Mail Trains

[Railsplitter]

I'm using an Industry mod that includes mail trucks, mail trains, and post offices. The mail trucks work just fine, but now I'm trying to move mail by train. I placed post offices next to the passenger stations and added a mail car to each passenger train. Nothing happens. The post office generates nothing.

So then I set up a truck line for mail and suddenly the post offices are generating LOTS of mail...but none of it goes on the trains.

What am I missing?

Thank you.

[Dirkels]

There is a strict seperation between passengers and cargo (mail being cargo) in this game. In this case you, I assume, you use a passenger station and cargo can't be picked up from a passenger station. It can be delivered to it but not picked up.

[Railsplitter]

OF COURSE!!! I need the put the mail cars on freight trains. Thank you.

[SoftwareSimian]

Since I felt that mail belongs on passenger trains rather than freight trains, I've experimented with attaching tiny freight stations at the end of passenger stations:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1314245335
That way the passenger train can pick up passengers, move forward a few metres, pick up the mail, then go to the next city and drop off passengers and mail, repeat. It's not quite as clean as having mail actually loaded at the same time as passengers, but that's a game limitation that can't be avoided, unfortunately.

[Railsplitter]

Hey, I like that idea! I tried butting two stations together with a separate train for passengers and mail, but the trains kept blocking each other. I think I'll give this a go. I cancelled my mail trains but I still have the stations, so that might work better.

Thanks.

[Yenky94]

Mod idea?
I saw a mod where the platform of one track is divided into to section, where 2 different trains can sit at the same time. Would be possible to create from this mod a station for passengers and cargo at the same time using the platform in two sections?

[SoftwareSimian]

Originally posted by Yenky94:

Would be possible to create from this mod a station for passengers and cargo at the same time using the platform in two sections?

No, limitations in the game engine don't allow for a station to be both passenger and cargo.

[canophone]

Originally posted by SoftwareSimian:

Originally posted by Yenky94:

Would be possible to create from this mod a station for passengers and cargo at the same time using the platform in two sections?

No, limitations in the game engine don't allow for a station to be both passenger and cargo.

Though I did notice mods adding separate bus stops from the station itself when installing the station.

[SoftwareSimian]

Yes, you can add tram / bus / truck stops to a station (or an industry), but you can't have a mixed passenger-train + cargo-train station, unfortunately. I believe Dirkels has experimented with this in the past and the game will just crash if you try and make a mixed station.