Chapter 29 Freight Trains

[Rob T]

Sending Boosts for your own trains and Boosting other farmers trains is now done from within the Train Manager.
For information on the NEW Criteria and Method for Train Boosts and how to use Manage when you see it on a received train boost CLICK HERE (https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6542638#post6542638)



What are the freight trains?
How do i use the trains?
What can i get from the trains?
How do i collect produce delivered by the trains?
What are the benefits of Boosting Trains?
Can i have more than 1 train or car?
How does the train help with facility work?
How do i get my train to go round a corner?
What is the Train Manager?

As of September 2020, it is now possible for a Super Neighbour to Unload and Dispatch your trains and if you wish, boost your friends trains as well. For more information on this go to Chapter 06 Super Neighbours. (https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6548342#post6548342)



Should you need to get back to this post to look for other information:
Each post has a Table of Contents link bottom right of the post, which when you click, will bring you right back here.

[Rob T]

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/ALL Locomotives no times.PNG


Q: What are the freight trains?

A: There are 5 Freight trains, shown above. They are used to bring you high demand products from outside markets to use in your facilities. They can also help you work your friends facilites faster.

Some trains and cars, in the store, are purely for decoration. Decorative ones do not bring you any products and do not help with working your friends facilites.

All Trains are in the *Trains/Ships* section of the Store.

Important: Train locomotives and long cars count towards your facility limit per farm, so if you have a lot of facilities on a farm you may need to put them on a farm with less facilities or on a farm without facilities on it, whichever you prefer. Count one for each locomotive and one for each Long car. The Facility Limit is between 350 and 400 per farm. However, that amount can also be affected by how much production you have in those facilities that have not been stored. If you see a message telling you that you have too many facilities on a farm, the first thing we suggest is to store all production from those facilities then refresh farm and see if the message goes away. If it does then do not add any more facilities to that farm and remember to store regularly. If it comes back, store all production and move some facilities to another farm.



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How do i use the trains?

1. First you must purchase one of the Locomotives from the trains section of the store. If you can afford it you can buy the Enhanced Freight Locomotive which is quicker than the coin Standard Locomotive.


These are the 5 Locomotives along with the time that they take to make a trip and return home without Boosting them, also referred to as Accelerating a train, which will be explained in a post later in this Chapter.

The time the trains will take to make their journey were reduced by one day in March 2020. The new times are in the picture below.


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/ALL Locomotives 25MAR2020.png

When it comes to buying a faster locomotive than the Enhanced for your first set of working trains, you can not go straight to buying the fastest one which is the Turbo Locomotive. The locomotives must all be bought in order of speed before you can buy a faster one.

For Example if you owned one Standard Locomotive and tried to skip speeds to buy the Supreme Locomotive instead of the Enhanced you would see this warning letting you know that you don't own the Enhanced Locomotive yet.
ALWAYS check your farms, gift box and Item Storage before buying a Farm Cash Locomotive.
https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/BUY 1st Supreme Warning Popup 01 NOV 2022.png


2. Then you must purchase at least one of the following train cars - Cost 35 Farmcash Each


Long Bulkhead Car
Long Cattle Car
Long Container Car
Long Gondola Car
Long Hopper Car
Long Lumber Car
Long One-Door Boxcar
Long Refrigerated Car
Long Sliding-Door Car
Long Tank Car
Long Two-Door Boxcar
Long Well Car
Long Quarry Car
Long Tree Products Car
Long Crops Car
Long Flowers Car
Long Logs Car
Long Fish Car
Long Animal Products Car



To prepare your train for dispatch you need to have at least one Long Freight Car coupled to the Freight Locomotive.

http://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/toolbox/edit hand toolbox.PNG Using the Yellow Edit Hand in your tool box
Place the Long Freight Car right behind the BACK end of Locomotive (NOT the front) without any space between them. When you mouse over the Locomotive, All Freight Cars (including short and long cars) correctly coupled together will be highlighted. As shown in the image below.
NOTE: Connecting the engines and cars is much more successful if you do NOT use the Freestyle Farm Designers to connect them. The green and purple ones allow overlapping of items and this can cause a problem if you unintentionally do that with the trains and cars, as they can appear connected but may not be.


