Adding Cars and Trains

There are several ways to add rolling stock to a layout:

• Choose New Locomotive from the Train menu.  This creates a new train consisting of a single steam locomotive, and deposits it in an arbitrary location on the layout (actually, it goes on the first track laid when the layout was drawn).  To move the new train to a different location, you can drive it there, or use the Place Train Here command.
   
• Choose New Train  from the Train menu.  This is the same as New Locomotive, except that the loco is followed by a tender, boxcar, and caboose.

If you are going to create more than one train at a time, move each one away from its starting position before adding another.  Otherwise, they will land on the same track and obscure each other.

• Choose Add Car from the Train menu, or from the train/car context menu you get when you right-click a car in a train window.  Choose a car type from the submenu.  A car of the chosen type is added or inserted just behind the selected car.  If there is no selected car, the new car goes at the end of the train.

• Click a car type from the Train Cars drop-down on the toolbar. This works the same as Add Car from the menu.
   
• To choose a car type other than the standard dozen, choose Other....  This brings up the Car Collections dialog, described elsewhere in this chapter.
   
• Right-click a track section and choose Add Car Here.  This deposits a car of the selected type at the indicated point on the track, creating a new one-car train there.  Subsequent Add Car commands will append cars to it. 
   

• Copy and paste.  To copy a car to the clipboard, right-click it and choose Copy.  You can then select another train (or a different spot in the same train) and choose Paste to deposit the copied car.

You can paste either a car or a train to a specific point on the track.  Right-click the track and choose Paste Here.