AAAAACK!!!! Tracklaying - troubleshooting link gone?!

[sniper297]

http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html

The Holy Bible for laying track and signals and AI traffic is gone? Or is this a temp glitch? Putting together a beginner's guide here;

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?311484-AI-traffic-beginner-s-guide

And I went to link to the 0catch one, but I'm getting a 503 error. Anyone else getting that? Did they move the tutorial?

 

[smash]

Can not answer as to whether it is a gitch or not. But you can get to a copy of the webpage from http://archive.org/web/web.php
http://web.archive.org/web/20100329071756/http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html

I tried a couple of links they appear to work
Kenny

 

[Pladroid]

Hi Jim
I can still access it here you do know you can download the pdf versions from there to your local computer.

 

[sniper297]

Thanks, Smash, that link looks like it has the whole smash (sorry, can never resist a pun!).

Pladroid, you saying you're not getting a 503 error from the original link? I run Firefox 15, just tried it in IE8 and get the same 503. Running a tracert on it;


C:\>tracert www.trainz.0catch.com

Tracing route to www.trainz.0catch.com [69.27.174.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms (My IP address deleted)
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms adsl-99-156-207-254.dsl.applwi.sbcglobal.net [99
.156.207.254]
3 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms dist2-vlan60.applwi.sbcglobal.net [67.38.56.243]

4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms bb2-g7-0-4.applwi.sbcglobal.net [151.164.55.36]

5 62 ms 61 ms 61 ms 12.122.104.69
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 62 ms 62 ms 62 ms border1.te3-1-bbnet1.lax012.pnap.net [216.52.255
.37]
8 63 ms 63 ms 63 ms acedc-5.border10.lax.pnap.net [63.251.209.206]
9 84 ms 83 ms 88 ms tg1-1.ar01.prov.acedc.net [199.58.196.37]
10 85 ms 84 ms 84 ms 199-58-198-82.acedc.net [199.58.198.82]
11 83 ms 87 ms 84 ms 69.27.174.10

Trace complete.

It looks like step 6 is busted.

 

[smash]

I could not get to the webpage either. The wayback archive has served me well in the past.
I could not find 6 either.
Kenny

Oh and have a smashing day.

 

[Pladroid]

Hi Jim
Very weird I am now getting 503 (Firefox latest version) when I replied first off I had just clicked your link and I got it straight away. Now I have the 503 very weird.

 

[sniper297]

Might have just happened recently, and you were looking at a cached page. I got firefox set to clear cache and delete all cookies on exit, since most of my webbing is forums, which makes the whole page caching thing kinda useless.

 

[AntonyVW]

I get the 503 using chrome

 

[HiBaller]

I'm getting the original link to the tutorials just fine on Firefox 16.0.1, even after clearing cache and all that.

EDIT: Well, that isn't actually true now. I get a LOT of 503's when I try to refresh the page. Apparently, 0catch.com is a pretty shaky web site.

Bill

 

[bwfeldsee]

Just tried it here in the UK (using Internet Explorer) and everything is working OK at the moment.

Alan

 

[Jananton]

Hmm, you all do realise the link is : http://trains.0catch.com/tutorial.html and not trainz with a 'z' now do you. :hehe:

Greetings from nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan

 

[sniper297]

Yup, I screwed the pooch on the tracert. Whatever was wrong yesterday seems to have been fixed tho, the original bookmark I had works now. :clap: