I have 2 questions: What do I do when I see a hotbox message so I don't get thrown out of the program when I respond to it? Can overhead traffic be viable...
1935
jw@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:51 pm
I am printing out the paper work for our club railroad and was wondering how some of you people are printing yours. I printed two copies of the switchlist...
1936
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 2, 2001 2:21 am
... Trains going through staging should change waybills. The traffic needs to flow from one staging region to an different staging region. The interchange...
1937
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 3, 2001 7:17 am
I just noticed that I have trains showing the direction "west" on my schedule ,yet print out they run west to east instead of the correct east to west. How do...
1938
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 3, 2001 4:59 pm
Well, all my data has gone corrupt again. No financials happening, all cars have mysteriously unloaded themselves three times in the last week, and now when I...
1939
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 3, 2001 5:27 pm
Jim said it was a two week vacation / job hunting trip. Look for him after next weekend. Howard...
1940
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 3, 2001 6:07 pm
OK, Howard, thanks.... -- Jim <sadly mopes his way back into the shadows>...
1941
KerryDel@...
Jul 4, 2001 3:43 am
How do I define a team track? The commodity could be anything. Do I have to 2 dozen waybills to list all the possibilities? Should this be set up as a "y"...
1942
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 4, 2001 11:28 am
... A Team Track is just another industry. Thus you would have to set up various waybills to ship that assortment of commodities. This is a good place to use...
1943
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 4, 2001 12:18 pm
How does this work? I'm at a loss here! JohnGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com [Non-text portions of this message...
1944
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 4, 2001 2:54 pm
There is no reason that the "y" track can't also be the team track.... I do this on my railroad as I have a turn that operates between to towns and in order to...
1945
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 4, 2001 3:21 pm
Once you have all your towns entered with siding lengths, distance intervals (remember a station interval of "0" means double track), the program will...
1946
m_robin@...
Jul 5, 2001 12:32 pm
... Jim: Where do you select the type of operation, i.e. TWC, MBS, DTC, VCS, T&TO, etc.> Max email: m_robin@... smail: Max S. Robin, P.E. Cheat...
1947
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 5, 2001 12:42 pm
m ... Max, Look under Transportation, Change Operating Conditions Select the dropdown list at dispatching. Howard...
1948
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 5, 2001 2:35 pm
Under the Transportation pull-down. Select Change the Operating Conditions... ... -- 73 de Jim, KU0G Chairman/Coordinator Kansas City APRS Working Group,...
1949
m_robin@...
Jul 5, 2001 3:28 pm
Thanks to all who responded to my request for info. on setting type of dispatching. Been so long since I set T&TO that I simply forgot where to go!! Age does...
1950
John Boronski
johnb@...
Jul 5, 2001 8:30 pm
Jim & group I run an actual railroad. if you run a computer simulation, then you never see this problem. I do not know how to fix the following problems! 1....
1951
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 6, 2001 8:30 am
This may be a silly question, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can. Is there an ideal number of waybills for each car or is this variable by the industries...
1952
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 6, 2001 12:20 pm
The "tutorial" was fine. It's me that is thick as a brick. I did get 1 train to show correctly on the screen but nothing else gets past turning "red"? Is the...
1953
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 6, 2001 9:05 pm
Actually, the trains won't move until the next train ahead of them clears and you DO have to do it manually through the OS routine. To clear the blocks ahead,...
1954
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 8, 2001 9:34 pm
Is it usual for "protrak" to assign cars to industries and thereby restricting them to a load or an industry? John VGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer...
1955
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 9, 2001 12:33 am
... No usualy. Start with and cars unrestricted and then if necessary place restrictions on them. Howard...
1956
John Vecchiarelli
jav1020@...
Jul 9, 2001 12:07 pm
Two more questions: Does anyone have an explanation for why I have waybills made to go from an interchange to a customer, They never get there? I have many...
1957
jw@...
Jul 10, 2001 10:36 pm
Anyone got the answer to this: We ran our first club session Sunday after working on this for a year and one of the problems we have is when cars are dropped...
1958
Howard R. Garner
hrgarner@...
Jul 10, 2001 11:06 pm
... Jim, The Yard Information System will handle this when it gets done. Jim Duncan has played with this more then I have and may have better ideas. For now...
1959
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 11, 2001 4:13 am
It SHOULD be on the yard tag list (under Yardmaster options). BUT.... You have to have all your yard tracks set up with assigned train blocks which is done...
1960
Jim Duncan
ku0g@...
Jul 11, 2001 4:24 am
Another point that Howard made, and I forgot to include, is that the YIS is still "work in progress". All of my tag lists show "shove to track 1" (version...
1961
Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Jul 13, 2001 3:22 pm
John Vecchiarelli, ... Switching jobs, such as turns usually run in daylight hours for reasons of safety and easier working. You can read the switchlists and...
1962
Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Jul 13, 2001 3:24 pm
John Vecchiarelli, ... 1. Some models have been made with incorrect stenciling on them. Particularly models put out before the early 80s. You can check that...
1963
Jim Moir
moir5sdr@...
Jul 13, 2001 7:25 pm
Jim Duncan, ... The finances are reporting at an OR of 999 (all your cars are empty and not generating any income), which is plotted at 999 and then...
