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Yes, that is what the program is all about.  And when you build a train and include picups at a location or spur, the switch list that is printed will tell you what is at the location to be picked up. Concerning 0 cars found.  That is the most common error when starting out (at least for me too).  Yes, check that detailed report and it will give clues as to why cars were not added. Here are some common things to look for. 1. When you entered your cars (or just do a couple for a test start) there will have been a menu box for you to choose where the car is presently located.  That means you will have had to previously create a location and then create a track type (yard, spur, interchanged etc.) for that newly entered car to be residing on. 2. Now, the first location in any route that you create (for a tran to use later) must be the location at which the cars are residing.  The program cannot assign cars that are not there. 3. Similarly, when entering a car you will have had to designate its type.  Just ensure that when you are on the train panel that you have selected the buttons to have the train service that type of car.  At the beginning, just to get some success perhaps just have the train service every type of car in the system. 4. As there are several other buttons to allow specific train building, at the beginning just have the train service all roads, all years, all owners......all of the possibilitis by default.  Later on, you could specify a particular railroad type to draw from etc. In other words, often when you look at the detailed report it might indicate why a car you feel should have been added to the train was not.....note what is revealed about the car in that report and either go to the cars panel and change that car's details and any others that you also thought should have been automatically added to the train, or go to the trains panel and see that something was not included or excluded in the train build parameters.   After a bit of time this detective work will become second nature.
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