Can I install a Yellow Signal Easily?

[KonstantinMMRR]

I would like to install a signal that is always yellow. This may not be real realistic, but it is a way to warn me, as I am driving a train, that the speed limit will be dropping soon. I keep running at 70MPH, forgetting that the speed limit drops down to 30MPH and rounds a bend.

I would like to add a signal that is always yellow, but I do not want the signal interconnected with the others. What I mean by this is, I don't want TrainZ to think it is a signal, only the non-AI engineers think it is a signal.

Thank you
Dean

 

[leeferr]

I find the easiest way to warn me of a signal coming up is using the mc Display Custom HUD V2 rule. When you're setting up a session, just add this rule and while in driver, there will be a window that will alert you to the next signal, the aspect of the signal and distance to the signal. I use it in most of my sessions and it is very helpful.

Mike

 

[Euphod]

Something like this:

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=106791

would seem to fit the bill.

 

[baz66]

ED If the OP uses the hud in 2012, wouldn't it flash if he's over the speed limit?
baz

 

[H222]

Yes, but he wants to slow down BEFORE the speed sign, not after it starts flashing red

Jamie

 

[ray_whiley]

This idea may help UK users of semaphore signals who want to use a fixed distant signal which was sometimes used in advance of eg. a terminal station.

My way is to lay a short eg. 10 metre length of fixed track, place the semaphore signal, move the fixed track until the fixed distant is correctly placed, then attach invisible track which makes the fixed track invisible in Driver, finally deleting the spline invisible track.

I expect there is nothing new in this, but it may help someone.

Ray

 

[KonstantinMMRR]

Euphod, the little signs you recommend look like they would work well.

Jamie, yes, I do want to slow down before. I am tired of driving at 70MPH, then suddenly zipping around a sharp curve while slamming on the emergency brakes. That is not realistic. I would like to be prepared for the slower speed limits.

Dean

 

[backyard]

...another way...

Pay closer attention...

 

[danny5]

There are warn 25mph and up for usa route.they have no efixed on AI driving. Type in warn in track object.

 

[chrisaw]

I have a gwr style fixed distant semaphore on the dls if fits in with your railway practice.

Chris.

 

[ldowns]

Another alternative, if you're comfortable with editing config files, is to take an existing signal, clone it, change the type to scenery, and modify the corona to always display yellow. This doesn't work with all signals but I've used it to create dummy block signals that are always green for intermediate signals between junctions (where Trainz conventional wisdom states that you never want a real signal because of the likelihood of deadlocks).

--Lamont