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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.

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

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. __

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:

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!

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.

This is the second session for the TC3 version of "Port Ogden and Northern". See here for details of this route:

will the layouts work in 2009?

TC 3 and trainz map I cannot get trainz map to work with TC3 any ideas .many thanks George

Downloads

The why of building a model railroad layout Why do you want a layout? Why do layout planning? The layout design and planning process Using Givens and Druthers to guide the process

Model Railroad Operation Guides Operator’s Guide to Better Operation

Plan it, Build it, Run it

THE SIERRA WESTERN & SANTA FE RR Operations Manual Local Trains

Bob Martin'sCentral Pennsylvania Railroad

Well, I did import both PO&N and Riverside into TC3. There were a few hiccups, like the need to rotate all north-south industries by 0.1 degrees. There's a thread of mine in the TC3 forum about this. And links to the site where the routes can be downloaded. Sessions too.

Best layout out forrrr..... I'm trying to find the best layout or route to run mainly freight but with some amtrak action as well. I'd prefer it being in a semi north eastern setting, but at this point any will do...any suggestions? __________________ Chris

I suggest the first thing you do is to search on the Download Station for "Products". When you do this you will find heaps of different things that can be carried. At the same time you will find a lot of "Industry Tracks" available as well.

Another suggestion I would make is that when you are building a route, add a spare baseboard to it. On this place some tracks that you can put your choices on and you can also place buildings etc so that you can just go there and click on the item with the get selection in the flyout and you have your modified unit to place at other spots. I found the best way is to just try things out, if it works ok then keep a noteboke and jot it down for future reference.

For example using a built-in industry, the coal mine. I create a consist of different hoppers that can carry coal on a empty track. Then using the Get Consist button in Consist mode, I save the consist as Auran Coal Mine - Coal. This gives me a ready made consist to place on any route

I've put together a little demo - mouse click on this link and download the file: http://rapidshare.com/files/211284902/KRL_demo.cdp The cdp file contains the test route, a test session and all the dependencies for the freight car. Just drag and drop the cdp file into the main pane of CM2.

I downloaded/commited Philskene's KRL 7 pieces for this asset. All show a yellow puzzle piece with ?. View errors & warnings all show the .pm mesh nolonger unsupported statement and #4 also has a missing black.texture statement in its load_mesh folder. The View Dependencies shows missing bogies :128 and :129. I wonder why CM2 didn't automatically download them since they are dependencies. I download/committed the 2 bogies, :128 shows error can't load shadow/shadow.pm. Looked at the :128 bogey file contents but there's no shadow folder or mesh. The easiest correction for this type of error is to add a mesh-table container to the config.txt file to reference the .pm mesh that is there. Also made a small (32x32) black square .jpg and a black.texture.txt file for the load_mesh folder. Saved and committed. Now, all 7 kuids only show the yellow ! because of the .pm meshes but tried them out and all can be place on a track in Surveyor.

Click on this link and download the zip file: http://rapidshare.com/files/18159640...umentation.zip Inside you will find three documents in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format: 1. Detailed maps for IndustRail 2. 2. How to drive in Cab Mode. 3. Configuring LARS, ProtoLARS, Multiple Industry New and freight cars.