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Today, 10:33 AM

scottb613 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Thanks Eric - hah - more confusion in the mix. Yeah - I started a new flat route just to experiment with the track shapes - man - there are so many...

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Today, 09:27 AM

rdayt replied to a thread New to this in General

MSTS routes and content will only work with MSTS or OpenRails. OpenRails is free and may work on your laptop. Doesn't cost anything to find out....

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Today, 09:09 AM

pnrailway replied to a thread NWL 7 Project in Open Rails Screen Shots

Roy, I too would love to take a look at the route. It looks wonderful.

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Today, 09:00 AM

geepster775 replied to a thread Path Confusion !? in Open Rails Discussion

Use of reverse points for shunting is an MSTS limitation thing. It should not be an Open Rails thing. In open rails, going into manual mode and...

3 replies | 141 view(s)

Today, 08:44 AM

ebnertra000 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

That's supposed to be the style of ties, _c being concrete ties. Most of the sets I've seen, though, just have that odd texture on what looks like...

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Today, 08:40 AM

jonpd replied to a thread How To Change AI Traffic Consists? in Open Rails Discussion

OK basically you first need to create new services. A service = consist + path. Your new services for the traffic would use the same path as the old...

4 replies | 174 view(s)

Today, 08:21 AM

scottb613 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Hi Folks, Another Scale Rail question: What's the difference between the "c" and "w" tracks - is it simply the "c" has the dirty texture. So I...

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Today, 08:18 AM

jonpd replied to a thread Which European- Route should I start with in Open Rails Discussion

Yes that was my main problem, having to rename all the .act, .srv, etc. files. I ended up writing a little command line script to do it. I think I...

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Today, 07:14 AM

superheatedsteam replied to a thread Steady burning end of train light? in Microsoft Train Simulator

I'll second that.

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Yesterday, 11:33 PM

jiggywatt replied to a thread Surfliner Ultimate Pack - Beta (Testers Needed) in Open Rails Route Projects and Questions

Ran 566 today and ran into a bottleneck at MP 258 after slowing down for a train ahead. About 6.6 miles From Old Town station with a Coaster and two...

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Yesterday, 11:29 PM

Vince replied to a thread Path Confusion !? in Open Rails Discussion

(good advice above post) Depends on how the activity author set it up either with or without using reverse points. Yes, there are activities setup...

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Yesterday, 11:27 PM

motormaster532 replied to a thread Path Confusion !? in Open Rails Discussion

I believe what you are saying is that when you have to shunt on some Activities it is necessary to go to "Manuel". When you do this as you have...

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Yesterday, 11:21 PM

Vince replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

For red or blue orphan poles I use the TSRE Hack; Set cursor to 'stick to all'; Snap a small track section to the orphan poles; Press Z; ( In...

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Yesterday, 11:12 PM

Vince replied to a thread Steady burning end of train light? in Microsoft Train Simulator

Good to see you're still around Yuri! best regards,

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Yesterday, 10:41 PM

eolesen replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Let me know if you ever get red orphan poles. I wound up with a dozen or so. The hack won't work for those... removing them is pretty straight...

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Yesterday, 09:47 PM

MsSheare replied to a thread SD70ACe and SD70M-2 repaint project in MSTS Engine And Livery Skinning

you will get it just keep working on it. I hope to be back at working if I get done with the medical issue I suddenly got after being told years I...

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Yesterday, 09:24 PM

scottb613 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Hi Folks, Someone pointed me to Pete's great TSRE Manual for the fix to my orphaned Track Database entry I posted above. As per the Manual: ...

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Yesterday, 08:08 PM

Concby started a thread New to this in General

Does msts routes work with ts2021 looking for a foot ts to run on a laptop.

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Yesterday, 07:40 PM

steam4me replied to a thread Steady burning end of train light? in Microsoft Train Simulator

https://msts.steam4me.net/tutorials/add_lights.html for more detail.

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Yesterday, 05:40 PM

Ashraf Ahmed Khan replied to a thread Drag Coefficient ? in Open Rails Modeling and Physics

Thanks a lot, Sir. Reading all of it carefully.

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Yesterday, 05:28 PM

Rayuser replied to a thread Cannot get the 3DTrains Bombardier Cab Cars to work. in Microsoft Train Simulator

That works, they load in perfectly fine now. Thank you.:)

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Yesterday, 05:23 PM

R. Steele replied to a thread Drag Coefficient ? in Open Rails Modeling and Physics

For detailed answers and information regarding your questions please refer to the documentation included with FCalc2 >> "Methodology and Theory of...

2 replies | 52 view(s)

Yesterday, 05:20 PM

NorthernWarrior replied to a thread Armstrong Powerhouse class 411 in RW/TS2015-TS2020 General

Thanks for the link Jason, looks like they have done an excellent job as you say. Shame they didn't do a version of the original style with classic...

5 replies | 139 view(s)

Yesterday, 05:18 PM

rodrigoville replied to a thread Shapes to add people! in Open Rails Discussion

Thanks a lot... I found them!! They very acceptable for the route Regards Enviado desde mi SM-A720F mediante Tapatalk

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Yesterday, 05:04 PM

Ashraf Ahmed Khan started a thread Path Confusion !? in Open Rails Discussion

Greetings, All ! I have been playing many activities recently in Open Rails. I have some queries regarding the paths set up by act makers. In...

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Yesterday, 04:56 PM

Ashraf Ahmed Khan started a thread Drag Coefficient ? in Open Rails Modeling and Physics

I'm using FCalc for calculating accurate friction values for locomotives and coaches. I have two doubts :- 1. What will be the Drag Coefficient...

2 replies | 52 view(s)

Yesterday, 04:13 PM

marklester01 replied to a thread Frequency Curve & Volume Curve? in MSTS Sound Design

If I remember correctly The way I was taught, Volume Curve's like say the Audio's just a tad-bit lower than what it's suppose to be @ a certain...

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Yesterday, 04:09 PM

R. Steele replied to a thread Which European- Route should I start with in Open Rails Discussion

I can see the problem --- all the act, pat, srv, trf, and con files were named "off" to accommodate the "activity loader" they employed. So nothing...

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Yesterday, 04:01 PM

scottb613 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Hi Eric, Maybe I'm making a mistake - with WFH I attempted to replicate what I did when removing "Interactives" - actually I had "Remove Gantry"...

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Yesterday, 03:52 PM

scottb613 replied to a thread Out of my comfort zone - laying tracks. in MSTS Route Design

Hi Jon, Very cool - then you can tell I'm not a real programmer... :) Regards, Scott

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