Switch cars to new train?

[The Former]

Is it possible to do this thing? It'd be CONSIDERABLY cheaper for me to swap these cars to my new engine and by new cars for the old engine, rather than buy two new engines.

[Autocoach]

Alas no. You can modify a single train in the depot but not merge two trains .

[The Former]

Unfortunate. Guess I'm in for a loss then. This is what I get for not exercising foresight! That'll learn me as I start setting up new lines for the future.

[QuiGon]

This is is a major drawback compared to TF1! It's actually the most annoying aspect of this game for me. I made very frequent use of this feature in TF1, as it's a great way to save money if you can just reuse wagons for another train! Why has this feature been removed for TF2??

[mmarino72]

Yes you can.. you need the old train in the depot, buy and add the new locomotive to your train, use the arrows to move the locomotive to the front, sell the old locomotive

[The Former]

Originally posted by mmarino72:

Yes you can.. you need the old train in the depot, buy and add the new locomotive to your train, use the arrows to move the locomotive to the front, sell the old locomotive

Well, you can also just sell the old locomotive and buy a new one. But that's not 100% what I wanted to do here. I wanted to use the old locomotive for... Well, I'll just explain because it might be a head-scratcher without context.

I made a small, early train for a long leg of my machinery supply chain. Gave it five flatbed cars because it really couldn't have handled much more weight, given how hilly my map is. It was gonna be handling logs and wood exclusively.

Once I was able to upgrade to a stronger engine, I decided I wanted to create a new, shorter line to transport ore and coal to the steel mill, rather than keep having carts do it. I wanted to switch the old engine to gondola duty, and the new engine, I thought I'd give the stake cars to (plus a few more) for the longer leg of the journey.

In short, I wanted to keep my old engine and give it a new role that required different cars, but the only way I could find to do that was to sell all the stake cars and rebuy them from the ground up for the new engine.

[QuiGon]

Originally posted by mmarino72:

Yes you can.. you need the old train in the depot, buy and add the new locomotive to your train, use the arrows to move the locomotive to the front, sell the old locomotive

But I don't want to buy or sell stuff! I want to reorganize my existing trains by swapping wagons and locos between them! Or just now I wanted to merge two of my trains into a single one. All of this was possible in TF1, but not anymore so in TF2... :(

[phalstar]

why would they remove this functionality? It's very handy in some circumstances... ugh, simplification isn't always better if you lose control of things.

[Autocoach]

The beta test version brings it back , it is more fiddly than tpf1 but does work

[neldot]

Originally posted by Autocoach:

The beta test version brings it back , it is more fiddly than tpf1 but does work

This, as Autocoach said, now it's possible again in the latest BETA release, but with this new clunky UI, you have to click a lot more times than it was needed in TPF1.

[Martin]

Originally posted by Sheriff of Nothingham:

Originally posted by mmarino72:

Yes you can.. you need the old train in the depot, buy and add the new locomotive to your train, use the arrows to move the locomotive to the front, sell the old locomotive

Well, you can also just sell the old locomotive and buy a new one. But that's not 100% what I wanted to do here. I wanted to use the old locomotive for... Well, I'll just explain because it might be a head-scratcher without context.

I made a small, early train for a long leg of my machinery supply chain. Gave it five flatbed cars because it really couldn't have handled much more weight, given how hilly my map is. It was gonna be handling logs and wood exclusively.

Once I was able to upgrade to a stronger engine, I decided I wanted to create a new, shorter line to transport ore and coal to the steel mill, rather than keep having carts do it. I wanted to switch the old engine to gondola duty, and the new engine, I thought I'd give the stake cars to (plus a few more) for the longer leg of the journey.

In short, I wanted to keep my old engine and give it a new role that required different cars, but the only way I could find to do that was to sell all the stake cars and rebuy them from the ground up for the new engine.

There is no doubt that you might need to keep older engines etc for other purposes, but it isn't really viable, unless you've just setup a passenger line and need it to grow before you put something on it that's worthwhile.