Stuck Trains in Yards?

[boleyd]

On more than one route I have stuck/idle engines in a yard. Even when I place a trackmark within several feet in front of the train, it does not advance to the trackmark. The AI instructions are not presented in the status strip at the bottom of the page. The session starts in Driver mode and remains there. I did leave the engine waiting on instructions to go to a destination once and after about 45 minutes it had left the yard and was syopped at the trackmark. Prior to that, and all other attempts the information strip shows a manual driver condition.

If I start rhe engine on an open track well away from the yard, AI operates it as predicted.The three routes, with different engines,
where I tried this are all similar. Unless there is an option that someone recalls did this I may have to reinstall Platinum/TRS19. It is as if the program never goes into AI mode and remains setup for a driver.

 

[MP242]

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[JCitron]

Do you have any direction markers?

If so check that they're not facing the wrong way. If you hover over any signals, the signal may state direction marker facing in wrong direction or something to that effect. If you click on the small caret just above the driver's image, you can scroll through the past messages and look for the infamous Unable to plot route message.

Check levers too.
This could also be a missing lever somewhere on the route elsewhere. You know the usual drill drive the AI and see where it goes.

Then... Sometimes the AI take forever to negotiate lots of junctions and signals. This is a bug that goes back to T:ANE SP2 and requires a complete rewrite of the AI logic. When T:ANE SP3 came out, the AI got worse so this logic was reverted and we've moved on the TRS19 and its still in the same status.

 

[JackDownUnder]

As I have indicated before, there is nothing wrong with A1.
If it refuses to move a train forward then there is a problem somewhere in the direction of travel.
On my route which is very extensive I run A1 all day without problems.
One run is 35 miles into York, the later having a very complicated switching arrangement.
Patience and perseverance is the name of the game.