Recent content by yukontookon

How do you delete an entry portal from a route ? I want to merge a route that has entry portals on it with another route, but it has an entry portal where I need to merge / connect the tracks of the two routes. I can't figure out how to delete the entry portal, as I couldn't find it in any...

How do railroads service industries that get a string of cars - i.e. grain elevators ? Does a railroad dedicate an engine to periodically work the siding to move the string of cars to the loading chute or does the industry move the string of cars using a winch & cable arrangement ? Same...

Is there a difference in the assets available to download through Content Manager or DownLoad Station (DLS) ? Or are they simply two different interfaces to the same assets ?

Anyone know what can cause turnouts to become inoperable in a session. When I go back to Edit the "parent" session, the turnouts appear fine, but when I try to resume the saved operating session via Resume Session the turnout arrows are both red (instead of red/green) and turnout is...

Does a First Class Ticket work directly in Content Manager (V3.6) or only when downloading thru Download Station? I haven't used and am not familiar with Download Station. Also, any opinions whether a FCT is worth the money? Is there a noticable improvement in download speed and will it...

I just purchased a Loco Pac from Download Station (actually Simulator Central), downloaded it, I see it in my Downloads directory, but don't know how to get TS12 Content Manager to recognize and/or find it (using Windows7)........ Any thoughts?

How can you load TTX 89ft TOFC Flatcars with 40' Container Loads? I've done it once - obviously by accident, because I can't seem to do it again. Running TS12, Build 49922, and was using the NEC Wilmington Route. Added a TTX 89 ft TOFC Flatcar and within Surveyer, in Train Properties...

Newbee question.....Can someone explain how commodities & waybills work. Can any industry be assigned a commodity that it consumes or only certain industries that are interactive?

Does anyone know what can cause junctions (turnouts) to behave sporatically. They will function properly in Surveyor, as well as when I start a session. But after I have saved the session a few times, then some of the junctions do not function. The overlay arrows are red in both directions...

Can you adjust the distance at which a train will trigger a grade crossing to signal? I have installed a grade crossing (Grade Xing US 07 2L 1T) near a freight siding, but when I leave a car at the siding the crossing signal sounds continuously & gate stays down. Can you adjust / shorten...

Is there an easy way to make the terrain follow the track slope/gradient in Trainz Simulator 12? What I mean is, if you are laying a siding track to a "ground level" industry off of an elevated branch-line, how do you make the ground elevation and track follow the same gradient down to ground...