Siding shunting

judith · Post by **judith** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 9:27 pm

When I drop off a freight into Dent siding (S & C 1930), the signal will not allow me to exit the siding from the direction I reversed in. If I try the same movement with a light engine, I can reverse in and the signal allows me to exit with no problem.

The freight fits into the siding OK and the reverse point is the same for light engine and with freight.

Am I doing something wrong?

Any suggestions please?

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 8:40 am

Have you checked in RE the location of the signal marker on the track - if your goods train only just fis it may still be fouling the signal.

judith · Post by **judith** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 2:55 pm

Martin,

You reverse into the siding past the signal, so the engine position is always the same engine light or with freight.

Any other ideas?

judith · Post by **judith** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 3:08 pm

Martin,

How do I find the exact place in the RE. It seem awful to use. Can I find the LAT and LONG on the route and use this to find the reverse point in RE? Or is there an easier way?

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 4:02 pm

Yes, hit 0 in the game to give you a compass heading and lat long, then you can navigate to that location in RE. But if the engine location is the same then it can't be the signal marker on the track... hmmmm... not sure. Anyone else help here?

LMSBlack5 · Post by **LMSBlack5** » Mon Aug 05, 2002 4:26 pm

Just to clarify - although the engine position is the same in both scenarios, with freight where is the engine located at the time the reverse point is activated? It could be that the rear of the train hits the reverse point before the engine clears the signal.

Ed

judith · Post by **judith** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:24 pm

Ed,

That's it! I adjusted the reverse points and it all works fine.

Thanks for the idea.

Judith

LMSBlack5 · Post by **LMSBlack5** » Thu Aug 08, 2002 9:27 pm

Glad to hear it worked. If you're plannig to upload your activity & want someone to test it out for you I'd be happy to do so.

Ed

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 12:48 pm

Hello judith well your activity was going really well till i got to dent then frame rates dropped to 4

the system crashed and got the error message

any ideas on this folks?

pete :drinking:

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 9:55 pm

Hows about re adjusting frame rate manually or get the latest athlon

its amazing very fast and very powerful the senery that slows your machine down requires a fast running processor to be kind to the frame rates. but as for that the cheapest and easiest is actually adjust frame rates to the highest level

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 7:35 am

well ive got 1.3 gz pent 4 64 megs nvidia 640 megs of ram i always get frame rates of 59 max 23 min soooooooo i dunno not had this problem before

pete

judith · Post by **judith** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 1:08 pm

Peter,

I've got an Athlon 1.3Ghz with 256 DDR Ram and an ATI 128Mg pro video card and it works fine.

Sorry, no other ideas.

Judith

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Tue Aug 13, 2002 5:05 pm

hmmmm just tried the act with out other AI traffic i get to dent home signal then i get the Dreaded msn message.....this has never happend before with any activity... oh well guess i cant run this one then

pete

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