Recent content by Midland

Trackmarks are a totally brilliant feature; you can place them here there and everywhere and use Drive to trackmark> or Drive via trackmark> and your AI drivers scuttle about all over your layout following orders (more or less). I have noticed, however, that when I use a Drive via trackmark>...

Okay, here is a fictitious station and yard in 04. The signals are all named as are the plentiful trackmarks. You can see it's basically a main line, a loop, and an extra loop called 1 road. The mass of track at the bottom of the map is an adjacent coal mine. From left to right is "down" and...

An early evening east of Sundermeyer and the stillness is broken by the distant wail of a chime whistle and a steady thrumming of the rails. With a roar and a clatter 13 and 17 charge onto the bridge at the foot of the grade with a long train of flatcars for VanDenH. Fresh out of the Midland...

Here are the latest shots of my 52' flatcar. We now have a deck a handbrake wheel and a handbrake shaft. Still having issues with my installation of GMax (getting maps and plans to appear) but gradually getting the hang of it. Enjoy. And the lovely 45' logcars by Charlie Lear and a dozen...

I am having problems with my GMax and importing diagrams. I have three views of a flatcar plan which I have tried to place in each of the three views (I haven't tried it in the perspective window). One view per window. Only the elevation plan in the Left window works properly. In the plan view...

Here is Midland's latest brain explosion; reskinning. :hehe: Yet another reskinning of Shane Perman's Frisco 4-8-2 mountain (thanks for the loco and for permission to reskin Shane). Ever heard of this railroad? She might be an old warhorse now but she's a good 'un. And you've just...

On the Port Ogden & Northern railroad an ex UP big boy backs down onto a heavy shale train on the PO&N conveyor belt. She locks couplers nice and gently. But that's not a UP tender; it's a purpose built Centipede. And that doesn't look like Union Pacific written on the side. Let's get...

I am building a session using the Big Boy. To make it more interesting I would like to reduce the amount of water carried. Because the Big Boy is a built-in asset in 04 I can't access the config.txt file to tweak the water values. If I use a 3rd party tender I can tweak the config.txt to...

I know there's a tips and tricks for Surveyor thread but for the nonce I can't find it. A little bit of lateral thinking has resolved an issue that keeps cropping up when using other creators' layouts and one can never find a suitable trackmark or object to give a Drive to command. I want an...

The Wait for... command is very useful but there seem to be some oddities with it. For example if a session starts at 10:00 and I want to have a train start at 10:23 I can select Wait for... 10 minutes Wait for... 10 minutes Wait for... 2 minutes Wait for... 1 minute Then give it its...

I have the Instant Load Rule kuid2:67585:1017:1 by Robin Hoods and it has worked well especially for loading portal generated trains. However in my latest use of it the trains being emitted from the portal have the wagons loaded with every product they can carry. The end result of this is that...

Some screenies of the lovely TPR Tehachapi layout. A train of 16,927 tons, 150 cars and two UP Challengers. An hour and a half of fun driving in Cab Mode of course... *

Thank you for these new toys Pete. I thought I'd share some screenshots of them in action already. Here they are earning their keep with a 1900 tonne coal train... Unfortunately the train stalled 'coz 5585 couldn't keep steam up for some reason. We found some diseasels to finish...

Please could someone tell me or direct me to setting this up on my PC? I've hunted around and found a few things but it all seems mindbogglingly complicated and difficult. The layouts I've seen that use this feature look very accurate and good and I want to start work on a project that really...

Okay, so I thought it might be a good idea to use templates for my curves on my new layout to try and curb my overactive imagination... BUT ... I realise I have a considerable degree of ignorance about how to use 'em. For example MrDen has produced a whole bunch of them and they look good...