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boleyd
05-28-2008, 03:05 PM
Not sure if this is the proper forum --- Can someone point me to the instructions to make use of the animated container crane. My searches have not revealed anything and I do not see an RS Dev Doc title that seems relevant.
Basherz
05-28-2008, 04:11 PM
Basically you park your truck "centrally" under the hoist and press "T". (you must be stopped). So for every truck in the consist, the same.
boleyd
05-28-2008, 04:36 PM
In real-life does the crane or the train move the next car under the hoist???

Thanks for the info. I must not have been centered on the hoist. Positioned it, the train and all is well. The ideal would be an AI train with a long consist moving beneath the hoist and an auto-hoist function initiated. The the AI train moves one car forward and repeats. Maybe the next patch!
Again-thanks...
Basherz
05-28-2008, 04:52 PM
Don't rule that possibility out, as the general "Loading and Un-loading pain-in-the-ass" that it is at present, especially for US consists, will hopefully be addressed.
ENTrainman
05-28-2008, 09:52 PM
its funny because you think it is a pain in the ass right now, well realistically they can only lift 1 at a time , so in theory it should take you 2 times as long to load this way. Rememebr people get paid to do this 24/7 in real life.... so if you want it to be accurate, it is going to take some time to load a railcar.

Yes realistically that one does move... but at the same time, it isnt that fast either.. what they have done is try to make a compromise between realism and functionality.
Basherz
05-29-2008, 05:34 AM
its funny because you think it is a pain in the ass right now, well realistically they can only lift 1 at a time , so in theory it should take you 2 times as long to load this way. Rememebr people get paid to do this 24/7 in real life.... so if you want it to be accurate, it is going to take some time to load a railcar.

Yes realistically that one does move... but at the same time, it isnt that fast either.. what they have done is try to make a compromise between realism and functionality.

I personally, wouldn't dissagree with you as it is fairly obvious that a fairly long rake of 40+ cars would take around 2+hrs to assemble! I think the thread in question referred to the loading and unloading of coal.