New Release -- June 1st, 2012

[Farmer Homer]

I just sent the flour, corn flour and coffee car on its way. If I'm right, what I see the advantage of this is I can get the above products without having to plant, harvest and mill wheat, corn or coffee. I also don't have to have the required facilities on a farm, I can keep one in storage and save space. I hope they add sugar to this car, it would be nice to take a few of the sugar factories off my farms and not have to plant sugar cane constantly.

[vicki kneese]

Originally Posted by Bonnie Jo

I had to refresh my farm to make them unlock.

ok i will try that thanks

[Debbie_T]

This might help:

Farmtown players:

8. Freight Trains: It can bring you high demand products from outside markets to use in your facilities.

Currently there are one Standard Freight Locomotive and 6 Freight Cars. The regular freight cars are just decoration items and don't provide any functionality. The Long Freight Cars are the ones who can be dispatched with a train to bring you products across all the markets. To check the products and quantity that each Long Freight Car can carry, click the help button in the Store.

To prepare your train for dispatch you need to have at least one Long Freight Car coupled to the Freight Locomotive. Place the Long Freight Car right behind the Locomotive without any space between them. If you mouse over the Locomotive all Freight Cars (including short and long cars) correctly coupled together will be highlighted.

To manage your train click 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 appear disabled.

To dispatch your train click the 'Dispatch Train' button. Only the Freight Cars correctly coupled to your train will be dispatched to carry goods. Once you dispatch a train it will be locked and will appear semi-transparent in your farm until it returns. The Standard Freight Locomotive completes the trip across all markets in 7 days.

To check the progress of your train click on the 'Train Status' tab. You'll 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.

As soon as the train visits all the markets and returns to your farm, you can click the 'Unload Train' button to move all products to your Storage. At this point your train will be fully visible again so you can add or remove cars for the next dispatch.

Currently, only one Locomotive across all your farms can be carrying products at any given time. In other words, you can build several trains but you can't dispatch one until the other one returns.

Currently, only one Long Freight Car of each type per train can be carrying products. That is to say, you can have all 3 Long Freight Cars coupled to a train (the Container, the One-Door and the Two-Door cars) and they will all carry products, but if you purchase another Long Freight Car and couple it to that train it will not carry any additional products at this time.

The products that each Freight Car carries will cost you coins and 420 fuel.

Once you purchase any Long Freight Car you can move it to any other farm, the facility requirement in the Store is only needed at purchase time.

9. Cashew Tree and Lemongrass Crop: To be used in the Thai Restaurant.

10. Plant Milk Factory (coins), Thai Restaurant (coins), Board Games Factory (FC), Nursing Home (FC) (Coming Next Week).

Farm 15 and new levels coming in the next release.

Enjoy!

--Raul

[maprewitt]

So far I've figured that you have to buy the cars on the farms where the facility required is. after purchased you can move it to any farm. I do agree that the products listed are not the ones I run out of either!! I need the metals!!! But does this mean that the products listed are in addition to the products pending in the facility itself???

[maggiel29]

I think I am going to sleep on this one - I cant buy the Long one -door box car because I dont have the stone windmill on my current farm (6 most of the facilities) - no its on Farm 1 - and I cant move it because I have entered the best farm comp - and I cant put the freight train on there for the same reason.
Also I dont want to move it - it looks great on my Kentish Hop Farm! i dont really want to buy another either! Ditto the oil refinery on another farm. Hey maybe you could give us an "inert" stone windmill that isnt a facility???
But I relish the challenge devs - and I am going to enjoy working this out. Can see now why the new Facs are best left for a few days to let us all get used to this and see if there are any probs. Thanks for all your hard work.

[WilliamV]

Can anyone who has bought the Long 2 Door Freight cars confirm the quantity that they will receive when the train returns.

[topmop]

Originally Posted by WilliamV

Can anyone who has bought the Long 2 Door Freight cars confirm the quantity that they will receive when the train returns.

It says 7224 units.

[WilliamV]

Originally Posted by topmop

It says 7224 units.

That works out to 1680 x 4 Pigments, 336 Cardstock & 168 Paper Rolls. All this after 7 days. The quantities are far too low to meet requirements. Also all the items available are from Coin facilities (I think), nothing from FC Facilities.

[Bonnie Jo]

Mine now says 139 markets to go. They have picked up 48 (long one door box car) 51 (long 2 door box car) and 40 (long container) products.

[Farmer_Susan]

Originally Posted by Bonnie Jo

Mine now says 139 markets to go. They have picked up 48 (long one door box car) 51 (long 2 door box car) and 40 (long container) products.

But what in the world does that mean? At first, I thought "outside markets" meant our neighbors - like it was an automated way to work our neighbors' facilities. But that doesn't seem to be it.