Needing some kind of a "Wait track" option, for Locations as in the example below:
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? An Industry is allowed one car length for loading, with an adjacent undesignated track (we will call this a Wait track for a moment). Two scheduled cars are delivered to this Industry/Spur, but only one can go to the Spur, the other to the Wait track for forwarding later to that Spur. The next train to service the Spur brings a new car. It pulls the load from the Spur, forwards the car on the Wait track to the Spur, and sets out the most recent car on the Wait track for forwarding next cycle.?
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So, we would like to use the Alternate Track designed for an "off spot", as a track used to take cars that do not fit in the Spur, but still need to go there.
Currently the program considers the Alternate Track as the destination and the car travels back to the yard and not the spur.
We would like to have the function of the Alternate Track to work as it does, except the car is forwarded to the intended Spur when there is room for it.
Currently we use schedules to route the car from the alternate track to the industry, but that does not always work because the program will send a car directly to the Spur from the Yard, so there is no room for the car from the alternate track (the waiting car gets bypassed).?
If the program could first check for cars at the alternate track, and assign them first, then the cars from the Yard / C/I track, it would work.?
Not being a programmer, we could be overly optimistic, but hopefully there is a way to do this... ? ?:)
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Jeff
