Engines front/back?

[TyCobb]

I know I can put on multiple engines (very happy), but I am curious on set ups. I dislike it when games allow for the train to just teleport reverse out of a station if the only way out is the way they came in. This game does appear to have options to disable that.

But I am curious on trains with 2 engines -- 1 at the front and 1 at the rear. I randomly bought 2 engines and put a few cabs in between just to see what it would do, but my current game had reversing enabled anyway so I couldn't really test that. However, I did notice the engines all faced the same direction.

Is there a way or is it planned to have a engines face the opposite direction when they are at the ends? I am also curious if this would allow the train to not teleport in a station if it was a dead-end and possibly override the game setting since realistically, it should have the ability to properly travel to the next destination.

I am sorry if this is blatantly obvious in the game as I apparently completely missed it

[ƎϽ∀ƎԀ]

There is a comment in the advanced settings for starting a new game, in the setting for reversing when reaching the end of line. It states you would need to research engines that can be driven both directions, so, I believe what you request has yet to be incorporated into the game.

[TyCobb]

Ah nice! Then I guess it's either just a rendering issue that they all face the same direction or the train I chose isn't meant to be one of those. Either way, it appears it will eventually be in the game and that's great.

Thanks for the info.

[jtrucker.jt]

There is a few of modded engines which are facing both ways. But it is just for visuals. The "reversed" engine has high speed going backwards and slow "reversing" speed going forward actually.
But for visual it looks like the train arrives at the station and then goes back being pulled by the other engine. It is not true, the train "flipped" but it looks that way :-)

I'm not sure if there is plan to make some engines facing backwards AND going full speed in that direction in vanilla game. I believe the game mechanics as they are simply prevent it. But of course, I'm not the boss :-)

As for the setting, the description of "trains reverse at end of line" is misleading.
Basically, it is a parameter which directs train behavior if it needs to go in the opposite direction (regardless whether it is end of line or elsewhere). If this parameter is disabled - the train does magic flip - anywhere and everywhere, when it needs to go back, or when you press the "reverse" button in train window.
If this parameter is enabled, the train does not flip, but starts traveling backwards with the max speed penalty (even those modded backward facing engines). To prevent him from doping so, you must disable the other "reverse" parameters (at station, on steep hill, ...) and build a loop or "Y" shaped track where the train can change directions.