ONR by Paul Charland

[Don6218]

Hello, just got through running a couple of passenger train activities, and they worked great.
Now I went to run another and this is how the Activity TR-152 Started:

The train moved, the RS unit moved forward, but then coupled to the two F-Units! And OR said there was "No Cab-View" available. The cab view is correct and in place, any suggestions? I am sure that even ONR did not use three units on a two-three-car train! :-)
Log file shows nothing related to this situation. I will try the next activity and see what happens. Thank you for any help on this.

[charland]

Well, it did work when I created it! I'll have to figure this one out or just rewrite it. Might take a day or two.

Paul :-)

[charland]

Hi Don,

If you still have the MSTS editor, open the activity and change the player train back to ONR_TR_152. Somewhere along the line I must have changed it to Train 46 and it screwed it up.

Paul :-)

[Don6218]

Hi Don,

If you still have the MSTS editor, open the activity and change the player train back to ONR_TR_152. Somewhere along the line I must have changed it to Train 46 and it screwed it up.

Paul :-)

OK, I do not use any MSTS stuff, I have TSRE5 Editors in place and this is occurring:

I moved the offending RS unit #1301 out of the way, but the two F-Units do not show up, even though they are listed in the Consist they do not show up. BTW, this is the latest TSRE5. Funny about that, and when I tried Auto-Pilot, the two f-units just progress through the switches to the station without picking up the Passenger Cars.
Great Route! I always look forward to your stuff, Routes and/or Rolling Stock.

[charland]

No, the activity should start with one F, a combine and coach at the station. I'll have to post the act file.

Paul :-)

[charland]

OK, here's a new act file for ONR_TR_152 but I had to zip it to be able to upload it. Unzip it, copy the act file, and replce the one in the ACTIVITIES folder... and have fun.

Paul :-)

[charland]

Don't download this Don, when I changed the player train it screwed up the times for station stops. I'll redo it tomorrow.

Paul :-)

[charland]

I just had a look through the North Bay yard on Google Earth. The image is from 2015 and there are no signs of any TEE Train car in the yard anywhere.

Paul :-)

[Don6218]

No, the activity should start with one F, a combine and coach at the station. I'll have to post the act file.

Paul :-)

Wow! I just figured that the passenger cars would have to be picked up and snaked in reverse through the yard to the station to start their journey. In Auto-Pilot the f-Units did that quite well, I thought! :-)
I will wait for the new-new Act File.
Thanks again.

[charland]

I did post it in the Ontario Northland thread in screenshots Don.

Paul :-)

[Don6218]

I did post it in the Ontario Northland thread in screenshots Don.

Paul :-)

Yes I got that Zip File, and ran it and all is good!
Thank you again for a Great Route and the great Engine/Rolling Stock Files!! Excellent! :-)

[charland]

You're wecome Don.

Paul :-)

[Don6218]

Hello Paul, just a note to ask about the Diesels for ONR. There does not seem to be any "High-Beam" for the headlamps on any of them, only the regular "Low-Beam". Is this something that was missed? Or am I missing something? They work just fine, hitting the "H" key once brings up the Low-Beam, hitting it again, which normally brings up the High-Beam shuts it off! This is happening on all of them, S units, F units and the Geeps.

[charland]

If you hit H you get the forward headlight, the cone of light faces forward. If you hit H again, you get the cone of light facing backwards. It's been like that for a years, is there something I'm missing?

Paul

[crstagg]

If you hit H you get the forward headlight, the cone of light faces forward. If you hit H again, you get the cone of light facing backwards. It's been like that for a years, is there something I'm missing?

Paul

Maybe it might be good idea to specify which ENG file each is referring to.
Which ENG are you referring to, Don?
I just downloaded ONR FP7Am Locomotive #1501.
Looking at the lights section in the ENG file for this locomotive I find the LightColour value to be ( ffffffff ) for both both Headlight ( 2 ) and Headlight ( 3 ) in both Top and Bottom sections. The example in the "Specifying Lights..." document in the MSTS TechDocs folder recommends a value of ( 80ffffff ) for LightColor when Headlight value is ( 2 ) which is the dim setting and ( ffffffff ) for Headlight ( 3 ) the bright setting. So if the light color is the same then that would be why you are seeing no change.

Also I find that the Azimuth values for Head light top and Head Light bottom to be the same for both Headlight ( 2 ) and Headlight ( 3 ) so there should not any difference where this light is pointed. Which ENG are you referring to Paul?