"Track ahead is unsignalled"

[WallysWorld]

Bought Trainz 2010 a few weeks ago and I'm just starting to play around with it. Trying to finish the Port Ogden Timber Session (#2) and I've hit a red light which doesn't change. When I move my mouse cursor over the red light, it says 'Track ahead is unsignalled'.

Being a complete Trainz novice, does that mean that I can proceed if the track section ahead is clear of AI trains according to the map?

Many thanks for all replies.

 

[ct_krogen]

Bought Trainz 2010 a few weeks ago and I'm just starting to play around with it. Trying to finish the Port Ogden Timber Session (#2) and I've hit a red light which doesn't change. When I move my mouse cursor over the red light, it says 'Track ahead is unsignalled'.

Being a complete Trainz novice, does that mean that I can proceed if the track section ahead is clear of AI trains according to the map?

Many thanks for all replies.
looks like a switch lever needs to be change....

 

[stagecoach]

Track unsignaled means that between your train and the end of the track, that your path has been set at, there are no more signals or buffer stops. Check the set path for signals and buffer stops or change the path to a different direction.

 

[WallysWorld]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Dermmy]

Track unsignaled means that between your train and the end of the track, that your path has been set at, there are no more signals or buffer stops. Check the set path for signals and buffer stops or change the path to a different direction.

That certainly used to be the case, but in 2010 the 'unsignalled' message appears to be a bit of a catch-all. There are a couple of threads more-or-less current on the subject, but I have definitely seen the message approaching a diverging junction from the trailing side where all sigs etc are in order, but the lever is simply set for the other route...

Andy

 

[mrscsi]

That certainly used to be the case, but in 2010 the 'unsignalled' message appears to be a bit of a catch-all. There are a couple of threads more-or-less current on the subject, but I have definitely seen the message approaching a diverging junction from the trailing side where all sigs etc are in order, but the lever is simply set for the other route...

Andy

I don't know if it's a catchall, what I'm thinking it may be something between layers and AI. I'm wondering if the track and the signals are on different layers, perhaps even one being a session layer and one being route layer.

I'm also wondering (as I'm certainly prone to do) not to pay complete attention while in surveyor and there have been times I've had track on three different layers if I'm not careful. Laying some track then popping out to driver, then come back in to do some more editing chances are you going to be on a different layer. I'm training myself slowly but surely to always check.

But I wonder if layers has something to do with this "sudden" AI issue…

 

[Dermmy]

It's not a 'Layer' thing! Everything on EK3 is on the same layer, and with very few exceptions (none of them track-related) was always on the same layer and I get the 'Unsignalled' message fairly regularly. There are definitely no unsignalled end-of-tracks associated with the messages...

Andy

 

[philskene]

You have my authority to proceed

"Being a complete Trainz novice, does that mean that I can proceed if the track section ahead is clear of AI trains according to the map?"

This is the Dispatcher. You have my authority to proceed as long as no other train is approaching.

Dispatcher out.

 

[norfolksouthern37]

That certainly used to be the case, but in 2010 the 'unsignalled' message appears to be a bit of a catch-all. There are a couple of threads more-or-less current on the subject, but I have definitely seen the message approaching a diverging junction from the trailing side where all sigs etc are in order, but the lever is simply set for the other route...

Andy

it is a bit of a catch all. i had explained in another thread there are only 2 possibilities once a signal has decided it doesnt know what to do. either it says "unsignalled", which is a condition that appears if it found a junction but nothing after it, or it says "line terminates", which is what happens when the track stops after it.