shunting problem

[casel]

Hi,,,,,,,,could some one help please, I have a shunting yard with a shunt engine and I will have a loco dropping off a consist on a certain track and I want to have the shunt engine pick up after the loco has dropped off and gone, is there any way to let the shunt engine know there is a consist there.
Thanks
Casel

 

[bwfeldsee]

Hi,,,,,,,,could some one help please, I have a shunting yard with a shunt engine and I will have a loco dropping off a consist on a certain track and I want to have the shunt engine pick up after the loco has dropped off and gone, is there any way to let the shunt engine know there is a consist there.
Thanks
Casel

You could try a little experimenting here. Perhaps if you gave your second loco a "wait until" command and the "until" was when your first loco reached a trackmark, I reckon you could safely drive off your train and the second loco would spring into action when you reached your trackmark.

Give it a try - it should work provided your shunting loco knows where you have left your train.

Good luck - I'm glad to see someone else is still using simple good old fashioned 2006. I was beginning to think I was old fashioned!!!

Alan

 

[casel]

Thanks for the quick response, it looks like a good idea to me, thanks.
I will post a reply when I have tried it out.
Casel

 

[fran1]

Try this

The consist comes into the yard, use drive to t/mark. Uncouples and drives to another t/mark, place a trigger before the t/mark. Shunt loco is waiting for trigger (name it) to be triggered, then it sets of shunting.

 

[stagecoach]

Do what I always do, use the post message and wait for message and clear commands. Get the driver of the incoming wagons to post a message at some point after the uncouple while the shunt engine has the wait for message and clear command. Once the message is sent the shunt engine will begin its task. Im just working on a small shunt yard where two shunt engines pick up coal on one of two random tracks and places them back on one of four empty tracks. Mainline engines and shunt engines all use the commands and dont rely on triggers.

 

[casel]

Hi all ,,it looks like I'm going to be busy here, I will get back when Ive tried them to see which I like best.
Thanks again
Len

 

[big_b]

Use two triggers with small radius settings ( one for the loco one for the carriage/wagon to be coupled to)the loco will activate one when it stops & uncouples to start the driver commands on the second loco.The second loco may need a wait command to allow time for the first to leave then move to couple up to the consist at the second which is positioned at the first carriage.
I fooled around with this in TS09 & it worked well but just as a test never really used it in a full working route.

Dave

 

[casel]

Hi,, could tell me please how you post the messages, and be a bit more clear how I do this? Stagecoach

 

[stagecoach]

Hi Casel
I find this method very simple to do and it only works on trains that use the messages. Download the "post message" and "wait for message and clear" commands and make sure you have ticked them in the driver commands list. The names you will see are not important so dont need to match any driver. The creator used these names from the original list of trainz drivers.
In your incoming train place the post message command (Tom completed task 2) into its driver command list at a convienient point after the uncouple. In your shunt engine the first command is the wait for message and clear (Tom completed task 2). You must use the same name and message in both the post message and wait for message. Once the arrived train posts his message the shunter will recieve it and carry out the commands that followed it.

Train A incoming
Drive to TM ****
Uncouplez
Drive to TM ***
Poast message (Tom completed task 2)
The rest of the drivers schedule follows

Train B shunter
Wait for message and clear (Tom completed task 2)
Couple to train at TM ****
The rest of his schedule follows

 

[colourlight]

I haven,t tried the post message command. I have used the Trigger command at a terminal station when I wanted a loco to attach to the rear of an arriving train and take it on it's next journey while the arriving loco refuels ready for it's next journey. Might give it a whirl

 

[fran1]

There's not much in between triggers or post commands, what your used to.

 

[stagecoach]

The difference is when trains are from a portal. Triggers uses all trains or named trains. It wont know what train comes out of a portal. The post message only applies to the two trains talking to each other and does not need to know the trains details. Several trains can come and go but only the train posting message will activate the second train. This works well in a terminus when DMU trains arrive and depart but a single engine needs another engine for the departure.

 

[casel]

Sounds brill but I,m having another prob at present, you will see it in general trains
All the best
Len

 

[casel]

After a lot of work uninstalling and installing, re-updating and a whole lot more I have finally got things going again, now I would like to ask stagecoach do I have to download the message thing off dls because I cant get my dls workiing, will it work with t2006 and I havent bought a ticket either yet.
I would like some help on this please.
All the best to you
Len