Unloading pulpwood racks and woodchip hoppers.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

I've been checking out Tori's new COARW beta 5, with the huge Westvaco paper mill in Covington, Va.
There is a miriad of tracks running all over the mill's grounds.

Obviously, it processes pulpwood and woodchips, besides needing fuel, coal, oil, lime and chemicals.

Since I have never played the game of loading and unloading car-by-car, these are pretty much noob questions. But valid nevertheless, for Tori's route is great.

Are there unloaders for the wood product cars and cars with animated loaded and unloaded states?
How in the sim is pulpwood unloaded in the first place? Just magically dumped from the racks? Or are there animated unloaders available to a least give the impression?

I suppose with the woodchips we just have to pretend they are dumped through the bottom into a pit between the rails, much like mineral cars. Dust flying would be a nice touch.

[MadMike1024]

It's not prototypical, as most chip cars are vacuum unloaded, but there is a bottom dump unloader (for grain I think) that has dust and particle animation.

The pulpwood unloader has an animated fork lift that lifts the entire load at once and then vanishes it on the dock (the forklift must have been made on Superman's planet!).

There is also a mod of the container lift that unloads logs loaded lengthwise of the car.

[Toripony]

I'll have to check... I think I have a dump style unloader but forgot to install one there at the mill. In the 60's-70's this is the method that was used here, but the hopper was extra tall with 3 chutes on the bottom.

I have not seen the pulpwood loader/unloader forklift myself. Is that here in the RWA library?

[MadMike1024]

I'll have to check... I think I have a dump style unloader but forgot to install one there at the mill. In the 60's-70's this is the method that was used here, but the hopper was extra tall with 3 chutes on the bottom.

I have not seen the pulpwood loader/unloader forklift myself. Is that here in the RWA library?

If the load on a car is removable, the forklift dock will unload it. Loading the same item would require an edit to the .bin to point to the correct load model.

[OldProf]

There's a beta 5? Where? (He asked, pulling his head out of the sand momentarily.)

[OldProf]

It's not prototypical, as most chip cars are vacuum unloaded, but there is a bottom dump unloader (for grain I think) that has dust and particle animation.

The pulpwood unloader has an animated fork lift that lifts the entire load at once and then vanishes it on the dock (the forklift must have been made on Superman's planet!).

There is also a mod of the container lift that unloads logs loaded lengthwise of the car.

Those forklift loaders can be made somewhat more believable using the same trick as with container loaders: carefully note where the load is picked up from and dropped off at; then place a static load there in the scenario editor. Positioning is tricky and may require several attempts. This does not solve the fact the the docks themselves are often too short, leaving part of the load hanging over the edge.

[buzz456]

There's a beta 5? Where? (He asked, pulling his head out of the sand momentarily.)

http://www.coarw.com/