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Today,
02:03 AM
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Packerland Project
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Try to contain your enthusiasm... You almost have to do that periodically, otherwise you burn out. ~5 miles of track today was painful,...
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Yesterday,
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Time to dump some ballast.... Sturgeon is where the two ore lines come within sight distance of each other, just east of Vulcan.
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Yesterday,
08:44 PM
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Technically, it's still just a GE-only simulator... ;)
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Yesterday,
01:24 PM
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Some Questions Regarding Green Boxes On Tracks & Yellow Lines Above Tracks
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Nope, no longer available from Abacus. I confirmed with them that they've stopped selling the Vone e-book along with TSM and all other train-sim...
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Yesterday,
09:55 AM
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Some Questions Regarding Green Boxes On Tracks & Yellow Lines Above Tracks
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Can you share a screenshot? Green boxes typically belong to forest objects. Green pyramids with green lines are platform markers. Yellow...
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Yesterday,
09:49 AM
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Reverse Loops & Ovals... Is This STILL a NO NO???
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Can't show a screenshot at present -- both routes with these are in-progress for updates, and the signals long removed. At about 1/3rd of the...
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05-21-2013,
11:29 PM
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The inspiration for Unstoppable to be broken up.
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Not a whole lot more detail in the article. It is currently (as of the article) on its way to Huntington, West Virginia, dead in tow. That's...
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05-21-2013,
06:54 PM
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Reverse Loops & Ovals... Is This STILL a NO NO???
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MSTS Route Design
Good point, Jean. The loops I've done have different entry/exit turnouts, therefore resulting in several intervening nodes...
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05-21-2013,
05:07 PM
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Packerland Project
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No, this project is not yet dead, contrary to the lack of updates... ;) Those of you who have followed my projects probably know by now I cycle in...
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05-21-2013,
03:50 PM
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Dedicated Train Simulator Room Advice
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General
Are you planning to use a projector or a flat screen? For that large of a space, a projector viewed thru faux window frames might be quite cool... ...
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05-20-2013,
09:18 PM
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Amtrak ACS-64
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Items Wanted
OK, y'all got your wish. Follow it here....
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05-19-2013,
10:29 PM
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Reverse Loops & Ovals... Is This STILL a NO NO???
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MSTS Route Design
I've done a couple reversing loops. For activities to work, I put two sets of signals between the start and exit. Those get buried out of view.
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05-19-2013,
05:49 PM
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Amtrak ACS-64
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Items Wanted
Why would you expect SLI to do electrics?
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05-18-2013,
02:41 PM
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MSTS ground textures wont display correctly.
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Microsoft Train Simulator
The typical tech at Best Buy should be limited to giving advice on what size batteries to put in a flashlight, if that. It has nothing to do with...
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29 replies | 563 view(s)
05-18-2013,
02:33 PM
eolesen
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Solar panels on Ballast cars
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MSTS Locomotive Design
It's to keep up the batteries for the on-board electronics and actuators for the dump doors. Here's how Herzog describes their system (which I'm...
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3 replies | 167 view(s)
05-17-2013,
10:51 PM
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" x_1600 Glitch"
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Open Rails Discussion
What route and what tile? I believe there were some changes done to alpha-sorting over the past few months to deal with transparent passenger views,...
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05-17-2013,
05:08 PM
eolesen
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MSTS ground textures wont display correctly.
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Microsoft Train Simulator
No need for BIN -- none of the DLL's or EXE's are going to be used by ORTS. Basic install gives you all the default content, as well as the RE &...
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05-17-2013,
02:25 PM
eolesen
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MSTS ground textures wont display correctly.
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Microsoft Train Simulator
The limiting factor on your PC looks like it will be the power supply. You've only got 300W in the Gateway to play with, and that will rule out a...
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05-17-2013,
12:04 PM
eolesen
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MSTS ground textures wont display correctly.
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Microsoft Train Simulator
If you haven't established a logfile path in the registry, it should be writing out the log to your desktop. Logs are pretty specific when they...
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05-16-2013,
11:01 PM
eolesen
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MSTS ground textures wont display correctly.
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Microsoft Train Simulator
This is a known bug with the Intel integrated HD graphics card and Win7 or higher... No known fix for MSTS, so try Open Rails...
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05-16-2013,
10:10 AM
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No Horn Grade Crossings
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Microsoft Train Simulator
When you think about it, there's not much need for the signage when you're in a closed system. In the US, you won't typically have a foreign road...
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05-15-2013,
06:49 PM
eolesen
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No Horn Grade Crossings
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Microsoft Train Simulator
With all due respect to our friends in Canada, that's in Canada, where international signs have been in use far longer than in the States... As a...
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05-15-2013,
06:33 PM
eolesen
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Need Mike Simpson's contact emil address
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Microsoft Train Simulator
Had you explained the problem, instead of trying to find a way to contact the developer directly, you would have had an answer ten hours ago...
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05-15-2013,
03:12 PM
eolesen
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No Horn Grade Crossings
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Microsoft Train Simulator
I've always seen quiet zones marked in the timetable. X = at grade crossing, W = whistle (YMMV) From 1971: From present day:
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05-15-2013,
10:14 AM
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Need Mike Simpson's contact emil address
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Microsoft Train Simulator
Try PM'ing him here -- it looks like he's still checking in a couple times a week, but probably over on the Railworks forums. He hasn't been using...
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