Railway/Automated transport

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< Railway | Automated transport

Basic

  • When you build your first automated transport, try to make it simple!
  • Enter the train by pressing enter-key.
  • To setup a train route right click on your locomotive,
  • add minimum two stops and click the start button.
  • If the train is fueled it will start immediately.
  • Drive with the train, to look, if it works.
  • To drive the train manually, make sure, you turned off the automatic!

Advanced

  • When right-clicking on the locomotive you can set up a schedule:
    • The lower window are the list of all existing train stops,
    • the upper window is the route, the train should do.
    • You can open the map (M) to see all stop-names.
    • The highlighted entry is the current target.
    • Hit the +-button to add a train stop below the above selected train stop.
    • Railway network/Train schedule: Time which the train will wait at the selected train stop.

For the other functions see the mouse hover info.

Train doesn't start?

No path?

When trains cannot reach the target and stands still, while a "no path" pops up over the locomotive. Check: