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Session for Port Ogden & Northern - Euro-style I have uploaded a session for Port Ogden & Northern that uses European rolling stock on a trip working on the north side of the route, between Armour and Sundermeyer.

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 so they keep to their tracks. What I did was save the layout under a different name and do away with the Class 1(remove the portals) and use the tracks for normal dual track setup. Remove the direction arrows and sort out the signals and you have a great railroad freight system that can run from one end of the layout to the other with a number of consists at the same time. I still keep an original version of the layout because I enjoy doing the great sessions that Phil has created. There is a flour hopper on the DLS, VR VPFX kuid 2:1854:1596:1 O So Lite. There is also a plain one, kuid 2:1854:1595:1. Another hopper you might find handy is the VR JX kuid 50567:108979

I'll try to work more with that Beth gondola 86311:999116 and looking at the config.txt, although I think I'm not informed enough to understand that stuff yet, BUT maybe I could understand it!

I have just uploaded a Trainz2009 session for IndustRail 2a called "Articulated". It uses articulated container well cars and articulated TOFC spline cars. The items needed by the session that are not on the Download Station are in the cpd file contained in the zip file here:

Here is a flow chart from an earlier version that shows some of the normal activities you might want to implement in a scenario. Bob

Not always! But I do try to provide all the information needed by the crew. I even went as far as to give an illustrated walk-thru for one session. See here: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showt...ght=industrail Phil

Run CM and right click on the session and select Edit - Edit in Explorer. If there is help it should be there. When you're done, close the kuid by right clicking and selecting Edit - revert.

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Here is a tip for moving Track marks. If you want to move track marks beyond spline points, use the move function for track objects (i.e. signals etc.) it works on track marks of all kinds. cheers, andyz

In the above image, you can see the result. The fill under the two tracks in the backgound is part of the track and was not added after the fact. It bridges the dip in the ground very nicely. Search for "1t spoordijk grind MRT" or 70337:38035 to try it

Rolling Stock... There is a lot.  Some of it is even on the DLS, but this lot isn't.... Please note that most - if not all - of the sites linked to here will require users to be registered and/or logged in before downloading.  Registration with all of these groups is quick, easy and hassle-free.  Links to group homepages are included below.... from Checkrail.com NS C40-8 - thanks Sean for letting me host these fine skins.

In the schedule Library rule you give a name to the first schedule then place all the driver commands for that section of the route you want it to take. This includes all industry or stations plus trackmarks. (Make sure you have the drive via or drive to trackmark commands ticked in the driver command rule) Select the next/add schedule give it another name etc etc. One of the driver commands is copy commands from. Place this in your selected train, even ones created in a portal, and you will get a second menu appear with amend or insert. Highlight one and another screen appears which you select to copy from another train or from the library. Pick Library and you get a list of all the routes you put into it. When AI gets this command he will then follow the route in the library.

I have setup one of my AI drivers to drive a schedule which consists on "coupling" to freight car and then driving to the freight car then hauling to to unload and then i have it set to repeat. My question: Is there away or a rule to remove the "couple" command from the schedule during the session., besides doing it manually?

I would set up in the schedule library two sets of commands: the first with the couple/uncouple command and the second one omitting it. Use the 'copy commands from' and insert the first library command, then 'enable repeat' and then finally the second library command. What this does is the first time the train will perform the couple/uncouple action and then in the future repeats of the route this action will not be performed.

If the invisible signal idea does not work try the command 'couple to vehicle in front/behind signal'. You will have to name/number the signal, so you will have as commands, drive to t/mark/wait for 30 secs,uncouplez vehicle 1or2,drive to t/mark {this is to allow the engine to get to a set of points}, couple to vehicle front/behind signal. I know it's long winded but if your at a station or use it a lot at the same place you can put the set of commands in a schedule library and give the copy commands from library {run round}. one command and all the ones you have saved under that name are followed. __________________

Simple realy when you think about it, a drive command is one off. A drive schedule is a series of drive commands strung together one after the other. When the AI driver completes one command he will look for the next command, if there is no more commands he will stop. If you have a continuous track i.e. a loop you can place a repeat after the last command, this will cause a completed command to be added at the end of the list and used again after all the others have been completed. Cheers,

Have you told a driver to move to the loco or given the loco a driver in surveyor? The usual problem if a schedule does not start is because there is no driver in the loco. The repeat command cannot cause the loco to go in reverse unless the fist command destination is behind the train. But if you have a loop track you will require at least three trackmarks spaced around the loop to keep the train going in the right direction.

Well yes. Central Portal Control lets the portal select a consist at random from a list that you provide when setting up the portal instructions. It will also emit in sequence if you so desire. I've found that the tricky part is setting up the path for the AI train to follow - it also becomes incredibly tedious if a large number of track marks are used to describe the patch.

Search for "copy" on the DLS and you find the Copy Commands From (KUID2:192081:1:6). Search for "schedule" and you will find the Schedule Library (KUID2:192081:12:4) along with a few others that may interest you. Make sure that TRS2004 is ticked under the Trainz Versions. Hope that is what you were looking for.

For those interested, I downloaded "Copy Commands From" and "Schedule Library" from the Download Station into TRS2009. In Surveyor, open "Edit Sessions Rules" (top left of screen, looks like #), select "Driver Command" from the menu, then Edit. Place a tick against "Copy Commands From". Close this menu. Now click "Add", and add "Schedule Library". Select this and set up the path as as for a normal portal. Give it a name, eg Path1 I'm using Central Portal Control (because it will emit a consist immediately). Open Central Portal Control. Add a consist and driver. Now for the path select Copy Command/Insert/from Library/Path1. Repeat for other consists from this portal. Easy !~! The same procedure can be used for a portal (Surveyor, "?", click on portal) if Central Portal Control is not used. Thanks again. Phil

I have these commands and I use them on one route, as the basic concept should have been "default built-in" in my view. Yes, you only get the single icon - until it is used, and then it expands to the commands you are copying. But any command you have that are "specialised" like, I use "movetoloco" - these are kept to the original, so you'd have to change to what you need. Hope you understand what I'm saying as I'm not sure that I do!!! Chris

If you use Move to train at trackmark the commands will go with the driver. Ive used this a lot for placing the driver from one task to another with a different train. __

Yup use "Path Command" with "Drive to" and that most excellent "Trainz Schedule Library" you can't go far wrong. Takes a bit of time to set up but once done it only takes one click to give a Drive a whole complicated route.

drive to and drive via will not work with select part you have to autodrive or TPR drive hope this helps

Hi PikeWake, Yes it is possible so long as you have enough patience, it will take quite a lot of commands. Extra commands you will need are "Couple At Trackmark" kuid 57145 81100 "UcouplezFrom" kuid 66277 80005 "Uncouplez" kuid 66277 80000"Hornz" kuid 66277 80001 You will also need trackmarks on each siding both the pick up sidings and the drop off sidings and one on the main exit line.

Bill69 has already said what is needed. You need to add to the track two trackmarks, one at the buffer end (not to near the buffer as the buffer stop will effect it) and one just inside the junction. Do this for each spur and name the trackmarks (say 101B at buffer end and 101J for junction end). Commands would be :- couple at trackmark 101J uncouplez from two couple at trackmark 102J uncouplez from four couple at trackmark 103J uncouplez from six drive to trackmark 001B uncouplez Then repeat the above using the names of the next spur.

You want the copy commands from and the schedule library rule kuid2:192081:1:6 and kuid2:192081:12:4 Place the tasks you want repeated in the library and use the copy command to call up the task in driver set up __________________