Maintenance Depot

[Thunderchild08]

So I was just wondering why when a train is being serviced the water/oil/sand isn't filled up? I would've thought this would be part of a service? This seems like a strange thing to not happen. So I have trains that have been serviced and still then need to go to supply tower

[coenvijge]

On the railroad the 'daily' refilling (mostly diesel at the moment) is in many cases completely separated from the general maintenance after a certain period or number of km's/miles.
More or less the same as taking your car to a garage for the yearly check-up. In general you don't get it back with 100% fuel.

[Thunderchild08]

No, but I'd get it back with Oil and water. The supply tower doesn't fill it up with coal, that seems to be completely glossed over too

[coenvijge]

Yep. It would be better that coal, water and sand where simulated.

[RolandBP]

Originally posted by coenvijge:

Yep. It would be better that coal, water and sand where simulated.

Fully Agree those 3 things required specialist facilities.
Oil on the other hand was in oil cans.

[aj1434]

Originally posted by coenvijge:

On the railroad the 'daily' refilling (mostly diesel at the moment) is in many cases completely separated from the general maintenance after a certain period or number of km's/miles.
More or less the same as taking your car to a garage for the yearly check-up. In general you don't get it back with 100% fuel.

This is flatly not true. Firstly, any routine or heavy maintenance depot on the railroad would absolutely perform running items like filling it with fuel, oil, and sand on the locomotive before putting it back in service. You can argue that smaller stations would fill liquids but not perform maintenance, but to argue the converse is not true. And since the filling station does not perform maintenance that is realistic, the converse is not. If you build a full on station and add the maintenance depot it should maintain the locomotive and refill the liquids. That is how it works at actual railroad which I know since I work for BNSF, an actual railroad in the US.

Secondly, from a more general perspective since this game takes liberties with how rail operations work relative to the real world that seems like an obscure change to make from the first game in the name of realism when we still don't have meaningful ways to prioritize freight, bypass trains, have multiple trains use a grid iron at once, or even circularize curves in track construction...all things that actual railroads do.

In short, no, they screwed up with the maintenance depot station add on in this game.

[coenvijge]

Originally posted by aj1434:

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In short, no, they screwed up with the maintenance depot station add on in this game.

So they 'screwed up with the maintenance depot' because it's not doing also the daily refill, like BNSF does (today) and seperated completely the daily refilling from the long-term maintenance?

[aj1434]

Originally posted by coenvijge:

Originally posted by aj1434:

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In short, no, they screwed up with the maintenance depot station add on in this game.

So they 'screwed up with the maintenance depot' because it's not doing also the daily refill, like BNSF does (today) and seperated completely the daily refilling from the long-term maintenance?

Yes.