Merch trains driver driving from the wagons?
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Yes, it's unusual to go full distance but trains can certainly be pushed rather than pulled. Might have been better to model a loco at each end though just for show.
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This is for simpler gameplay I would say. If you need to consider the locomotive movement, you have to make a u-turn line / spur line which makes it difficult to build.
I did notice this when I was building but at the same time being a railway signaller myself I did not consider it overly strange.
[off-topic] It is quite often the case that a train with 'a loco each end' is actually a push-pull loco at one end and a slave driving cab at the other [/off-topic]
I agree that a loco each end would make things more realistic or the alternative is to do what Transport Tycoon did and simply switch the graphic when a train changed direction.
[off-topic] It is quite often the case that a train with 'a loco each end' is actually a push-pull loco at one end and a slave driving cab at the other [/off-topic]
I agree that a loco each end would make things more realistic or the alternative is to do what Transport Tycoon did and simply switch the graphic when a train changed direction.
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Real trains do do this, but the type of train pictured isn't really suitable for it (the driver can't see where he's going).
My guess is they probably use the same logic that the Passenger trains use but because they have graphic of a train at each end, it doesn't look odd. They could just add a locomotive at each end, or just have the engine appear at the other end like some transport games do.
They should put a control car at the other end, rather than a locomotive.