North Jersey Coast Line merged with New York - New Haven Line

[dphorton]

Works Great. Lots to look at. Going to try to make a Freight Scenario.

[Guest]

Hello,
I'm new to the forum,as I've just created my account.Unfortunatley,I still can't see the tunnels just outside of Grand Central,even if I tried a dozen times to reinstall the merge.The original New Haven map is working perfectly,so I don't think that is the problem.Can you somehow help me?

[OTTODAD]

Works Great. Lots to look at. Going to try to make a Freight Scenario.

You can replace my Freeroam player consists with whatever trains you like, place others and loose consists into various sidings and then have fun doing what you like with them !

[railfan101]

I know this is an old thread and I'm sorry, but I have spotted a minor problem regarding the merger route.

I am in the process of creating a scenario involving a run from New Haven to Long Branch (NJT leases equipment during football season from Long Branch for use for football games at metlife) and I have noticed leaving New Haven to Stamford, the HUD that shows how many miles to the next station stops counting at 38.90 miles

I'm running the scenario as i type so I don't know yet if it will start counting again, but this is weird as it's the only route I have that does this. Any suggestions?

[OTTODAD]

Hi Tom !

I am the creator of this merger !

You are talking about a Standard Scenario ?

I am only creating and running my pathed Freeroam scenarios and do not know much about Standard ones.

Created one to run from New Haven to Long Branch - Track 1 and the distance counter in the left part of the F4-Hud showing 125 miles counts down.

Where is there a next station distance counter showing in the Hud, unless you have created a next station stop in the Timetable ?

[railfan101]

I am replying on a computer that doesn't have TS2016 on it so no screenshot to highlight what I mean. But my scenario has 12 stops, stamford being first, calculated at about 39 miles away. When I leave New Haven, the counter stops counting at 38.9 miles, and restarts again when I reach 33.15 miles, then counts down normal. I didn't run the whole scenario to see if it springs up again at another point, but we'll see.

[OTTODAD]

Hi Tom !

Looks like another glitch which has not been reported by anybody before, doing what you have done with your scenario.

I prefer to consult a running scenario's #9-Map to see where my player is in the route !

Have fun, Otto.

P.S.: Tested a Stamford waypoint and it has made no differece.

What loco is your consist using ?

[railfan101]

I'm using the same loco you have in your screenshot. The ALP 45. It's strange to me this is the only route I've ever seen this in, and no where else.

[OTTODAD]

Tested another Standard consist in the basic DTG New Haven to Grand Central route and it does not have that problem.

Not important to me !

[OTTODAD]

Had nothing else to do and did one more test.

Cloned a Career scenario of the New Haven-Grand Central route, converted it to a Standard one, replaced its lead motor car with an ALP-45 diesel, changed the season, weather and time and this time it properly counted down the distances to the next stations.

https://youtu.be/9KRjzJYGPSw

Best viewed FULL screen and you can just about see it in the lower left of the Hud !

[railfan101]

I am redoing the activity i started tonight. We'll see what happens.

[railfan101]

Otto, i don't think this makes a difference but in the video you posted, your alp 45 is in diesel mode. Mine is in electric mode when I run it. Again, I don't think that makes any difference, but I'm going to redo the activity starting on a different track. We'll see what happens.

Also in my activity, every time I try to leave a station, I'm met with stop signals. Passing them doesn't do anything, mostly because I don't have any other consists in the route yet, but it's very annoying.

[OTTODAD]

Yes, Tom, creating and editing other than Freeraom scenarios is fraught with problems.

One of the routes I have recently worked on shows Stop at XXXX station in the running scenario's #9-Map and can not see how to edit it to do that in the Scenario editor and then perhaps have the Next Station mileage show in the F4-Hud as it does in many scenarios.

Perhaps having a merged Tracks.bin is the problem, not affecting running my clones Freeroam scenarios ?

Like I said, I prefer to do it my way !

Here is my clone of the running Semmering Bahn #9-Map with all its services and loose consists being active ! Stationary services are Players.

Have not yet started one of the many players available at Glognitz !

https://youtu.be/xrxqIZQ3VCk

Best viewed FULL screen.