[ivanjermakov]

> mostly manually operating them

You mean without using schedules at all? Crazy. I believe there is an in-game tutorial on basic train automation.

[mft_]

Yes. It would occasionally work once or twice, then stop. Just wasn't reliable. I have no idea what I was doing wrong, but:

1) I've installed -> played -> struggled with trains -> gave up and uninstalled the game about four times now.

2) The last time I tried every setup and combination I could think of, and also every tutorial, forum post, and Youtube video I could find, to no avail.

[ivanjermakov]

Not sure what version you played, but since 1.0 the game is very explicit about why train is not moving (no fuel, no path, destination full, depart condition is false).