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I posted a few new images on my website at http://www.stevedunham.50megs.com/bc_msts_pix.html. Please pardon the low-res images from my computer.

I'm building north and west from Elizabethport and...

Using the latest version from a fresh installation worked. I had tried the upgrade button within OR but all I got was a "Dirty Update" folder.

Thanks.

When I try to add content (MSTS routes) for OR 1.1.1.3487, I get this message:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.… Object reference not set to an instance of an...

Please see RFP3fix.zip in the file library for a few textures, a path, a service, and a replacement list of required trains.

There should be a new dkred.ace in the Snow and Night folders too. I'm attaching the night texture. Unzip it to your Night textures folder and remove "night" from the file name. You can take the one...

No, Ged, I don't mind! Thanks for uploading it. I'll have to check my other old textures and make sure they are at least 16 x 16. The 8 x 8 textures work in Train Simulator, so I didn't encounter the...

As to whether old activities will work: probably not. I relaid all the track except the Metro shops, I think. Even if the configuration is the same, I probably disrupted the paths.

Does the RFP...

I replied to Denis's PM. I thought return loops were prohibited, so I interrupted them with dummy tracks. I overlooked the need to access the powerplant sidings. :-(

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...