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/SFT with cars.jpg



With the faster locomotives it can sometime be difficult to know which end is the front or back of the locomotive. You need to attach the cars to the back of the locomotive. If you have problems with the train not connecting and the cars are all aligned it may be that the locomotive is just the wrong way around so try either :

rotating the engine 180 degrees so it faces the other way
OR leave it in the rotation it is in and just move the engine to the other end of the cars

With the cars it is not important which way around they are as long as they are connected.


This picture shows you which end of the locomotive to attach the cars to, indicated with the arrows. If you're not sure which orientation you picked just click on the locomotive and select "Rotate" from the menu and you will get the options again.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train orientation REAR indicated ARROWS forum size.png



3. To manage your train click on the Locomotive and select 'Show Train Details'. The Long Freight Cars that are correctly coupled to your Locomotive will be highlighted in white. The ones that you don't own or that are not correctly coupled will be dimmed out.

The example below shows 5 correctly coupled freight cars, and 3 that are either not connected correctly or not on that train. The scroll bar to the right lets you scroll through the list.

The list also shows you how many coins each car will cost when dispatched on that particular train, how many markets it will go to and how long that will take without boosting the train. The costs, amount of markets and times vary depending on which locomotive is on the train.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Enhanced Freight Cars example.png



4. To dispatch your train click the 'Dispatch Train' button. Only the Long Cars correctly coupled to your train will be dispatched to carry goods.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Dispatch Train button.JPG

When you Dispatch your train you will see a brief feedback in white lettering telling you of the coins and fuel spent. This is an example of the notification. Your coin and fuel amounts may be different depending on which locomotive is on the train and how many Long Cars are on the train.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train dispatched notification Turbo all cars March 2020.png


Once you dispatch a train it will be locked and will appear semi-transparent in your farm until it returns. You can NOT move the train or any of it's cars while it is dispatched.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Transparent Dispatched Train.jpg


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/preferences icon .PNGThere is a preference option to disable the transparency of the trains. Click on the Preferences Icon top right of your game screen and remove the check mark for Transparent Dispatched Train. You can enable and disable this any time you wish.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/PREF transparent train AUG 2020.PNG



The Requirement to buy the 2nd set of working trains is that you must own ALL of the 1st set of locomotives. Then you can buy the second set in order of speed.

For the 2nd set of trains you would start with owning 2 Enhanced Locomotives before you could buy the Supreme Locomotive for both trains. Then once you own 2 Supremes you can buy the Ultimate's and so on.

Just like the first set of Locomotives had to be bought in speed order you can not go straight to buying the fastest one for your second working train which is the Turbo Locomotive. The locomotives must all be bought in order of speed.

For Example if you owned one of all of the Locomotives, then tried to go straight to buying a 2nd Turbo Locomotive you would see a warning like this letting you know that you need to own 2nd Ultimate Locomotives before you can buy the 2nd Turbo. Similar popups will show according to what you already own, when you don't own the previous speed locomotives required to buy a faster Locomotive.
https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/BUY 2nd Turbo Warning Popup 01 NOV 2022.png



IMPORTANT: If you are not going to use the slower trains when you have purchased faster ones Do NOT sell any of them! The game needs to see which trains you own in order for you to buy the faster trains or a second set. ALWAYS check your farms, gift box and Item Storage before buying any Farm Cash Locomotive.


You can have a total of 10 trains dispatched at any given time, two with Standard Locomotives, two with new Enhanced Locomotives, two with Supreme Freight Locomotives, two with Ultimate Freight Locomotives, and two with Turbo Freight Locomotives.

Once you own 2 of each speed locomotive, remember that you can ONLY dispatch 2 of each speed locomotive. If you were to buy more than 2 of any speed train, only 2 of the same speed can be dispatched to bring you products.


There is now a Train Manager (https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6349330#post6349330) tool in your Toolbox, which allows you to unload, dispatch and boost all of your trains on all of your farms from any of your farms. You can also Boost (Accelerate) your friends trains from there. Full details about it are explained later in this Chapter.




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What can i get from the trains?

