Recent content by laldfordo

This is not specific to Trainz but I am hoping one of the computer-expert forum members can help. I have four partitions, two where the OS is XP-Pro, two where the OS is DOS 6.22. I ran chkdsk on one of the DOS partitions and found cross linking - ie two files on the same sector. The culprit...

I've been experimenting with stopping distances, before spacing the signals on a layout, by trying single, double, triple and so on heading on a standard train. I expected the stopping distance to be roughly inversely proportional to the square root of the number of engines. But it is not like...

Using minimum circle size and raising or lowering a square on the baseboard operates on a crossing of grid lines to the left of the circle. It always used to operate on the square that was inside the circle. I cannot any more, for example, create an embankment one square wide at the top with...

Which track, in TRS2004 or on DLS for TRS2004, has the lowest poly count? Same question for bridges. How can you tell the poly count of an asset?

Abandoning the previous thread, here is a diagram for my problem. Please take on board that the route is signalled correctly and mostly it works correctly. So I'm looking for an explanation of / solution to some strange behaviour of the signals. A red signal (in Auran) with its back to the...

Picture a junction with signal A on one of the trailing branches and signal B on the facing side. (Both signals correctly placed in relation to spline points and point lever.) After a train goes through the junction from the trailing side, A goes red and B goes yellow. When the train passes the...

As in the real world, AI drivers know what the next speed sign says before they get to it. But, as far as I can tell, they take no action until well past the sign. So you have to place the sign quite a long way before where you want the speed reduction or increase to kick in. Does anyone know...

I have named some signals - those that mark the end of a block and the start of the next block - and the names appear in the map views of Surveyor and Driver. But I can't get the names to appear in the ordinary views. I can get round it by putting a named trackmark by each signal but is there...

When I go into map view (1-baseboard layout, TRS2004, in either Driver or Surveyor) the baseboard has become a portrait-oriented rectangle instead of a square. Possibly it has always been like that and I've never noticed before. Irrespective, can anyone tell me how to make map view a square...

This in response to Martinvk's tip in the tips and tricks thread, but it's a question not a tip. I like not only the track that carries its own ground fill underneath but also the embankment and the cut-back bridge abutments. Do you have the kuids for those. The only way I have found of...

If you have two or more locos at the head of a train do you have to give the second (third etc) loco a driver and the same commands as the leading loco in order to get the pulling and braking effort of the second (third etc) loco? Or do the following locos automatically add their power to the...