Loops, balloons, continuous running
#1
Posted 07 October 2021 - 07:11 AM
Is it possible to have track like this and expect it to operate correctly?
https://i.imgur.com/JrE26QX.jpg
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Randy
#2
Posted 07 October 2021 - 07:36 AM
steved, on 07 October 2021 - 07:11 AM, said:
Hi Randy,Once upon a time (about 3-4 years ago) I was able to operate a loop on my LIRR route
The loop is a actual part of the Sunnyside Yards complex and did operate a train in a loop configuration in manual mode.
I don't know what happened but after applying several updates (I usually run the latest unstable testing version) it didn't run anymore and crashed when taking a switch into the loop. As I said, this was some 3 years ago (or more!)
In other words I was never able to set up a path to do the loop, and only by going manual (leaving the path) and switching into the loop was I able to run it.
So yes I was able to run in an Open Rails testing version probably a 3 year old version.
I think it was before the release of the first OR Stable version but I'm not sure on that point.
I was kinda' fun but hardly prototypical.
regards,
vince
#3
Posted 07 October 2021 - 08:51 AM
#4
Posted 07 October 2021 - 09:07 AM
For reversing of steam engines at the end of passenger line.
#5
Posted 07 October 2021 - 11:02 AM
#6
Posted 07 October 2021 - 12:50 PM
Weter, on 07 October 2021 - 09:07 AM, said:
For reversing of steam engines at the end of passenger line.
??? I layed a path into and reversed out of wye just the other day, in the MLT Rogers Pass route, never had any troubled with paths through "Ys".
#7
Posted 07 October 2021 - 05:01 PM
Since it's a freelance route - why bother with the looping complexities - how about some simple staging tracks - with the advent of "Timetables" in ORTS - you could easily schedule trains to run by with the frequency of a loop - even using the same consist - spawn in staging - dispose in staging. Simple timetables are pretty easy to setup. Just my two cents - thinking outside the box - please take it for what it's worth.
:)
Regards,
Scott
#8
Posted 08 October 2021 - 12:28 AM
For loops my preferred route is this unsignalled tram route, which is inspired to my city:
http://www.trainsimh...oad.php?did=761
Using TrackViewer I have just built a new path that loops twice on a part of the route and the loops on another part of the route
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That seems to work, except for an issue: I get some EOA where there shouldn't be. If I however move further, I'm on auto mode again.
This causes problems to AI trains (trams...), and maybe I'll have a look at the code.
To check balloons (tennis bat loops) I used the ATSF Gallup sub and generated some test paths. If I remember well there weren't problems with a single balloon in the path; however, if there were more than one, not everything was OK.
I never had problems with wyes.
#9
Posted 09 October 2021 - 09:41 PM
It may be bad track laying as well. Though.
That is wye with two "horns" and one exit. Dead ends are signalled.
Locomotive "jumps" from one dead end to other, paths are fail to work.
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Exactly the same I've observed yesterday, exploring Sherbinka testing loop:
Game crashes after throwing switch to close the loop/or as locomotive approach that switch.
Session, that using the path around the loop (track viewer allows such path and saved it) aborts during last seconds of loading.
"Session" is regular "Explore the route", not +in activity mode+
#10
Posted 10 October 2021 - 10:34 AM