Coal... Also, is there a way to setup a line that has orders to partial load at one station and then fill the remainder at a second station? Then to build on this base it off of time based orders? i.e. load fruit until 3 ticks(?) has passed then move to second station wait x ticks... This way trains are not sitting causing losses sitting in a station when they can move on to the next.
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Re: Multiple materials per train/Partial loads

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You can just put multiple kinds of wagons on a train, but just making an everything-in-one train generally is not profitable at all.
It can work if you use a NewGRF vehicle set with wagons that can refit to different cargo types, and have a train that can fill the entire train with cargo A at one end, deliver that at the other end and fill with cargo B on that end and take it back to the first end. The idea there being that you have the train run full everywhere, instead of having it run empty half the time.

There isn't a way to say "load half the capacity of iron ore" or something like that, a vehicle always loads as much as it can of a cargo, and similar it always unloads all of a cargo if it can.

I think the solution to your problem with trains losing money while loading at stations is to make sure you don't build too many trains, make sure the route is actually profitable with the production levels of the industries/towns involved.
And don't make trains that try to do everything at then get hung up on one station that isn't getting enough cargo produced to let the train move on to another part of the route that has too much cargo for the trains servicing it. If you have that kind of unbalanced scenario you just need to make them served by separate trains on separate routes. They can still run on the same track, just make sure the stations are on a side track so other trains that aren't stopping there can run past.
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Re: Multiple materials per train/Partial loads

Post by Eddi »

in general, you can mix wagons in one train as much as you like.

if you use NewGRFs, lots of wagons can carry different types of cargo (but only one type at the same time), then you can use "refit" orders to change the cargo, either to a specific one, or to any that happens to be available

however, there is no way to load less than "everything that is waiting", you can only wait for more cargo, not leave earlier than what it takes to load the initial batch of cargo
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