Replacing Locomotives and Wagons separately

[Oddible]

When a train has hit its year limit I don't see a way to see the age of the locomotives and wagons separately - I have to manually split them apart in the depot. For instance I bought the locomotive and 2 wagons, then added 2 wagons a few years later, then added 2 more a few years later. I can't see the ages of all of the wagons. Is this the best way to do it? Should I just replace all the wagons 10 years early to avoid the work stoppage of replacing them when they expire?

Also, does auto replacement replace individual wagons or only the whole train when one car reaches its limit?

[genemead]

Auto repacement replaces the whole train BUT you get credit for the whole old train too, depending on the age of each wagon (new wagon=full credit, old wagon=partial credit).

You can see the age of the OLDEST vehicle (of a train) by pulling up the line info (click on the "!" in the lower left corner). Age of each individual wagon? Sorry, not possible.

[EvilVictor]

The only way to replace them one at a time is by pulling the train off the line and into a depot, in there you can manually move them, remove them and add locomotives & wagons without replacing the entire train.

Early on it can save you from taking out a big loan at the expense of really messing with indsutries on the line when there is suddenly no train. Later on it's really a wash since replacing the full train resets their running costs back to the minimum and the "trade-in" credit of the old train is usually substantial. Plus there is the convenience factor of having it upgrade at the next stop without needing to go back to the depot or interrupting the line service.

So yeah, what you said in the OP :)

[Autocoach]

Only additional thing i can offer is a train at 100% age is worth 13% of original or has +50% maintenance so if your train says it is 100% and is worth more it has some parts that are newer.

[Oddible]

Awesome, thanks all. I'm playing through my first Free Game now and while the money is finally rolling in I think I'll manually fiddle with it until I'm a bit more solvent.