The cost and the fuel used for each of the Long Cars attached to each of the locomotives differs depending on the locomotive on the train.

To give you an idea, we just listing the range of costs of dispatching the cheapest and the most expensive Long Cars.

The Long Animal Products car can range from 18,048 to 22,560 coins.
The Long Quarry car can range between 21,142,656 and 26,428,320 coins.


For more details on the costs you can check this for yourself, per train, once you have a train on your farm and have correctly connected at least one Long Car to it. That information is in the Freight Cars section. Any cars not attached to the train are greyed out but you should still be able to make out the container names and coin amounts should you want to check the cost before you purchase a different Long Car for that train. Remember the cost will be different for each car depending on which locomotive is being used.

The Fuel needed to dispatch each train ranges between 288 and 360 Fuel PER Long Car on the train.

As of March 2020 you can earn a Mayor Bonus to increase the products a train will bring IF when unloading a train, you have at least 3 trains with 10 long freight cars on each of them, that are dispatched or ready to unload. You will earn an extra bonus of 80% of the products delivered by that train. When you earn the Mayor Bonus it will apply to any of your trains, not just those with 10 long freight cars. The Mayor Bonus is explained in more detail in the Train Manager post later in this Chapter.




The following amounts are what a Long Car will bring WITHOUT the Mayor Bonus:


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Bulkhead Car.jpg Long Bulkhead Car


4320 x Copper Sheet
8640 x Stainless Steel Sheet
8640 x Aluminum Sheet
3600 x Carbon Steel Sheet
3600 x Brass Sheet
2880 x Fiberglass Sheet
1440 x Plywood Sheet




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Cattle Car.jpg Long Cattle Car


65 x Cows
65 x Goats
65 x Hens
65 x Turkeys
65 x Horses




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Container Car.jpg Long Container Car


7200 x Plastic Granules
3240 x Rubber Sheets
9000 x Flat Glass Sheets
1800 x Mirror Glass Sheets
7500 x Polyester Fibre
360 x Nylon Roll




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Gondola Car.jpg Long Gondola Car


7560 x Sugar
8400 x Honey Jar
4200 x Beeswax
1080 x Yellow Mustard




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Hopper Car.jpg Long Hopper Car


16920 x Pile of Silver Nuggets
6480 x Pile of Gold Nuggets
7200 x Pile of Raw Diamonds
24000 x Salt
7920 x Clay Block
53280 x Quartz Rock
9360 x Soda Crystals




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Lumber Car.jpg Long Lumber Car


4320 x Pine Lumber Pile
4320 x Oak Lumber Pile
4320 x Maple Lumber Pile
2160 x Ebony Lumber Pile
2160 x Teak Lumber Pile




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long One Door Boxcar.jpg Long One-Door Boxcar


10800 x Flour
1800 x Corn Flour
5760 x Ground Coffee
2400 x Chili Powder




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Refridgerated Car.jpg Long Refrigerated Car


3600 x Cheese
3000 x Vanilla Ice Cream
2160 x Shrimp Container
1440 x Scallop Container
1440 x Oyster Container
7200 x Pearl Oyster Container
1440 x Bacon
3000 x Tomato Juice
3000 x Lemon Juice




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Sliding Door Car.jpg Long Sliding-Door Car


1800 x Cotton Textile Roll
2340 x Sheep Textile Roll
2340 x Llama Textile Roll
2340 x Silk Textile Roll
2160 x Canvas Textile Roll
2340 x Polyester Textile Roll
1620 x Felt Roll
720 x Velvet Textile Roll
3600 x Linen Yarn
7200 x Linen Rope




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Tank Car.jpg Long Tank Car


960 x Crude Oil Barrels
780 x Petrochemical Barrels
10080 x Red Ink
10080 x Yellow Ink
10080 x Blue Ink
10080 x Black Ink
3000 x FarmTown Beer
3600 x Cola
3150 x Apple Cider Vinegar




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Two Door Boxcar.jpg Two-Door Boxcar


7200 x Orange Pigment
7200 x Beige Pigment
7200 x Black Pigment
7200 x Red Pigment
2160 x Card stock
2520x Paper Roll




