Thanks for the input, and that does appear to be the case. I did nothing, except check my account info, and then made another attempt at downloading that worked fine.
There's a heck of a learning curve with all this, and until I started getting into TS 2010, my opinion of my abilities with a computer were rather high. I even made a reasonable amount of money doing programming and consulting for about 8 years, but this game has given me reason to reassess what I thought I knew
It has all been fun (though sometimes frustrating); after all, I was looking for something to fill in some time, and whatever else can be said about Trainz, it will definitely accomplish that, working or not!
I really appreciate this forum and the overall helpfulness and concern of everyone for each other is marvelously high.
I mainly bought TS 12 for the manual, I must admit. I have had TS 2004, Ultimate Trainz and TS 2006 before, and never really got too involved with it. Retirement makes it possible to finally use TS 2010 to go where I had hoped to go with the earlier versions.
With no organized documentation, it's been an adventure trying to learn enough to build a route. If not for these forums, I would have thrown in the towel months ago. Of course, I could probably help myself along a bit better if I would learn to look here first, THEN go try something rather than the other way around (write that down if you've just started using Trainz readers).
I still am making progress of sorts, despite having replaced all my track four times, and my forests seven times. Who knows if it will ever work as planned, but it will certainly have a far better chance with the help I know you all will give me than if I had to go it alone, even with my new manual
As a route developer I sympathize, tracklaying in MSTS was tedious to figure out and really complicated, tracklaying in railsim/railworks was a breeze to learn and produced excellent results.