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Love it! Or perhaps backdate it by about 15,000 years to have some Really Big Lakes (during the last Ice Age).

EDIT: reminded myself that there are three MSTS/(usable in OR) routes that reach...

The 3DTS Tehachapi route and, IIRC, the Cajon Pass 4.x route (the update with the full Mojave-Palmdale-Colton line), have a spur for the Trona line that is long enough to place a train on for...

Interesting concept. However, BNSF's freight locomotives have a 70mph speed limit. Amtrak needs to run at 90 in a few places to maintain schedule. ?? Have you re-geared the locomotives? Are the Santa...

crstagg & lonewolf: be aware that downloads from the Wayback Machine usually fail. In the case of Siskiyou, that appears to be true for all of them.

eolson: I agree. Dale may have been a little...

Echoing and emphasizing Derek. NEVER NEVER get drivers from anyplace other than the manufacturer. There are rare occasions when drivers from Microsoft might work, but even there expect them to be out...

Thanks! Sounds slightly easier than I thought. Now if I could get the Track Viewer in ORTS to work for me (path editing doesn't always work as expected - must read the docs more).

One of the activities that comes with Surfliner 2.x is an Amtrak from SLO to LA. The train schedule calls for it to depart SLO shortly after the activity starts, next stop Grover Beach. Once clear of...

Thanks. That's what I get for not scrolling through the whole thing...:(

Perry: more on the landslide:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/Shasta/30410135-048_caption.html
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-shasta/hummocks-indicate-large-eruption-shasta

The main...

For the one who wants Redding ... there's a little route in the f/l that is a short run through Redding itself - just north of the river to about Anderson. Old, but very highly detailed for its time....

Thanks for the explanations! Yes, Shasta is imposing. Perhaps I was remembering it from another angle, such as along I-5 near/north of Weed, since I used that route more often than 97. And the...

>>Renzenberger not Ratzenberger<< Thanks! I was channeling what some of my friends (who worked for SP) used to call them ...

Here are the US rules for blowing the horn: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/part-222

And just for fun, here are the specifications for the horns themselves, and test methods:...

I get the feeling that the search was for freeware. The 3DTrains Coaster/Metrolink/Amtrak stock are not freeware (though the sets are quite reasonably priced). If you buy one, Marc provides a...

Have seen some random complaints at Tom's Hardware about the new Zen3 Ryzens with the stock cooler having temperature problems, even at stock clock speeds. You might want to invest in a more robust...

My only nitpick is that, in the pics, Shasta looks just too big. That could be an artifact of the cropping (telephoto effect). And the mountain *is* imposing. But actual photos I've seen (and having...

I'd go a step farther and get a USB BD drive. Even BD/DVD/CD writers are still available that plug into USB2 ports. Got one last year, for a very reasonable price (actually, less than one that goes...

Officially, MSTS was unsupported by any version of Windows past XP, and I'm not sure if they even officially supported it in XP. Mainly, MSTS was written for Win98, where there was little real...

This should be expected. If the default activities were built using timings based on default stock and MSTS, which is likely, then they will not work right in OR which uses different (more realistic)...

Have you trolled through trainsimulations' web site? They have a lot of stuff that could be used on Horseshoe Curve (presume you're looking at the Horseshoe curve route or possibly the PRR-ER Eastern...

The high-quality Surfliner, Metrolink, and Coaster trainsets, as noted, are available from 3DTrains. There are Bombardier cars painted for Metrolink of lesser quality, F59 and F59PHi locomotives (and...

The standard version of ORTS requires .Net.

[EDITING: for some reason, I got an odd version of a message I responded to.]

With ORTS, I would recommend getting the stable version first. It's...

In most of the external views, you can "zoom" in and out, at least to a limited degree, with the Page Up and Page Down keys. I haven't used it, but I think there's a capability to build cameras at...

What I see is that everybody wants 2-factor authentication if the site has even remotely sensitive information. It's near-universal if money is involved, as with banks, stocks, credit cards. I...

Good point. Check your spam and trash email folders. Also, if you (like me, for one email account) have another redirection along the line, you may have to check the scanner for THAT email as well....