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Well Car.jpg Long Well Car


2700 x Bread
9000 x Burger Bread
1320 x Cinnamon Bundle
3600 x Olive Oil
14400 x Chocolate Liquor




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Quarry Car.jpg Long Quarry Car


491400 x Iron Ore
245700 x Copper Ore
48240 x Chromite Ore
21600 x Graphite Ore
554400 x Aluminum Ore
64800 x Zinc Ore
9360 x Kaolin Clay Rock
216000 x Limestone Rock
5040 x Amber Rock
5040 x Turquoise Rock
8640 x Marble Rock
1350 x Tin Ore




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Fruits Car.jpg Long Tree Products Car


1358 x Peaches
2038 x Walnuts
1697 x Oranges
1697 x Apples
1697 x Lemons
2038 x Olives
1019 x Mangoes
1019 x Cherries
1358 x Bananas
2038 x Silk Worms
2038 x Latex
2038 x Cork
2038 x Arabic Gum




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long Crops Car.jpg Long Crops Car


1528 x Wheat
1528 x Tomatoes
1019 x Cotton
1528 x Rice
1019 x Corn
1019 x Onions
2038 x Soybean
1019 x Sunflowers
2038 x Flax
2038 x Sugarcane




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/long flowers car.JPG Long Flowers Car


1528 x Glads
1528 x Tulips
1528 x Purple Orchid
1528 x Violets
1528 x Iris
1528 x Yellow Lilies
1528 x Marigold
1528 x Rose
1528 x Pink Rose
1528 x White Rose




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/Tiger/Long logs car.jpg Long Logs Car


2340 x Bamboo log pile
1170 x Cinnamon log pile
1170 x Cedar log pile
2340 x Pine log pile
2340 x Oak log pile
2340 x Maple log pile
2340 x Ebony log pile
2340 x Teak log pile




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Long fish car.JPG Long Fish Car


137 x Salmon
87 x Tuna
87 x Lobster
87 Squid
87 x Cod
87 x Grouper
2340 x Crab
4680 x Catfish
4680 x Tilapia
2340 x Octopus




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Long animal products car.JPG Long Animal Products Car


208 x Cow milk
145 x Hen Eggs
145 x Turkey Feathers
208 x Horsehair
104 x Sheep wool
104 x Llama wool
104 x White Rabbit Fleece





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[Rob T]

How do i collect produce delivered by the trains?

A: To check the progress of your train click on the 'Train Status' tab.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train Status Tab.jpg


For each car you will see how many units are being carried and how many are pending to load. The progress bar indicates the progress of the train across all the markets. The scroll bar to the right allows you to scroll through the list.

The Train Status section of each train is the only place you can check the amount of products your train is carrying at any given time. This can also be accessed via the Train Manager.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train Status Train Progress.png


As soon as the train has visited all the markets and returns to your farm, the Unload Train button in the Train Status section will no longer be greyed out and will be blue. Then you can click the 'Unload Train' button to move all products to your Storage.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train Status Unload Train.png


It's at this point, when the train is unloaded and BEFORE you dispatch the train, that you can add, remove any cars on the train, or move the train and or cars to another location or farm.
Remember if you make alterations to your trains you need to check that all the cars are connected correctly before you dispatch it again.




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/show times toolbox.PNG Another way to check how long until your trains are back and ready to be dispatched is to use the "Show Times" Tool in the Toolbox.

Click on the Tool and the click on the "Trains" tab. It will show you all your trains and which farms they are on.

If there is a green check mark, that train has returned home and is ready for you to unload it and dispatch it again.

If there is a time showing, that is how long until it returns home. If you hover over the time and the train can still be boosted, it will tell you that.



There is now a Train Manager (https://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6349330#post6349330) in your Toolbox, which allows you to unload, dispatch and boost all of your trains on all of your farms from any of your farms. You can also Boost (Accelerate) your friends trains from there. Full details about it are explained later in this Chapter.




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What are the benefits of Boosting Trains?

The benefits for the train boost are as follows.


Each friend that Boosts your Train will advance your train by 2 hours.


