Don't think it's currently possible (I may be wrong). Would be a nice feature though.

I too want such a built in feature to disable vanilla trains. :)

I was able to do so by editing the game files. I do get a warning every time I launch the game stating that it couldn't load the vanilla trains, but just click ok and the game launches fine.

Then when starting a game, make sure to actually select mods you want to play with, or the game will crash when opening the trains shop. Also not sure if this will work for already existing games.

You can find the train file in a path similar to this: steam/steamapps/common/nimbyrails/resources/trains, just empty the mod.txt file.

Whenever W&W edits this file it will get installed again, so you'll have to delete again at that point.

And then feel free to request such a feature to be supported by the game. :D

Originally posted by TKR:

You can find the train file in a path similar to this: steam/steamapps/common/nimbyrails/resources/trains, just empty the mod.txt file.

Thanks TKR, already found the directory myself but didn't change anything yet. Just clearing the mods.txt file without any critical errors looks like to be a easy mod. Thanks for sharing your experience.

edit: Just to empty mods.txt doesn't work for existing savegames. The vanilla trains keep listed, just their names geht replaced with their "placeholders" as the data is missing.

Does anyone know if the savegame files can be "easily" modified (they are binary and not text based) to try to remove vanilla trains there?

Btw. TKR, it's your mods which I'm using as I'm situated near D-A-CH-FL, thank you very much for these efforts too.

Originally posted by Seraphin:

Does anyone know if the savegame files can be "easily" modified (they are binary and not text based) to try to remove vanilla trains there?

Ooh, that might work, will have a play with reading them in python today and feedback to you!

welp, it doesn't accept UTF-8 as an encoding, so I'm struggling to decode it :-)

I found a solution to disable the vanilla trains in an existing save. :)

I'll release a mod for it.

Here you go :)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2529404665

@TKR it doesn't actually matter if you don't backup the default mod.txt because you can also always use steam to redownload the game files again! (may have to delete the empty mod.txt first for it to work, though i dont think so)

Originally posted by mathstrains19:

@TKR it doesn't actually matter if you don't backup the default mod.txt because you can also always use steam to redownload the game files again! (may have to delete the empty mod.txt first for it to work, though i dont think so)

ah cool, didn't know :)

(the way to do that is to Verify Game Files, and of course having changed the contents of mod.txt it will see that is not correct and will fix it!)

Originally posted by TKR:

Here you go :)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2529404665

Great, thanks!