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Saint

Jul 2, 2019 @ 8:22am

Locomotive Replacement

Am I missing something or is it required to Scrap a loco and build an entire new loco and route in order to replace an aging or antiquated loco? If so, it would be great to be able to tell a train to return to station to get a new engine (so when you click to replace it with whichever type, it has to go to the home office as its next leg and do the upgrade there rather than just replace mid-track.)

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coenvijge

Jul 2, 2019 @ 8:29am

In the game at this moment there is only one method:

Copy your train.
Pick your new loco.
Delete the old train.

If you want to do it 'like in real life' you could also make another timetable in which you deliver your last cargo and send the loco to your home station. Also good to pick the right moment (don't throw away your cargo, it's money).

Last edited by coenvijge; Jul 22, 2019 @ 11:13am

Goemoe

Jul 2, 2019 @ 10:57am

You are missing the maintainance. If the engines are cared for in time they survive at least the first missions without any need to replace them. You can upgrade the stations with a lot of services, one of them repairs the engines.

Saint

Jul 6, 2019 @ 2:46pm

Originally posted by Goemoe:
You are missing the maintainance. If the engines are cared for in time they survive at least the first missions without any need to replace them. You can upgrade the stations with a lot of services, one of them repairs the engines.

Thanks for your response! I do use the maintenance shop, but when I want to replace an aging engine with a newer one (eg: John Bull for a Jarvis) I need to SCRAP the John Bull and build an entire new engine at the shop and re-apply the route to that one. I just thought it would be more realistic and even easier for the player to say, "go back to home and change to this new engine."

Empty1958

Jul 6, 2019 @ 4:49pm

coenvijge has the easiest method at the moment to replace a train. I usually do a "copy" and get it going. Then when the old one is empty I scrap it.
Hopefully a better option will be provided by the devs sometime.