Official Top Post Thread Freight Trains

**Tiger** · #1 Jun 08 2019, 08:46 AM

This thread is for reporting problems concerning any of the Freight Trains and Long cars.

Please read the following information BEFORE posting in this thread. Thank you!

Sending Boosts for your own trains and Boosting other farmers trains is now done from within the Train Manager.
For information on the NEW Criteria and Method for Train Boosts and how to use Manage when you see it on a received train boost CLICK HERE

If you have never used the trains before please go to Chapter 29 Freight Trains for more details.
In that chapter you will find which trains can help with Facility work, how to correctly connect them, how many you can have, requirements to earn the Mayor bonus when unloading trains, how to use the train Manager in your toolbox.

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UPDATE July 7th 2024 - A new Boost All Trains button has been added to the Train Manager.

To use the Boost All Trains button to boost all farming friends Trains that you receive in your Train Manager with one click, you will need:
4 locomotives with 10 different long cars on each of them AND they must be dispatched.
Remember that you can only have 3 of the same speed locomotive dispatched at the same time!

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Only one of each speed locomotive (1x Standard Freight Locomotive, 1x Enhanced Freight Locomotive, 1x Ultimate Freight Locomotive, 1x Supreme Freight Locomotive, 1x Turbo Freight Locomotive) can be placed on the same farm and be a working train that can help with facility work.

If you only want to use 2 locomotives that are the same speed. Place each one on a different farm.

If you have 2 of the same speed locomotive on the same farm , the 2nd one becomes decoration and does not help with Facility work or bring you any products..
You can have up to a total of 15 working trains altogether!
Trains do not have to be placed on the train tracks!
Coin cars are just for decoration! You can add them to your working train if you wish and they can be useful should you need your train to turn a corner on a farm. They do NOT count toward working facilities.

Working trains that help with Friends Facility Work:

To help with facility work, you need one of the locomotives in the picture at the top of this post. That locomotive must have at least one long car attached and it must be dispatched.
The Long Cars cost 35 Farm Cash each. Each different long car attached to one locomotive (up to 10) will add to the amount of facilities the mayor will work as you go to every farm.

Each Long car attached to a locomotive must be different from the other Long Cars attached to that locomotive.

Never attach 2 of the same Long Cars on any one locomotive as the second one will not count towards facility work and will not bring you products as it behaves as just decoration.
For the mayor to work every farm you go to.....
Out of the 19 different long cars there, chose 10 of them and attach them to just one locomotive.
For the Mayor to work every farm without you needing to go each farm.....
You need a 2nd locomotive and again, out of the 19 different long cars there are, chose 10 of them and attach them to the other locomotive. They do not have to be the exact same ones you picked for your first locomotive.
The 2 locomotives with the 10 long cars attached to them MUST be dispatched.
To use the NEW Do both at once, work factories and refer clients link in Facility Wall Requests, you need 4 Locomotives with 10 different long cars in each of them and they need to be dispatched.

Remember you can NOT have 2 of the same speed locomotive on the same farm.

Order of buying Locomotives:

The First Locomotive you you buy does NOT have to be bought in speed order. You can go straight to buying the fastest one first if you wish.

After that you must own one of each speed locomotive before you can buy a second locomotive that's the same speed, and those DO have to be bought in speed order.

For example if the first locomotive you bought was the fastest one, the Turbo Freight Locomotive, you could NOT then go straight to buying a 2nd Turbo Freight Locomotive.

You would need to also own:
1 x Standard Locomotive

1 x Enhanced Locomotive

1 x Enhanced Locomotive

1 x Supreme Locomotive

1 x Ultimate Locomotive

as well as the Turbo Freight Locomotive.

THEN when you own all of those you can buy a SECOND set of Locomotives, BUT those MUST be bought in order:

Own 2 x Standard Locomotives before you can buy the 2nd Enhanced Freight Locomotive.
Then buy the 2nd Supreme Freight Locomotive
Then buy the 2nd Ultimate Freight Locomotive
and then you can buy the 2nd Turbo Freight Locomotive!

Issues with connecting locomotives and their long cars:

When altering trains:

You can only move a working locomotive and it's long cars when it has returned from it's trip and has been unloaded.
ALWAYS use the yellow hand in the toolbox when connecting locomotives with long cars attached or use the Move command when clicking on on a locomotive or long car. The freestyle designer hands can cause them to overlap which can prevent them being correctly connected.
When you have finished moving a train EVEN IF the highlight looks correct when you mouse over the locomotive, BEFORE YOU DISPATCH IT, always open the locomotive and look in the Freight Cars section for all the long cars you attached to the locomotive. Only the long cars that are correctly connected will not be greyed out. Any greyed out are either not on that train or not correctly connected.

Important: Train locomotives and long cars count towards your facility limit per farm!
If you have a lot of facilities on a farm you may need to put them on a farm with less facilities or on a farm without facilities on it, whichever you prefer.
Count one for each locomotive and one for each Long car.
The Facility Limit is between 350 and 400 per farm. However, that amount can also be affected by how much production you have in those facilities that have not been stored.
If you see a message telling you that you have too many facilities on a farm, the first thing we suggest is to store all production from those facilities then refresh farm and see if the message goes away.
If it does then do not add any more facilities to that farm and remember to store regularly.
If the too many facilities message returns, store all production and move some facilities to another farm.

To be able to help with any problems with your trains, we will need your User ID or farm link and which train on which farm has the problem along with what the problem is so we can take a look at them.
Instructions on how to get your USER ID or farm link can be found by clicking on this link:
https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?t=662838

This thread is for players to report problems only. Any off topic posts will be removed by a moderator without notice to the user.

For suggestions for Trains please post in Freight Trains and Cargo Ships

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