The advance that your train receive in one trip from all your friends combined can not exceed a full 24 hour day. Although some trains will require more boosts than others the end result is still the same, when fully boosted. The amount of boosts needed to boost each train changed when the Train Manager was released, which will be explained later in this Chapter. The new boost amounts are as follows:


Standard Locomotive - 10 boosts
Enhanced Locomotive - 12 boosts
Supreme Locomotive - 12 boosts
Ultimate Locomotive - 13 boosts
Turbo Locomotive - 14 boosts



The benefits that friends receive by advancing your train are between 1% and 3% of all the products being carried by the train.




The Train Manager (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6349330#post6349330) is where you can manage all of your trains on all your farms from one place.

It is located in your Toolbox.

This allows you to unload, dispatch and boost all of your trains on all of your farms from any of your farms.

You can also Boost (Accelerate) your friends trains from there.




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Can i have more than 1 train or car?


Yes, you may have 2 of each of the Locomotives, making 10 trains in total.
However you can NOT have 2 of the same Locomotives on the same farm.

You can have 5 trains on a single farm at the same time as long as each of those trains has a different Locomotive.
The other set of trains would have to be on another farm.
You could have 1 train on 10 separate farms if you want.

IMPORTANT: ONLY 1 Long Car of each type per train!
If you wanted another of the same Long Cars you would have to put that on a different train that did not already have that Long Car on it. If you had 2 of the same Long Cars on one train the second one would be treated as a decoration, will not carry any products and will not count towards the criteria for trains helping with Facility Work.

You can put as many of the decorative coin cars on the trains as you want. These coin cars do NOT count towards Trains helping with Facility Work.

Trains helping with Facility Work is explained in How does the train help with facility work? (http://r1.slashkey.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5270134#post5270134) which is explained later in the next post.




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How does the train help with facility work?


Dispatched Trains with Long Cars attached to them, help you with your friends facility work.

How much of that work depends on how many trains you have with how many Long Cars attached to them.

The Trains and Long Cars need to be on a farm, not in storage, and they have to be dispatched.
If you unload them and forget to dispatch them again, your ability to be able to work friends facilities faster will be reduced again.

The Long Cars cost Farm Cash and only the Standard Locomotives cost coins.


Without the trains:

The Mayor will work 50% of your friends facilities for free, but you have to go to every farm and work every facility individually until the mayor takes over and does his 50%.


When you own at least one train with a Long Car attached and it's dispatched:

Each Long Car you have, on a dispatched train, the mayor will work another 5% of the facilities for you. Note: the Long Cars must be different ones. You can not have two of the same Long Car on the same train.


If you have 1 train dispatched with 10 Long Cars attached, the mayor will complete all the work on the farm you are on and you only have to go to each farm that has facilities on it.


If you have 2 trains dispatched with 10 Long Cars on each train the Mayor will complete all facilities on all farms for you without you needing to navigate to each farm.


Important: The coin train cars are decoration ONLY and do not count towards helping with your friends facility work.




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How do i get my train to go round a corner?

You can make your train to go round a corner by using one of the coin decorative cars that has 6 views.

This what we mean by 6 views. The top 2 pictures of coin cars have six ways those cars can be rotated. The bottom picture shows a car that can only be rotated in 2 ways:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/6 views example.png

The decorative coin cars that can be used in horizontal and vertical to make your train turn a corner are:


Container Car
One-Door Boxcar
Two-Door Boxcar
Sliding-Door Car
Refrigerated Car
Tank Car
Hopper Car
Well Car
Gondola Car
Lumber Car
Bulkhead Car
Cattle Car
Red Passenger Wagon
Green Passenger Wagon
Modern Passenger Wagon


Make sure you use the correct car depending on which way the train is turning, if one doesn't work, try the other one :)

The following decorative coin cars can NOT be used to make a train turn a corner as they don't have the correct rotations:

Loaded Hopper Car
Empty Hopper Car
Caboose
Circus Wagon


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/toolbox/edit hand toolbox.PNG Using the Yellow Edit Hand in your tool box, place that car ON the corner, and then add the Long Cars to either end, as the image shows below. You may have to experiment a little in placing the cars so as all the cars are on the tracks, but it can be done :)

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/Train round corner with hightlight.png


When you are done, make sure ALL the cars highlight by mousing over the engine.





