Mel,
You may, of course, employ whichever tools this program makes available (there are many).? If you want to avoid schedules for now, you would still have some options to prevent the industry-to-industry moves.
If you want to figure out which locations should take which type of cars, you could limit those car-types from other locations, e.g. you currently have Pratt not servicing
Boxcar or
HopGrain but do permit
HopSand.
This is a good example of how you have already placed limitations on locations to prevent certain car-type movements.? If you continue to carefully plan these limitations, you should be able to get your cars to move to Arnold Yard as you would like.
So what if you need, say, a Boxcar to be able to travel to either Hanford?
or Mina in a loaded state (L), and then return to Arnold Yard in an empty state (E). If you prevent other industries in other locations from "servicing" (allowing) the Boxcars in an (E) state, then the only location that should be found to take them would be Arnold Yard.? So, if you change Mina (PRE Interchange) to allow only Boxcars in (L) state, then the Boxcar (E) from Hanford would not be able to go to that spur.
All this results in much planning on your part to get things just right.? If it doesn't bother you where the cars go from one location to another, then not much more need be changed.? Yet if you do want those cars to travel to Arnold Yard before being allowed elsewhere, you should be prepared to do lots of testing and resetting (use BackUp and Restore) as you get the setup dialed in.
You can always continue to post here with your results/questions and keep digging into those Build Reports to find the answers, as they "know all and see all...!!!"
Happy to help, hope it helps,
<Pete Johnson>
