I'm playing my first game with Pak 128 just to start getting the hang of building stuff and routing things. I'm doing a random map with all options at default and the year is 1930.

I have a coal power station with 3 coal mines around. I built a rail station at the mine with 4 tiles with the coal loading station. I built a second one at the coal power station. that's 4 tiles with the coal loading station. I built a train depot near the mine with a one tile extension. I connected the rail stations. I built a train with a steam engine and 11 bulk wagons that showed a size of 4 tiles matching my station lengths. I scheduled the train to go first to the mine to load up 100% and then to the coal power station to unload. When I run the clock the train goes to the mine and loads up to it's capacity and then tells me it can't find a route. I thought that it would reverse course between stations. I tried adding a loop around the station connecting to the track heading to the power station but it wouldn't find a route no matter how much clock I ran.

I went back to the save multiple times rebuilding everything from scratch trying to add track loops around each station to ensure it could travel one way without turning around at each one but my train always goes to the first stop and loads up before it says it has no route. Even one-way block signals didn't help.

Definitely frustrating that I can't seem to get a simple single track train to run from mine to power station. I did the schedule correctly and the train started off just fine before giving me a very disappointing result. I never had trouble like this in any other game starting off with something simple.