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https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Train Manager toolbox.png

What is the Train Manager?
As of 24th July 2023 you now Boost friends trains from the Train Manager as well as sending out your own Train Boosts for your own Trains!


The Train Manager is located in your Tool box, released 18th March 2020.

It allows you to Unload, Dispatch and Boost all of your trains that have long cars attached, without needing to go to each of the farms where the trains are located.
It shows you information about each train like where each train is located, how many times it has been boosted and how long until it will return.
You can ONLY Boost (accelerate) your friends trains from here.


The amount of boosts needed to boost each train also changed when this was released. Although some will require more boosts than others the result is still the same. A train can only be boosted by 24 hours. This was unintentional but made it easier to implement. This may be changed again, in the future. The new boost amounts are as follows:

Standard Locomotive - 10 boosts
Enhanced Locomotive - 12 boosts
Supreme Locomotive - 12 boosts
Ultimate Locomotive - 13 boosts
Turbo Locomotive - 14 boosts


Trains carrying products still need to be placed on your farms. You still have to manually add long cars to them and ensure they are connected right if you make any alterations to them, before you dispatch them again. Remember, the 2 trains that help with facility work must have the 10 cars connected correctly and they must be dispatched for you to get that benefit.


IMPORTANT: If a locomotive is in your Item Storage instead of on a farm the game can NOT see which ones you own and it will not reflect that if you use the question mark in the store to query how many of which ones you already own. If you do not have all of the trains and may have upgraded the ones you are currently using the faster locomotives and then decide to add long cars to another locomotive, you will have to find where that locomotive is on your farm or in your Item Storage BEFORE you buy consider buying another locomotive.




How to use the Train Manager:

The Train Manager tool is in your Tool box in the far left column. The icon looks like this, if you mouseover the icon it will also tell you what it is:
https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Train Manager toolbox.png https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Train Manager toolbox hover.png

You can place the Train Manager in your game bar using Shortcuts, if you wish, to use it when you are at market or another persons farm.



Click on the Train Manager icon in the toolbox to open it a window will open called My Train Manager.

The Train Manager has 2 sections:


My Trains
Boost Others Trains



To manage your own Trains:

1. Make sure you are in the My Trains section. Here is an example of the My Trains section selected. If the tab is not orange, click on it to turn it orange.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/My Trains section.png

You will see all of your trains on all of your farms that have long cars attached to them.

It will not show you any trains that do not have long cars attached as they do not carry any products, so do not need to be unloaded, dispatched or boosted.


This is an example of what you could see, but it will be your trains on your farms:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/MY TRAIN MANAGER 04 AUG 2023.png


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/AZ arrow.png Top right of the window you will see an AZ icon which will allow you to change how you view your trains in the Train Manager. You can set it to:


By Farm: This lists your trains in Farm order
By Locomotive: This shows your trains by locomotive type.


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/AZ filters.png


For each train, in the Train Manager, you will be able to see the status of the train and how many times each of the trains was boosted.

Any trains that can not be boosted will have a greyed out Boost button.

If you mouseover each train in each box, if it can be boosted an Open button will appear. Example:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Enhanced Open 17 APR 2020.PNG

Clicking the Open button will give you access to the Freight Cars and Train Status Tabs so you can check the cost in coins for dispatching each of the Long Cars, what Long Cars are on your train and it's progress through the markets.




2. When a train has returned and is ready to unload you will see an Arrived message and a blue Unload button:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Standard Arrived Unload.png

When you click on Unload you will unload the train and your products will be sent to your Harvests & products section of Storage.

It's at this point, when the train is unloaded and BEFORE you dispatch the train, that you can add, remove any cars on the train, or move the train and or cars to another location or farm.
Remember if you make alterations to your trains you need to check that all the cars are connected correctly before you dispatch it again.

You will then see the train showing Idle and a blue Dispatch button.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Standard Idle Dispatch.png



3. When you are ready to Dispatch the train click the blue Dispatch button. Your train will be dispatched and it will show the time until the train is due to arrive back. You will see a brief notification in white lettering telling you the amount of coins and fuel spent.

