Please use the Route Specification Forum!

[ozace50]

The routes are visible on my computer. Last one was the Petit Arbre route in September 2005.

[SurvivorSean]

OK all is well now. My settings were only showing "1 month" to view. This is probably the issue somebody had up above too.

Thanks

Sean

[CWA13000]

I wish some would put more info in like for instance is it an automatic or manual. I hate those automatic switches.

Happy Rails To You

Wild Willy the Wacko

[tpilot]

Is there a template somewhere for what is supposed to be included.

All the entries have most of the same and some unique information.

It seems like a stickied post at the start of the forum saying "This is what you should include if known" would be helpful.

[charlie]

>Is there a template somewhere for what is supposed to be
>included.

For a long time, there was a locked sticky in that forum to do what you ask.

For some reason, it was dropped (un-stickied). It looked like this:

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/forumdi...fication-Forum

regards,
charlie

[tpilot]

That's what I needed, thanks!!!!

[saxmusickman]

Posting routes in progress could be a good thing, and it could be a bad thing. If people are just posting junk, then it's a bad thing. However, it could be used to give constructive input to route builders.

Myself, I prefer to keep my unfinished work off of Train-Sim. I want to share my route, but it's guaranteed to piss someone off, because i'm sure there is probablly some nit-picking problem that I have overlooked that is going to crash someones computer.

The alternative? Build your own website and post your route there, as I have done. With the appropriate warnings to give information about the unfinished (and possibly buggy) nature of the unfinished route, it will be up to the end user as to whether they want to download and risk running it. If a few people do download and run it, I can get constructive feedback, and possibly avoid major problems, before I post it to Train-Sim.

[robertreedy]

>Posting routes in progress could be a good thing, and it
>could be a bad thing. If people are just posting junk, then
>it's a bad thing. However, it could be used to give
>constructive input to route builders.

That was one of the items originally discussed and was finally decided to post only those that are available for download. Not sure a route is ever finished, but at least this way once it is available to all there is a central place for information.

RobertR
ADF-M&RM
Cascade & North Western at http://www.vcnwrr.com/

[saxmusickman]

>Not sure a route is ever finished

Now that is the understatement of the century!

Model railroads, whether they are real or virtual, are never finished. There is always something new or exciting to add, something you go over later and think that you could do better, something on the prototype that is built that you want to model, or, you just simply get tired of the route you are building and want to build another one, new and improved.

My model of the CSX Western and Atlantic subdivision will never be finished. At some point, i'll just have to take George Lucas's advice about works of art - it's never truly complete, you just have to abandon it to it's fate.

Oh, then as far as our present state of MSTS Routes are concerned, there is the 800 pound gorilla in the room - MSTS II. Will it or wont it make all of our current routes obsolete?