Some interesting things happened on the way to the roundhouse today. Per our discussion I changed all my yard C/I tracks to ¡°accept all cars/loads¡± and I added ?¡°exclude E and L¡± ?to the ¡°ship load options¡± on all staging tracks. These per my understanding of your answers to my previous questions.
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The first problem occurred when I ran a local from a yard C/I to several industries and terminating back in the yard. The train tried to set out some empty cars it had just ?picked up on its run back to the C/I it had just left. The schedules for industries on the route called for loaded ?cars, not empties. The cars had custom loads ?¡±empty¡±, not the default L. Apparently the program did not check for schedules at sites being served by the yard C/I on its return, only that the C/I would accept all loads. I went back to listing specific acceptable loads and the problem went away. I also tried a different local from the yard and did not see the problem but I didn¡¯t spend a lot of time trying to understand the difference.
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The second problem occurred when I tried to run a train from one of the staging tracks. The run should have originated in a staging location, exchanged cuts on a C/I track in the yard, and returned to the originating staging location. The train build failed due to not being able to leave staging with default E cars. I have the staging tracks set to ¡°empty cars with custom loads¡± so all cars that cannot be loaded with a custom load matching a valid schedule on the layout will be left with the default E. Trying to restrict E and L at staging does not seem to be viable unless I misunderstood your suggestion.
