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I use Maggs Re-rail portal along with pguy's Portal Timetable rule for interchanges. It will emit a string of cars at the time you want without an engine. They appear on the interchange track, that piece of track on which both railroads have joint rights. I then pick them up with my switcher. Dropping off cars is a bit of fun because you have to drop kick them into the interchange track (portal) or you will loose your engine. I find if I get up to a speed of 20mph pushing the string of cars, uncouple the engine and cut the throttle, the cars roll into the interchange track and I reverse and go back to the yard. This allows more than one interchange operation per session - like one in the morning and one in late afternoon. One could also use AI to bring the foreign road train onto the route and do the drop-off and pick-up, but I have had problems with that in the past. I think once you start to use portals, you will find there are many possibilities. Do you have any grade crossings with other railroads? This always makes for an interesting operations feature. There is a diamond crossing rule that takes care of the signaling. My road has 9 grade crossings with foreign roads, all of them with active cross traffic.

Your cattle question...the reason you can't send your AI driver to the packing plants is the way the layout is setup for the Class 1 trains that are running. If you look at the layout in Surveyor you will see that there are direction arrows

Thank for advice. For those interested, I downloaded "Copy Commands From" and "Schedule Library" from the Download Station into TRS2009.

There is also a limit to the number of threads that can be run in a scenario which I believe is 64. I have found ways to increase the number of trains that can be run within this limitation and can explain them to you if you ever reach the limit.

Try the Portal Timetable Rule found on the DLS. http://www.openspeedway.net/files/pics/ptr.jpg You can set which portal you want it to come out of with "Emitting Portal You can set what time it comes out with "Add New Timetable" You can set what train comes out with "Add an existing saved consist" You can select a driver with "Add Driver to Consist" You can use the command bar to add and save commands for the AI to follow. To add another train just click on the "I" box at the bottom.

You'll need to be a bit cunning with this one. I'd go with something like this in your Scenario thread... Scenario OnAnnouncement Make_AI_Train AddTrainToRoute My_AI_Train And then in the PlayerTrain thread you'd need something like this... PlayerTrain OnTrackMark TrackMark_X Announce Make_AI_Train So when the PlayerTrain hits TrackMark_X the Scenario thread will see the announcement and add My_AI_Train to the route. Make sure that you're not going to hold up absolutely everything in the Scenario thread though.