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the function ctrl click already exists and is mentioned in FF somewhere,
but can there be a tooltip somewhere stating you can use CTRL + click on the rails to generate a temporary waypoint? I had at least 6 players asking me how did you send a train to yourself! (temporary waypoints).

It is explained in the first mini-tutorial for trains on the experimental 0.18 branch. All the mini-tutorials have seen some improvement.

I had no idea this feature existed. I don't think enough players do the mini-tutorials to rely on it, besides even if you could assume every player did them there should still probably be some indicator in normal gameplay (not that I'm inventive enough to think of a sleek way to indicate that. Perhaps something in the train GUI near/associated with the "view on map" button?).

I would add this kind of stuff in "Tips and Tricks". Maybe the Tips and Tricks could get some love … but then again, it is probably too late to get those polished up for 1.0 …

No excuses that this is missing in some kind of Intro, but also the setup explains everything. Normally a player first thing to look about and change keys to preferred setup. In this case the best way to learn keyboard shortcuts.