Coal cars not loading at Robinson?

[ironavenger86]

Today when I took the coal cars to Robinson and placed them, almost a whole day has passed and none of them have been loaded. Any known issues with this or should I wait overnight and they'll load?

[AshHill07]

Yeah sometimes it seems like they don't want to take them all. I'm starting to get a bit of a collection up there...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3130838617

[ironavenger86]

Yeah i just slept in the game and none of the cars loaded "overnight." Now I have another set of cars to load that'll take up the whole other siding.

[OzWally]

Did* you set load/unload each cars?

[AshHill07]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3131968974

Screenshot to show how long some of mine have been sitting here, and that some do have a small amount of coal in them, but they never seem to get more in them.

[Gripen]

i just did get 12 emty there and then stopped it litery rip the front car of my train and load it and dropt it at outgoing pickup spot in one sec flatt .. did scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of me lol

[senorduck]

Originally posted by Gripen:

i just did get 12 emty there and then stopped it litery rip the front car of my train and load it and dropt it at outgoing pickup spot in one sec flatt .. did scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of me lol

It kills me that you edited your comment and it still makes no literal sense!

[kaschunke]

Having the same issue. Out of 12 empty cars i brought to Robinson, 5 were loaded and placed at the pickup spot pretty quickly (maybe 3 hours or so ingame time). The final 7 cars are sitting at R1, 6 of them empty and one with 4,2t of coal for the past 4 ingame hours.
On my other game, i had the same issue with 3 cars not filling. I tried a lot, moving them to the other siding, pulling them out of R1/R2 and pushing them in again the next day, taking them to the interchange and back to Robinsons, nothing helped. Parked them on the small dead end track were they still sit. This happened only once in that game. No problems with any delivery since then for over 30 ingame days with robinson contract every day.

[philbill]

Have you all got a mining equipment car in place? I think if it runs out it stops producing coal?

[Nikoli Voldkif]

Originally posted by philbill:

Have you all got a mining equipment car in place? I think if it runs out it stops producing coal?

Yeah, this would be my question. You can check in the locations menu to see if work has stopped and why. If the box car with mining equipment is not in place, or empty, then the mine won't produce coal to ship out.

[AshHill07]

I'm not sure what caused the original problem (I suspect not the boxcar running out, since with me at least it happened two days in a row), but if that is the problem then Robinson seems to be forgetting that the cars are there. I have three sets still on one of the loading tracks right now (Two waiting for 24 days, five for 21 days and three for 20 days) and despite still picking up and dropping up cars every day, they haven't touched them since the day they were dropped off.

[Lemon Friend]

I'm wondering if you've tried to use Cycle.

[James 296]

it's a bug, I submitted a bug report on devs discord a while back. although more info will be help for the devs to track this down.

[kaschunke]

I've checked the tips given here: Locations menu for Robinson Gap Coal does not show production status at all (unlike Saw Mill). Mining supplies car is on siding S1 as it shoud and supplies are constantly used. Pulled supplies car out of S1 and back in - no change.
The problem may be linked to switching from tier 3 to tier 4 the day before the issue began (which increased the number of coal cars to deliver).

[kaschunke]

I pulled the partially loaded coal car out of R1 and the remaining empty cars started to be filled and parked in the area for transport to interchange.

[DorniNerd]

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