SW7 Burlington

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Gary_Evans

Still plays with Trainz
I recently purchased a new computer equipped with Windows 7 64 bit. I installed TS 2010 and the upgrades and have run three extended data base repairs. I am in the process of creating a session located in Corning, Iowa 1955 where the CB&Q and all its wonderful Zephyrs ran. I am desperately in need of the SW7-Burlington locomotive (kuid:-18:1100). My asset list shows it as built-in and currently installed but it does not show in Railyard or when I try to find it under rolling stock. Any suggestions as to what is going wrong?
Gary
 
It is the same way in the ancient TRS2004, Gary. Here is an old thread where I asked about this: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=43059. It always showed up fine for me in UTC (the version of Trainz before TRS2004) with PaintShed installed, but it will not show up in TRS2004, even though the .ja file for the PaintShed content is installed fine, and TRS2004 even appears to be caching the config.txt of the SW7 Burlington. :eek: :confused:

This problem has still not been resolved in my case.

Regards.
 
If you take a look at the config file you'll see the line:

secret 1

Change it to 0 (or just remove the line) and it will show up.
 
Rick, thank you very much. Really appreciate the tip. It worked and goes to show how these forums can be so helpful. I'm curious as to how you figured the secret 1 thing out but you don't have to reply if you are busy.
Thanks again.
Gary
 
Rick, thanks so much for taking the time to reply to my query. I really appreciate the tip. It worked just as you stated and it demonstrates why the forum can be used for other than whining about problems. I am curious as to how you figured out the secret 1 problem but don't reply if you are busy.
Thanks again.
Gary
 
Gary_Evans said:
I am curious as to how you figured out the secret 1 problem but don't reply if you are busy.
Thanks again.
Gary
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I wish I could say that it was due to my vast knowledge and experience with Trainz, but actually it was just a lucky guess. I took a look at the config and saw the secret entry (which I had never seen before). It was logical that if something was secret it wouldn't show up in the game, so I changed the value to false and there it was. What I'm curious about is why the secret entry exists at all. Whoever wrote the code to recognize the entry and hide the asset in Trainz must have had a reason, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what it was.
 
Ricke82 said:
I wish I could say that it was due to my vast knowledge and experience with Trainz, but actually it was just a lucky guess. I took a look at the config and saw the secret entry (which I had never seen before). It was logical that if something was secret it wouldn't show up in the game, so I changed the value to false and there it was. What I'm curious about is why the secret entry exists at all. Whoever wrote the code to recognize the entry and hide the asset in Trainz must have had a reason, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what it was.
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The reason was probably because, back in the UTC days, there was one version of this locomotive with the "secret 1" field (the one that you found), which was used in the Blue Sky Steel scenario built-in to Trainz, and then there was an other, presumably identical version with a different KUID and without the "secret 1" field that came with PaintShed. Once PaintShed was installed correctly and the PaintShed .ja files were correctly in place in your Trainz installation, then you would find that second (PaintShed) version of the locomotive (without the "secret 1" field) available in My Collection/Driver. ;) However, for some reason, it is not showing up for me in TRS2004, even though the PaintShed .ja files are installed and are apparently being cached correctly by Trainz. :confused:

Regards.
 
Retro:
I too thank you for the response. I remember Blue Sky Steel well and that was an image that kept me wondering why I could not get the SW7 to appear. I can sure understand why you stay with 2004. It is great and Auran's move to 2006 split the Trainz community down the middle. I still recall some of the nasty forum exchages between the two groups.
Best to you and thanks again.
Gary
 
No problem Gary. I actually would like to upgrade to at least TS2010, but the fact that TS2010 would cost about 30 bucks, plus the fact that my computer is a rather low-end Dell laptop, means that TRS2004 will have to do for right now. Nevertheless, I am satisfied just fine with the Trainz version (TRS2004) that I have. :)

One way that I could try to get the PaintShed version of the SW7 Burlington to show up in TRS2004 (since editing built-in content is not possible in TRS2004, unless I could edit the .chump cache files that contain the config.txt files of the built-in content) would be to to use a set of programs called "JA Tools" that I got off of the Internet somewhere a while back to extract the locomotive from the UTC version of the PaintShed .ja files (since the TRS2004 versions of the .ja files can not be extracted (possibly because they are encrypted? I think that I read something along those lines of them being encrypted a while back), while the UTC versions can be extracted (and I have done so to many of them)), and make the necessary changes to get it to show up in TRS2004. ;)

Regards.
 
Originally SW stood for Six hundred horsepower, Welded frame, but by the time of the SW7 (rated at 1200 hp) I don't believe it really "meant" anything. It was an improvement of the original SW design, so they kept that and just tacked a number on the end as they did with the SW8 (though it was rated at 800 hp, so it might be argued that the 8 meant something) and SW9. With the SW900 through the SW1504, the number (rounded off to the nearest hundred) was the horsepower of the locomotive. A few authors say that the SW stood for SWitcher and I'm certainly not expert enough to argue, but I've never seen anything from EMD to indicate that was the case.
 
I faced a similar problem.

ct_krogen said:
mmmmm your right i see it in cmp... but i can't find it in survory......mmmmmm
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I have the android game for Trainz, but the SW7 Burlington does not appear at all in Surveyor or Railyard, along with the NYC Cupola Caboose. It does, however appear once in a dead-end track during a session called "Big Boy and Centennial", and I only got ththe name from the "find object" list. Please fix this, Auran; seeing that the EMD SW7 is the only switcher in Trainz Simulator, I really want to be able to spawn it. :(
 
Hi I have just uploaded SW7 Burlington this will work in both TRS2004/TRS2006

LINK 1 = SW7 Burlington

LINK 2 = ARR Bogey

Screen shot from TRS2004
BurlingtonSW7_zpseb8ddc30.jpg
 
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