A wee bit of help here may not go astray !

[ka959]

Good afternoon anyone able to offer any help here...

I'm not too sure of the implications of this, but I've discovered that I've apparently actually lost the .eng file for the Flying Scotsman steam loco in MSTS. How it disappeared, I can't work it out, for the life of me ! Short of reinstalling MSTS, which I do not want to do, I just want to replace the file itself, so is there any simple way to get a replacement file, and only this file ? I'd like to request that someone might be kind enough to e-mail me the file in question, but if not possible, what else is there in the way of an alternative ? Thsnks for your time. Cheers.

Regards...

Jim McDermott

[gremlin1812]

Hi Jim, Just use your original install discs and select repair, worked for me once when I did some silly things.
Regards
Barrie

[casperdog]

Hi. If you put disc 1 in your drive, wait until the start screen opens and then close it, you can use 'my computer' to explore the disc. Open the Local Files folder and then Trains folder. Open Scotsman and copy the eng file
Cheers
Clive

[ka959]

Hi Jim, Just use your original install discs and select repair, worked for me once when I did some silly things.
Regards
Barrie

G'day, Barrie...

Yep, seems fair enough what you're saying. I did think it may have had a repair function, but what I'm worried about here, is that changes to the wagon & engine physics, from coupler break strength to brakes on steam locos to get rid of the annoying delay in getting the brakes to come fully off, and getting to the apply stage and all that, will possibly get overwritten, and waste all my time, plus other things. See my point ? Are you able to guarantee that the repair won't touch these things or not ? Cheers.

Regards...

Jim McDermott

[davejc64]

How did you actually notice the eng file was missing? Was it when you tried to run it in MSTS? or was it when you were looking for it in the trainset/scotsman folder? if so do you have trainstore installed?

[Lad491]

I was thinking about trainstore too which moves eng files into store if the loco isnt in use.

Assuming it isnt that though, you could backup your trainset folder somewhere, run the repair option, and if it does overwrite everything, just delete the fix version, put your old version back and continue searching for a solution. If it works without changing everything, then you can just delete the backup.

[gremlin1812]

Hi Jim, yes I see your point I would assume it would only replace anything missing but that's not for sure so as to be safe as Lad491 said backup your MSTS install (train simulator folder) then do the repair if your changes have been altered by the repair use the backup to over write the install train simulator folder and all alteration you made will go back and you will have the basic Scotsman eng file there as there is nothing to over write it. Worst case scenario is you just delete the train simulator folder and put back the backup and you are back where you started. But I'm sure that it will work.
Regards
Barrie

[jbilton]

Hi
You could download this

A1 'Pretty Polly' No. 60061 Steam Loco & Tender [1329777 bytes] - A1PPloco.zip File ID: 375 Date: 29 Dec 2001 - 1925 Downloads

And rename the eng file back to Scotsman.

Cheers
Jon