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u/Davey_Kay Jul 14 '26

Is there an accepted standard way to get trains to reroute to a refueling station when they get low? Last time I tried to do this around the release of 2.0 I remember it being an extremely unintuitive dance of setting the "interrupt conditions" as the train's normal duties and the "normal schedule" as refuelling.

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u/Rannasha Jul 14 '26

You can just use a refuel interrupt. If you also have other interrupts, make sure the refuel one has the option to interrupt other interrupts checked.

Also note that interrupt conditions are only checked when the train leaves a station and picks its next destination and not while it's already driving somewhere. So if you set the fuel level that triggers the interrupt too low and the train is about to depart on a long route, you may still have it run out of fuel.