Freight Car

Freight Cars are a type of vehicle that can be attached to Electric Locomotives or another Freight Car to form a train. They have a capacity of 32 item slots or 1,600 m for fluids and allow for the transportation of resources over Railways. Freight Cars can be loaded and unloaded via Freight Platforms or Fluid Freight Platforms.

Appearance

 * If at least one item is loaded, a freight container will be shown. Items can be either loaded manually or with Freight Platforms.
 * If any fluid is loaded, a fluid tank will be shown. Fluids can be only loaded with Fluid Freight Platforms. Much like Pipeline networks, a single Freight Car can only carry one type of fluid at a time.
 * When carrying fluids, a flush option will appear similar to Pipelines. Flushing a fluid tank will remove all the fluid from the car, and the tank.
 * Only the selected car will be flushed. Other cars in the train and any Fluid Freight Platform will be unaffected.
 * A single Freight Car cannot carry fluid and items simultaneously.
 * If nothing is loaded, only the undercarriage is shown.
 * Whether a container is present or not doesn't affect the weight of the train.

Trivia

 * During the unloading animation, the crane at the (Fluid) Freight Platform will grab the container (tank) from the Freight Car and then drop at the cargo of the Freight Platform.
 * If the Freight Platform does not have enough free space to load/unload all items, a different animation will be played:
 * When unloading a Freight Car, the container/tank will be hoisted above the Freight Platform cargo. Its door is opened from below with its contents dropped into the Platform cargo. It will then be placed back onto the Freight Car undercarriage.
 * When loading a Freight Car, the Freight Platform crane will pick up the cargo of the platform, hoist it above the Freight Car and load it similarly.
 * If an engineer is standing on the undercarriage and loads an item, the freight container will spawn and instantly kill the engineer. If a Freight Platform loads a container over an engineer, the engineer will die the same way. However, engineers can ride the container when it's being unloaded.

History

 * Patch 0.3.7
 * Attempt at reducing Freight Car update costs
 * Fixed tick type for Freight Cars
 * Patch 0.3.4.14
 * Trains and Freight Cars now snap better to each other at track intersections and turnouts
 * Fluid Freight Cars now display the proper capacity of the buildings in their description
 * Increased storage capacity for Fluid Freight Cars, from 500 to 1600 m
 * Patch 0.3.2.0 Fluid Freight Cars now have proper fluid UI
 * Patch 0.3.1.1 Fluid Freight Cars can now handle 500 m of fluid instead of 50 m
 * Patch 0.3: Now supports fluid containers and allows fluids to be transported
 * Patch 0.1.16: Are now unlockable in game

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