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Thank you, Ged and Jon. I hope you will be available for testing in a few years. I'm just starting to extend the Blue Comet Lines.

About the rolling stock folders: I tried to make sure that all...

Apology accepted, as Darth Vader said. ;-)

The asv file had the same date and time as the act file. I couldn't figure out how to open the asv file to check it.

I had checked the service file in...

Some people got an error in MSTS_ActMan v3.6:

Activity : AmtkAutoTrainN
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Missing Path File : DC-Richmond_trk3.pat
Service File : Amtk67S.srv
Line Number : 7 - PathID...

RFP3, February 2021
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac route for MSTS & OR
The CSX RF&P line from Richmond to Washington, plus a little Norfolk Southern track and about 13 miles of Metro. The new...

The end of February, I hope. I had asked for beta testing results by the end of January, but one more tester volunteered then, so I am waiting for any more reports. It's been a few weeks, though,...

Thank you. I fixed the sd file, changed the black texture to 16 x 16 pixels instead of 8 x 8 (I'd been using it for 9 years!) and fixed two untextured surfaces. The Sketchup Train Simulator plugin...

I made this model particularly for Todd, who is working on a C&NW route. It continually failed to load until I discovered that the clockface wasn't perfectly square. I fixed that and made a new ace,...

Some tiles had a water height of 4m on one edge and 0 on the other. OR apparently rendered them as 4m throughout. I changed the water level height to 0 on all four corners, and the flood abated. Low...

The Potomac is flooding over the George Washington Parkway in Open Rails but not in Train Simulator. There's a thread about this very flood in the Open Rails forum on this site:...

I wasn't aware of this till today when I got a report from a beta tester of RFP3. My old computer tends to crash with Open Rails, but I was able to run an activity in OR far enough to see the Great...

Nine people kindly volunteered. I guess that should be enough to catch all my mistakes. :-)

Thanks to you all.

The expanded and improved Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac route is ready for beta testing.

A discussion of the route is in another thread at...

I have two more demands! ;-)

In working on RF&P (CSX) activities, I found that there seem to be no available Virginia Railway Express cars appropriate to 2002. Engines, yes: F40 and RP39. But not...

Eolesen wrote, "I suspect that comment about XP was in jest."

Oh. Some young adults can't remember Sep. 11, 2001, and XP is from that era.

Don't make fun of us old people! ;-)

Thank you all.

32-bit XP is an operating system. It was current around when Train Simulator came out (2001). I like it better than the newer versions of Windows, but it can't handle a modern...

I wanted to finish extending the RF&P to Richmond using the program I know and love and hate, MSTS Route Editor, and I'm almost done. TSRE is recommended, so I decided to give it a try.

When I...

Brama said, "my virtual world demands only a modest amount of stuff." My demand list would include the original Metroliners. Just kidding about demands, and I've wished for the Metroliners before. My...

I ran into the same problem three and a half years ago. I posted the question on railroad.net and got an answer to use Firefox or Edge. https://railroad.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=165178 Firefox...

Thanks, Don. I guess I got a different view of the Auto Train terminal because I was usually passing it in rush hour (and for much of the year in the dark). Auto Train usually wasn't there when I...

Hey, Don. You said that the scenic detail improvements are done, sort of. What else did you want improved? Maybe I can make some further improvements. By the way, some of the screen shots on my...

I thought about including Broad Street Station too, even though it would be an anachronism, because it was the Science Museum by 2002, when the route is set.

Thanks for the compliments. I'm not going to extend the route to Main Street Station. I thought about it, but it would be five or six miles of urban scenery for not much action, and Main Street...

Fred, screen shots are on my website at http://www.stevedunham.50megs.com/rfp_msts_pix.html.

Thanks, Chris. That's exactly what I was hoping for. I wanted to include some prominent landmarks so that some of the locations look a bit like the real thing. When I made the first version of the...

I've finished track and most of the scenery as far south as Glen Allen. About 10 miles to go, then interactive objects, activity creation, and beta testing; I will probably finish it this coming...