Thread:Mhommer/@comment-15636815-20150306074106/@comment-5275054-20150310205637

I can't take credit for the idea, someone edited the set page once upon a time to add them and I liked the concept, tweaked it and we are where we are. The ultimate goal is to make the pages more readable and convey information quicker. The resource icons for the trainset pages do a better job than the cargo icon of getting the reader the most information in a single glance. With the cargo icon they will know it is resources but will still have to read which type of resource. Conversely since they are looking at a page of wagon, seeing the icon will immediately tell them what the wagon is used for.

For the passengers, we are actually using the generic icon rather than the blue person silhouette which is what the game uses in the store to sort down to just passenger wagons. It works but breaks convention when you have a dual use wagon (Pass & Mail).