You will then see that the train is dispatched and a blue Boost button.
If you do not see the boost button straight away, close and reopen the Train Manager.
If you have forgotten how many boosts you need to send per train, close and reopen the Train Manager and the Boost amounts will show on the newly dispatched train.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Standard Dispatched Boost.png https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Standard 7 days boost 0.png


4. To Boost the Train so it will bring the products back sooner, click on the Boost button. A new window will open and show you your Neighbours and your Buddies. The list will show their profile picture and their Facebook name. You may send one train boost to each person every 12 hours.
Example of what you could see:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/CHOOSE FARMERS TO SEND TRAIN BOOST TO FEB 2024.png

Red background means that farmer has set their Status as Unavailable. They may have done this for a short vacation. Mouseover their profile picture and it will show you how long they are unavailable for.
Blue background is your Neighbour.
Green Background is your Buddy.
As you mouseover all the pictures each background colour will change to pale yellow so it's easier for you to see who you are selecting if many have the same name or similar name.


The friends list can be filtered to show specific friends.
To change a filter, click on All Farmers and the options will drop down, then click on the option you want and only those friends meeting that criteria will show.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/WEB GUIDE/AZ FILTERS TRAINS REQUEST BOOST 23 MAY 2023.png

The Facebook Friends filter will ONLY show you Facebook friends that you had BEFORE Farm Town left Facebook not any changes you made to Facebook Friends after that date as long as you have not deleted them from that list. This filter is likely to be removed in the future.

Do NOT select farmers in one list and then switch to different list before Sending Boost Requests.

This works the same way as the Facebook version. It does not remember who was selected in a previous list, when you change the list without sending a Request the selected farmers revert to Unselected.

You are not likely to notice that this happens unless a farmer happens to meet the criteria for showing up in several different lists so that you can see them in more than one.

If you like to use several lists, please Send the Requests using one list BEFORE you change the list to a different filter.


The Search box at the top allows you to search for specific friends by typing in their First name or Avatar names.


The AZ Filter:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/GIFT MANAGER/FARMERS LISTS AZ OPTIONS 13 JULY 2023.png

Selected Stay in Place Using this filter means that when you select a farmer to send to they stay in the same position in the list.

Selected Move to Top Using this filter means that when you select a farmer, they then move to the top of the list, which can be useful if you want to check the list again before you send the gifts.

Selected Move to Bottom This setting is the Default Setting. Using this filter means that when you select a farmer, they then move to the bottom of the list.
This can be useful when you want to send gifts to all farmers or lot of farmers. When you click Select on the farmer top left of the list, that farmer moves down to the bottom of the list and the next farmer appears in it's place allowing you to continually Select farmers without scrolling until you have selected the maximum of 50 farmers.


Click on Select on each farmer you want to send a train boost to. The background of that farmer will turn PINK and the Select button will dim and Change to Unselect.

If you make a mistake and selected the wrong farmer Clicking on Unselect will remove that farmer and change the button back to Select.

At the bottom middle of that window as you Select friends the 0 changes and starts counting how many you selected. This helps you know how many boosts you are sending at that particular time.

The Unselect All button at the bottom, lets you Unselect all the farmers before you Send the Boosts if you think you made a a lot of mistakes and wanted to start over.


https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/SELECTED FARMERS TO SEND TRAIN BOOSTS TO FEB 2024.png

To Send the Requests click on the Send Request button at the bottom right of the window and that will send a train boost all the farmers you selected with ONE click :D



NOTE: You only need to send the amount of boosts showing on the train.

If you send boosts to more friends than a train needs, once the train is boosted to maximum the friends that try to accelerate it after that will either see an Expired popup.

If you have many trains you need to consider how many boosts you need to send out for all of your trains that day, as you can only send one boost per person every 12 hours. If later that day or the following day your train has still not been boosted to maximum, as long as the blue Boost button is not greyed out, you can boost it again.




https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/MAYOR BONUS RULES 04 AUG 2023.png Top right of the window there is a blue Mayor Bonus Rules button. If you click on it you will see a message from the Mayor about the requirements for receiving the Mayor Bonus. Clicking on Close closes that message.
https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Mayor Bonus Rules.png

When the background colour of a train is pink, this means that you do not have 3 trains (with at least 10 Long cars) in the dispatched or ready to unload state, that you need to be able to earn the Mayor Bonus.

