blueodessey
Well-known member
New England merge progress
Egad time flies when your busy, Good Evening all. It is Monday night and has been a busy week.
Let me see, what have I been up too...Well, first and foremost, been busy trying to heal up my
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Faciitus&atb=v207-1&ia=web
in English, damaged Tendon on the bottom of the Heal, and you don't want to ever, and I mean ever have anything like this!
So it is finally after 6 days of basically staying off my foot and some visits to my Chiropractor, it is starting to heal a bit. I broke down and ordered some new Tennis Shoes, now why would I do that when I am in Pain a good part of the time.
Well one of the causes of the condition, I am in, wearing old worn out shoes, doing yard work, instead of throwing them away, and getting good solid fitting Work Shoes, yes that is definitely part of the Cause here.
Sometimes being too Cheap, is not a smart thing to due, coupled with old Age......
The other thing is, I didn't know the symptoms of this Tendon issue, I have had it several times over the years, but never like this, and didn't recognize the signs of Tendon Damage, just thought I had done too much Weekend Warrior stuff.
So there you have it. I am now Plantar Faciitus Trained, and will be sure to be more careful how I treat my poor ole Feet.......
Now lets move over to some more pleasant things:
I have seen a fair amount of Derailments in my time, they always hold my interest in special clean up crews and the tenacity of Railroads to get the line open at all costs.
Check out this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLeJWG9hAg
and some more Derailments here........One of the Companies I spoke about who handles Derailments and rebuild projects was R J Corman. A fascinating story on how to do it right and install pride in workmanship......
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=r+j+corman+railroad
And check out one of the steepest Grade RR's in the US and what they did to solve runaway issues.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xNus37RhWA
My latest New England Merge Antics taught me some good lessons about Junction and Signal Numbering sequences and what their effect on Trainz can be if your not paying attention.
So here is the drill recap, if you take and make a Test Route, and make one junction, it will start out with the Number 0, then 1, 2, 3, etc as you add more Junctions and Signals to your Route.
Now if you don't pay attention, and merge 6-7 or more Routes together, Merging the Route CDP's and not pay attention to what the Numbers are like for each of those Routes, well, you could run into a possible number like this2,455,679 or something worse, 4.789.551, Rounded off that is 4.8 Million number and any new numbers will be starting frome 4.789.552 and upwards.
When I think about Numbers for Rolling Stock with high spreads of say 10-30 Thousand and see what happened to TANE and TRS19, you run into CTD's or crashed math computational errors, so it kind of makes sense to me, in the same vain of thought, that Trainz doesn't like have to deal with extra large numerical ID's with signals and junctions. I only found this out by mistake, I kept losing my Signal Settings on my Signals, they would go back to default, not all Signals but say 50 or so out of 1300 Hundred Signals I had operational. I kept going back and having to reset them continuously for several weeks. Once started at Zero and renumbered all my Signals and Junctions, TRS19 stopped messing with my Signal Settings.
My highest number is 1325 on Signals, and about 400 or so on Junction names. It seems to be holding now, I haven't had an issue from what I can see. Took about week to 10 days of several hours to rename everything numerically. And I also changed the File Saving from "SAVE" to "SAVE AS" I don't know if that was part of the problem or not. But so far so good, and it seems my Merged Route operates more stable.....
Tonight will run some pictures of New England Merge.
Working in my new Rail Sort yard here, I am check curve radius, and Signal Aspects.
This Passenger Station stop only had one track, which would need to be shared with a lot of Freight movement from the North Yard Limits, I added a bypass track and two industrial feeds, we have lots of Oil and other Industrial Team tracks, so I needed to have a dedicated track for the Passenger Trains, and it works flawlessly.
My little Smokies are bringing back some empties for the Yard Sort operations.
CNR Units running some Tankers in for Fueling.
Three Freights came in from different directions, with single Tracking it had before, we would had a near Cornfield Meet, now with extra bypass tracks, only one train needs to delay for few minutes of Dwell time. Within 15 mins, all trains were let in, other one headed out to next city 10 miles away. No complaints from Dispatch Operations.
Looking over the yard now, everything is aligned and we can handle more trains if they show up......
Over in this area, running some Farming Operations, with Grain Silos Etc.
In this area of the Merge, I put in a small 9 tile Rte that had dedicated Strip Mining Operation, not too large, just right for my needs.......
Well I think that'll do it for now, enjoy your week, and Happy Fathers Day this weekend as well......
