planetmaker opened the ticket and wrote:

Following the discussion yesterday on IRC: The attached image (prepared by DJNekkid) shows that the graphics for the wagons following the engine in the "double train" consists are unintentionally different from how they are for the 2nd vehicle (1st wagon) in the consist.

There are two solutions so far, to levy this problem:
a) use and allow only one wagonID with refit capability. Then the position in the train wrt engines can be determined unambigeously. But that is then a pain for the player who wants to build a train with all three, mail, passenger and valuable cars.
b) Remove the special graphics which depend on the adjacency to the engine.

Both is IMO not very satisfying.

Thus I propose to implement some way to allow assessment of a vehicles position in a consist relative to others and getting information on them.

I've no good proposal for a solution of that now, though :-(
It could either be a new variable, as my simple initial view then would be or seemingly vehicle classes:
[22:11] hm... seems like I have the choice between "make mixing mail/pax/valuables painful for the player" and "make graphics such that gfx don'd depend upon distance from engine"
[22:12] The only other way would be to implement a system to traverse the consist but I don't think thats a good idea. So basically yeah, pain or simple.
[22:12] the second other way would be to implement vehicle classes, like house classes
[22:13] uh-oh. Both doesn't sound like a light-weight operation
[22:14] You have a major class and then ids belonging to a class?
[22:15] Lakie: e.g. house var 44

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Reported version: trunk
Operating system: All

This issue was imported from FlySpray: https://bugs.openttd.org/task/3151