Add wagons to already existing trains?

[GeileSockeAltF4]

I cannot find an option to add more wagons to an existing train.. If I call a train back to it's "home base" and buy more wagons, they appear as a new train but i cant add them to the existing one.

[Autocoach]

What you want to do is possible - to amend a train in the depot by adding to removing vehicles , you will get an extra spanner (wrench) icon when the train is in the depot allowing modification .

However joining two trains or splitting one train and using it as two is no longer possible

[GeileSockeAltF4]

Found it, thanks!

[Smarly]

Could you please explain in detail how to add existing wagons to an existing train (in depot)?

I am currently playing the tutorial mission. I bought a train and 3 wagons (separately). All four vehicles are now happily sitting in my shiny new depot, but I am totally unable to hitch the existing wagons from the depot to the existing train (also in depot).

When I select the train in the vehicle manager and click on the "wrench / edit vehicle" symbol, the only thing I can do is buy new wagons for the train (which in fact I cannot even do, because I keep getting a message that there are no more wagons available which could be bought).

So, instead of trying to buy new wagons for the train, how can I hitch the existing wagons from the depot to the train?

I do feel rather stupid, this seems like such a fundamental thing ... it should be really easy to do any quite obvious (especially since I have spent hundreds of hours on TF1), but I am at an absolute loss here ... any help would be most appreciated.

[captain403]

The fact that you can't join trains creates another annoyance. Because the vehicle colour is set after the train is purchased, you can't have the loco a custom colour and coaches another custom colour. I do wish you could do it, you could in TpF1.

[Autocoach]

Originally posted by Smarly:

Could you please explain in detail how to add existing wagons to an existing train (in depot)?

I am currently playing the tutorial mission. I bought a train and 3 wagons (separately). All four vehicles are now happily sitting in my shiny new depot, but I am totally unable to hitch the existing wagons from the depot to the existing train (also in depot).

When I select the train in the vehicle manager and click on the "wrench / edit vehicle" symbol, the only thing I can do is buy new wagons for the train (which in fact I cannot even do, because I keep getting a message that there are no more wagons available which could be bought).

So, instead of trying to buy new wagons for the train, how can I hitch the existing wagons from the depot to the train?

I do feel rather stupid, this seems like such a fundamental thing ... it should be really easy to do any quite obvious (especially since I have spent hundreds of hours on TF1), but I am at an absolute loss here ... any help would be most appreciated.

This cannot be done . Massive issue for me

[Smarly]

Originally posted by Autocoach:

This cannot be done . Massive issue for me

Seriously?!? WTF?!?

I had read some posts prior to launch claiming that apparently they had "dumbed down" the game ... but this is unacceptable! Changing the configuration of existing trains (without having to sell and re-buy the wagons) was one of the most fundamental (and one of the most fun) aspects of TF1.

Really disappointed! :(

Thanks for the reply though.

[Autocoach]

OK . What you cannot do that I did all the time in TpF1 is the following from my current vanilla game.

D 1/3 can carry 48 (12 wagons)
Borsig can carry 64 (16 wagons)

Start with 4 D1/3 trains buy 3 Borsigs using the same wagons send out 3 longer Borsig trains and then use the D1/3 for something else by attaching them together and moving light engine elsewhere.

Now you can only edit 4 D1/3 trains and buy 4 new wagons for them each . Bin one train entirely and bin the old locos .

[GlobalGenocide]

You can still selectively edit trains by selecting them in the vehicle manager, for instance if you have a line with 6 trucks, 3 new and 3 older models just click on the little circle(far left of vehicle information) and replace just those vehicles leaving the other newer models completely alone.

[GlobalGenocide]

https://imgur.com/a/sGf28ER
Screenshot showing the button you need to click etc. In this instance I would be replacing vehicle 14 alone.

[Smarly]

Originally posted by Global Genocide:

You can still selectively edit trains by selecting them in the vehicle manager, for instance if you have a line with 6 trucks, 3 new and 3 older models just click on the little circle(far left of vehicle information) and replace just those vehicles leaving the other newer models completely alone.

Yes, but again, this only highlights that you need to "replace" a vehicle if you want to change it's configuration. "Replace" essentially means you sell the old vehicle and buy a new one, loosing money in the process (as the old vehicle will be sold at a lower price than the new vehicle costs).

If I have two existing trains A and B, with 4 wagons each, and I want to move 2 wagons from train A to B (with the goal of train A having 2 wagons and train B having 6 wagons) I do NOT want to sell 2 wagons from train A and buy two new wagons for train B. This will loose me money, as the two wagons from train A will sell for less money then the two new wagons for train B cost.

I have already paid for the 8 wagons I posses - now I just want to move the wagons from train A to B, without having to pay extra money for an intermediate sell/buy process.

[uzurpatorex]

Not being able to edit a train ( easily, as "replace" works in situ, so should edit ), or to merge two/three trains is a major issue.

[Farradin]

Not being able to move train wagons around in a station is just dumb and a game breaker for me. I get I can buy a new wagon and add it but that isn't what I want to do sometimes. Developers...Please tell me plan to fix this in a patch soon, otherwise I'm returning this.

[maxter]

Originally posted by MysteriAnt:

You can modify trains, you need to send them back into a depot and select the Edit icon (little spanner), you then edit the configuration in the little window display above (delete wagons you want removed and add wagon you want to include) then pay for the modification.

And this si the problem, I do not want to buy new wagons, just reallocate the wagons that I already own between trains to suit the demand. Just dumb, hopefully the developers will fix.

[Kobe18883]

Originally posted by maxter:

Originally posted by MysteriAnt:

You can modify trains, you need to send them back into a depot and select the Edit icon (little spanner), you then edit the configuration in the little window display above (delete wagons you want removed and add wagon you want to include) then pay for the modification.

And this si the problem, I do not want to buy new wagons, just reallocate the wagons that I already own between trains to suit the demand. Just dumb, hopefully the developers will fix.

And this is the answer for your problem!
Send both trains to the same depot and switch waggons!

[SebastianD334]

Originally posted by captain403:

The fact that you can't join trains creates another annoyance. Because the vehicle colour is set after the train is purchased, you can't have the loco a custom colour and coaches another custom colour. I do wish you could do it, you could in TpF1.

you can:
you have to select both trains in the depot and then click on the wrench