Hey Charlie,
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Q1)? This is accurate, and I have never found the need to filter other than through the schedule.? If you prevent E and L from leaving staging, you need not exclude those from any spur either.
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Q2)? While you can filter car/load for C/I tracks at a yard, if you are filtering by "destination", then only those car/loads tagged with the allowed destination should make it into those C/I tracks.? You can further ensure that the cars allowed in must have Final Dests. but be aware, this might limit the occasional empty car type from making into this track if it could be then sent along to meet a schedule line request.? Think the odd empty not tagged (by another schedule) to go a specific place...
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Q3)? The exception has a caveat... If the sending schedule points to a specific destination, the track at that location must also be named.? I.e. ship to [dest = Denver], + [track = Keebler Co.].? ?AND, there is the load conversion issue, whereby the custom load (since it is not named in a schedule) would convert to a default E, or if a custom empty, then conversion leads to a default L.
If you are looking to get a car pointed almost, but not all the way, to a spur, use the schedule to name a yard track that could then be served by the final train necessary to spot the car.? This will circumvent the "enroute" filter and the car will eventually get spotted.? Example of this might look like this...
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Schedule at Spur A "ships" the boxcar of <parts> to Denver, Roper Trk 3.
Roper Trk 3 serves only downtown Denver Industrial Area using Train (DEN Tramp).
Denver, Keebler Co. (the receiving spur) schedule "receives" boxcar of <parts>.? This will "pull" the loaded boxcar in when there is adequate space on the spur.
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Since Roper Trk 3 serves only DDIA, the car will not be allowed to leave and fill some other schedule calling for a boxcar of <parts>...
Be aware that the cars waiting in Trk 3 might lose their order of movement, if other cars are assigned to go straight to Keebler from another schedule.? This is because those cars would have named final dests. and be counted as "enroute" cars for Keebler.? So, when you build the DEN Tramp, the waiting cars would be seen as overfills at Keebler...? ?Hopefully that all make sense.
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Happy to help, hope it helps,
<Pete Johnson>
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