Name The location name must be unique; the program will not allow two locations with identical names. However, if you want more than one location to have the same name for your manifests and switch lists, add a hyphen and a number to the locations name. For example, Boston-1 and Boston-2 will print as Boston. The program will remove the hyphen and number when printing manifests and switch lists.
Add Location Window Menu
Tools
Change Track Type
Press the at the bottom of the panel. The various fields that were disabled should be enabled.
Each location can have several yard, spurs, interchange or staging tracks. Yards are where cars and engines are placed for temporary storage. A spur can be an industry or any place where a car is loaded or unloaded. For a train to service a location, there must be at least one track for that location. See below how to add tracks to your location.
Select the rolling stock serviced by this location
The tables show the length of the tracks, the amount of track that is occupied (Used) by cars and engines, the total number of cars and engines (Rolling Stock) at each location, the number of cars and engines that will be picked up (Pickups) by trains, and the number of cars and engines that will be delivered (Drops) by trains.
This Location is Serviced by Trains Traveling
North
South
East
West
You
can decide which train direction the location can service. For example,
if only south bound trains can access the location select South and
deselect the other directions. This can be useful if you want to only
support trailing point switching for a given location. If a location
can support multiple directions then select the ones that are
appropriate.
Operations at this location
Spurs
Yards
Classification/Interchange
Staging only
To
add a location, press the "Add ... Track" button. Now enter the name of
the location along with the length of the track in scale feet or in
actual inches. Append a double quote (") to the length when entering
actual inches and the program will convert the length into scale feet.
Append cm if you want to convert from centimeters to meters. Press the
"Add ... Track" button at the bottom of the panel and the disabled
fields should now appear.
The at the bottom of the window will change corresponding to the location you want to add.
To add a location , press the "Add ...(location)" button.
Add Classification/Interchange Track
Spurs are very similar to Yards, so see above for more information. You can if you wish schedule the order that cars will be delivered to a spur. See Schedules below for more information.
