It is easy to set up the Town Visitors for a Train Derby Task ahead of time:
Serve all the visitors until they are in the final store but do not release (send to train station) them.
Handle all the townies in your Town Hall.
The Town Hall tabs are
Idle | Waiting | Serving | Ready | Leaving |
If you have townies under the Idle tab, click on them and send them to a store they still want to visit (click on the townie - see visitor - store)
The Idle tab should be empty at this point. Next step is the Waiting tab. Click the townies - see visitor - which leads you to the store the townie is waiting in. Serve the townie and you will see the other townies waiting at this store, if any. Serve them all. Should you not be able to serve that first townie, click on his face and that brings you to the other townies waiting in that store. When done with one store, click on the Town Hall and select the next townie under the 'waiting' tab.
At this point all your townies should be under the Serving tab. They will automatically move to the Ready tab when they are done in that store. If they want to go to an additional store, you can find them under the Idle tab.
The Leaving tab shows you the townies at the station waiting for a train to the next farm or to go home. This can be helpful if another farmer is looking for a certain townie to pick up.
The big train, the Eggspress will bring up to 14 townies with some wanting to be served in 3 stores.
The personal train should be upgraded so it can pick up 10 townies from your neighbors' towns.
When the Town Hall is fully upgraded, it can hold 42 townies. So you can set up 42 fully served townies under the ready tab.
Of course you still want to play the town even after this setup. If not needed for a derby task, send 10 townies to the train station, so you can pick up 10 with your personal train. Send 14 townies to the station before the Eggspress arrives. Then repeat by starting at the Idle tab.
If you cannot serve a townie, either click the call for help button or click the train icon to send them to the station.
Go one step further:
Keep a list of the stores
click on the Serving tab and pick the first shop, the General Store - See visitor - count how many townies would still fit in, if any. Go back to the Town Hall, scroll down to the next store, Cinema - click on a townie being served there - see visitor - count the empty slots. and so on. This gives you a list of the townies you want to pick up with your personal train.
