Gentlemen, Based on a model railroad's total car spotting locations, what would be a good percentage of cars on layout to start with so that it doesn't become...
Ed - A good figure to start with is 50% -- including sidings and yards. There's an option under <Cars><Functions> called <Siding Usage Analysis>. It takes a...
I have a dead end interchange track. The idea is to gather cars from a local yard as a transfer run, deliver all of them to the interchange, and pick up any...
Hi Ed, The first thing that comes to mind is to make this interchange track a "Staging Track". RailOp will "Take all cars" on a "Staging Track" So on the...
Ed - I'm not sure you given us enough information. However, the "Take all cars" option is set when editing a train. However, it applies only to a train...
You know, that's what I thought. I set up a train to run from the yard to the interchange and return, set the interchange track as staging, and every time I...
Phil, My yard is set up as if it were one track, but I don't want all the cars in the yard pulled, only all the cars on the interchange. The interchange is...
... the cars in the yard pulled, only all the cars on the interchange. The interchange is only one track anyway. I did change the designation to staging after...
... One other thing to check is that the button "no through cars" is checked. This will insure that the train will not pickup up cars at the initial station...
I first started to setup RailOPs on my laptop. I have entered a bunch of data ect but I need to continue the work on my desktop computer. I installed the...
Hi Gang, For those of you who might have the Train Player program too, this idea really helped me figure out routing. In Rail Ops you have to come up with...
TrainPlayer is a fun and helpful program I'm not trying to sell it, so don't get me wrong, but they have a free demo you can download and if you want to buy...
Ron All you need to do is a backup to a disk at your laptop. Take the disk to your desktop computer and start RailOp. Once RailOp is up and running, hit the...
We are in the early stages of setting up RailOp on our Club layout (since the layout is not completely built yet, that introduces challenges of its own, but...
... Once you have specified the types of cars each siding accepts (in the Locations list), the Siding Usage Analysis will list the number of industrial sidings...
Mark - Check the first and last columns on that report. The first column shows the number of cars you have now. The higher the value in the last column, the...
You don't need to "install" RailOp. I have more than one railroad that I use RailOp for, so I make a folder on my Flash Drive for each railroad and copy...
Hi George, I tried reversing the move by starting at rhe Interchange. RailOp took all the cars from the interchange (staging), dropped them in the yard, made...
From what I'm reading from your posts,I guess Rail Ops doesn't put DLL files throughout windows like so many other programs, that's why you can grab the whole...
Does the train have enough moves allowed to do what you want it to? I have a train on my railroad that does exactly what Ed K wants to do. The interchange...
Ron - You're quite correct. RailOP does NOT use DLL's. This was intentional, so that revisions could be supplied easily without worrying about separate DLL...
I setup a town with the interchange track as the only site. I did not make it an actual interchange to the program - just in name only. I control what gets...
... RailOp took all the cars from the interchange (staging), dropped them in the yard, made 1 local move, and returned to the interchange empty. Even if this...
Bob, That did the trick. Changing the interchange track to an industry brought 5 cars from the yard, picked up all cars on the interchange, dropped all five...
George, I don't actually have RailOp assign engines. My comment only reflected the logical sequence of what I wanted to accomplish. Since the interchange...
Bob, I had the same problem with an Interchange. I guess it is the "by definition" as opposed to "how we use it". I had to do the same thing, call it an...
... thing, ... industry. The problem is the difference between a dummy interchange and a live interchange. A dummy interchange is basically an industry like ...
Evening Folks, Would like to contact folks in Los Angeles and San Diego, California, and places in between... Looking for any model railroad layouts open to a...
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