In the example below you can see that only the Supreme is dispatched, the Ultimate is ready to unload and the rest all have a pink background. They are unloaded but not dispatched. So there are only 2 trains showing in the dispatched or ready to unload state (Ultimate and Supreme) that meet the criteria for earning the Mayor Bonus. The others are Idle so don't count.

If you were to unload the Ultimate in the example, without dispatching another train with at least 10 long cars on it first , which would get you back up to 3 trains that are in the dispatched or ready to unload state, you will NOT get the Mayor bonus.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/MB trains pink.PNG


If you did try to Unload the Ultimate while the other trains are pink you will also see a warning popup which tells you what you need to do to be able to earn the Mayor Bonus. Example:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/MB loss warning.PNG

If you ignore the message and click the green check mark to proceed, you will unload the train without earning the Mayor Bonus.

To earn the Mayor Bonus, click the red cross to clear the popup message, then dispatch another train that has at least 10 long cars on it. One with a pink background. When you have dispatched enough trains to meet the criteria to earn the Mayor Bonus, all the trains pink backgrounds will change back to white and THEN you can unload the Ultimate to get the Mayor Bonus.

This example shows that the Turbo has been dispatched, so now there are 3 trains meeting the criteria to earn the Mayor Bonus (Turbo, Ultimate and Supreme), so the Ultimate can now be unloaded and will earn the bonus:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/MB pink cleared.PNG





To Boost your friends Trains:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Train Manager toolbox 13.png When you have trains from friends to boost there will be a number on the Train Manager icon in the Tool box.

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Toolbox 13.PNG There will also be a number on the Tool Box. However this number may differ as it can include the ships your friends have sent to your port for you to load and any Neighbour or Buddy Requests you have received.

The counter is updated approximately every 10 minutes as you work your farms.


Open the Train Manager and click on the Boost Others Trains tab to turn it orange. Here's an example of the tab selected:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/Boost Others Trains.png

If there are any trains for you to boost they will show in this section.
There will be the profile picture of the friend, if they have one.
Their first name or avatar name will also be showing in the text next to their picture.
Underneath their picture will be a blue button to indicate if they are a friend (non-neighbour), neighbour or Non-Friend. Those blue buttons can be clicked on to visit that farmers farms:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/TM BOOSTS EXAMPLES 14 SEPT 2021.PNG

Notes:

The Non-Friend will show if the train boost was sent before the friend connection was broken as normally you would only receive train boosts from friends or it can happen if there is an issue retrieving that information from Facebook.
If there is an issue retrieving your friends names from Facebook, the first names can also change to avatar names and the blue button for Neighbours may also change to just Friend.
If you have more trains to boost than can show at one time there will be a scroll bar to the right you can use to get to the other ones below.
Any train that can be boosted with have a blue Boost button in the box.




1. Click the Boost button to accelerate the Train and the button will grey out like this:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/TM BOOST SINGLE 14 SEPT 2021.PNGhttps://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/TM BOOST SINGLE GREYED 14 SEPT 2021.PNG


2. Your reward will briefly show in white lettering. Example:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/TM BOOST PRODUCTS EARNED 14 SEPT 2021.PNG


3. And the Boost button will then grey out for that train:

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/BOT boost greyed.PNG


4. When you close the Train Manager the boosted trains will clear from that section.

You should only be seeing Trains that can be boosted in the Train Manager, however some users send out too many boosts at one time so it's possible to occasionally get one that in there that can not be boosted. When that happens and you click Boost you will not get any products as the train could not be boosted and you will see a popup like this :

https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/TM request expired.PNG



https://r1.slashkey.com/images/gameguide/trains/TM/show times toolbox.PNG If you have placed locomotives on farms that are not currently not carrying products and have forgotten which farms you placed them on and need to find them. Instead of searching every farm, you can use the Show Times Tool in the Toolbox. That will tell you where they all are and it's another way to check how long until your trains are back and ready to be unloaded and then dispatched again.




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