Recent content by bwfeldsee

I recently extended my route by around 10 kms and some sessions that had worked perfectly well before now crash whilst others are OK. I have worked out that the sessions affected are the busy ones where there are several AI trains and parked wagons in sidings and the crash always occurs at...

Seeing JCitron's helpful reply to Wayfarer's thread, I was tempted to have a go at changing the vehicle era on one of my routes. Sadly the formula doesn't seem to work in TRS 2006 - you only get back to the screen which gives you the options of scale and Imperial versus Metric. The Geographical...

All of a sudden I am having problems getting Trainz to launch and , when this happens, the only solution appears to be to uninstall and reinstall - quite tedious with the basic game plus seven commercial routes and three home produced routes. I originally thought it was the well known problem of...

I have an unusual problem. Quite suddenly yesterday Trainz refused to launch. Having clicked Start, the familiar screen with the cogwheel came up, the cogwheel did a half turn, stopped and there it sat for ever. Thinking I may have accidentally fallen foul of the closing the computer too soon...

I've just written a session involving some shunting with my driver's loco and various AI trains going past in both directions along the main line whilst the shunting is taking place. At one stage I have to cross the main line between trains. After quite a lot of tweaking I got the timing of the...

I have an occasional peculiarity with a diesel loco on one of my routes in that the exhaust streams off in the wrong direction and I get smoke rings in front of my cab window. When I go into outside view, there it is going horizontally forwards in front of the loco. Everything else is fine -...

Hello again I have just been editing my route and when I went to save, I got the message that it couldn't save and I must save it as a new route. I did this but then lost all my activities. This happened once before and this forum very kindly explained that I must change the kuid number to the...

I've been working on a route for a few weeks when suddenly this evening the route refused to save - or rather the message told me it couldn't save and I must save under a new name. So I went to "save as" and actually used the same name again. This worked OK but I've now got a route with no...

I'm currently building a route and have reached 25 miles. The physical size is 11.1 MB. I notice that several commercial rotes I have bought have a size of about 10 to 12 MB and one, in particular, which would have been bigger actually comes in two parts, each of about 10 MB. (You drive half the...

I've built a couple of routes and am fairly certain that the datum mark for zero height when I started the first board was 0.00 (the same as the built-in routes that come with Trainz). Each route is about 20 miles in length. I finished them, designed some sessions and so on and had a good play...

I know that AI trains can be stubborn beasts but I can usually get them to go where I want (eventually) by giving them enough "drive via" instructions. However I haven't yet understood why they might suddenly slow down then speed up again for no apparent good reason. On my route I have nice...

Hi I would be grateful for a bit of guidance but, before I start, an apology that I am clueless when it comes to understanding computer hardware jargon. I have an HP 3070 (dated 2005) and bought Trainz 2006 about 16 months ago, having run MSTS on this computer very well for several years. I...

Is there a key or other method for passing a signal at danger to enter an occupied siding whilst shunting? Thanks Alan

Is there any way to control the speed of AI trains? In my limited experience, they seem to travel at the maximum permitted speed for that section of route - perhaps commensurate with the maximum speed of the loco although I've never put this to the test. In real life, a freight train with...

Hi The weirdest thing just happened. I was happily working in Editor laying some track and a few roads when I noticed that the adjacent baseboard had disappeared. I don't mean I had accidentally deleted it because you couldn't see the usual black vertical walls of the adjoining boards - it was...