Egad time flies when your busy, Good Evening all. It is Monday night and has been a busy week.
Let me see, what have I been up too...Well, first and foremost, been busy trying to heal up my
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Faciitus&atb=v207-1&ia=web
in English, damaged Tendon on the bottom of the Heal, and you don't want to ever, and I mean ever have anything like this!
So it is finally after 6 days of basically staying off my foot and some visits to my Chiropractor, it is starting to heal a bit. I broke down and ordered some new Tennis Shoes, now why would I do that when I am in Pain a good part of the time.
Well one of the causes of the condition, I am in, wearing old worn out shoes, doing yard work, instead of throwing them away, and getting good solid fitting Work Shoes, yes that is definitely part of the Cause here.
Sometimes being too Cheap, is not a smart thing to due, coupled with old Age......
The other thing is, I didn't know the symptoms of this Tendon issue, I have had it several times over the years, but never like this, and didn't recognize the signs of Tendon Damage, just thought I had done too much Weekend Warrior stuff.
So there you have it. I am now Plantar Faciitus Trained, and will be sure to be more careful how I treat my poor ole Feet.......
Now lets move over to some more pleasant things:
I have seen a fair amount of Derailments in my time, they always hold my interest in special clean up crews and the tenacity of Railroads to get the line open at all costs.
Check out this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLeJWG9hAg
and some more Derailments here........One of the Companies I spoke about who handles Derailments and rebuild projects was R J Corman. A fascinating story on how to do it right and install pride in workmanship......
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=r+j+corman+railroad
And check out one of the steepest Grade RR's in the US and what they did to solve runaway issues.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xNus37RhWA
My latest New England Merge Antics taught me some good lessons about Junction and Signal Numbering sequences and what their effect on Trainz can be if your not paying attention.
So here is the drill recap, if you take and make a Test Route, and make one junction, it will start out with the Number 0, then 1, 2, 3, etc as you add more Junctions and Signals to your Route.
Now if you don't pay attention, and merge 6-7 or more Routes together, Merging the Route CDP's and not pay attention to what the Numbers are like for each of those Routes, well, you could run into a possible number like this2,455,679 or something worse, 4.789.551, Rounded off that is 4.8 Million number and any new numbers will be starting frome 4.789.552 and upwards.
When I think about Numbers for Rolling Stock with high spreads of say 10-30 Thousand and see what happened to TANE and TRS19, you run into CTD's or crashed math computational errors, so it kind of makes sense to me, in the same vain of thought, that Trainz doesn't like have to deal with extra large numerical ID's with signals and junctions. I only found this out by mistake, I kept losing my Signal Settings on my Signals, they would go back to default, not all Signals but say 50 or so out of 1300 Hundred Signals I had operational. I kept going back and having to reset them continuously for several weeks. Once started at Zero and renumbered all my Signals and Junctions, TRS19 stopped messing with my Signal Settings.
My highest number is 1325 on Signals, and about 400 or so on Junction names. It seems to be holding now, I haven't had an issue from what I can see. Took about week to 10 days of several hours to rename everything numerically. And I also changed the File Saving from "SAVE" to "SAVE AS" I don't know if that was part of the problem or not. But so far so good, and it seems my Merged Route operates more stable.....
Tonight will run some pictures of New England Merge.
Working in my new Rail Sort yard here, I am check curve radius, and Signal Aspects.
This Passenger Station stop only had one track, which would need to be shared with a lot of Freight movement from the North Yard Limits, I added a bypass track and two industrial feeds, we have lots of Oil and other Industrial Team tracks, so I needed to have a dedicated track for the Passenger Trains, and it works flawlessly.
My little Smokies are bringing back some empties for the Yard Sort operations.
CNR Units running some Tankers in for Fueling.
Three Freights came in from different directions, with single Tracking it had before, we would had a near Cornfield Meet, now with extra bypass tracks, only one train needs to delay for few minutes of Dwell time. Within 15 mins, all trains were let in, other one headed out to next city 10 miles away. No complaints from Dispatch Operations.
Looking over the yard now, everything is aligned and we can handle more trains if they show up......
Over in this area, running some Farming Operations, with Grain Silos Etc.
In this area of the Merge, I put in a small 9 tile Rte that had dedicated Strip Mining Operation, not too large, just right for my needs.......
Well I think that'll do it for now, enjoy your week, and Happy Fathers Day this weekend as well......
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