I have worked fairly diligently at setting up RailOp for use on the Ottawa Valley Garden Railway Society railroad ... and in a club setting, Autobuild is...
Doug - The max train length figures, as edited into the Routes File, are intended to show the limitations imposed by the layout (length of passing sidings,...
Phil You wrote "Autobuild will almost never build a train that exceeds any of the train length or tonnage limits between any two cities." I regularly encounter...
... of the freights, setting the max lengths lower for the way freights. That's not a thing I would recommend, however. ... What I would do is make a route for...
Doug - What I wrote before still goes! The "Need additional power" warning indeed comes only if you assign an engine that doesn't have sufficient power going...
Thanks guys ... it seems that there are several ways to achieve this. I had been tricking RailOp by setting the length of the usually assigned loco to...
Hi All, I somehow missed the first part of this string, but it sounds like you're trying to limit the length of a train. I set the maximum length of my trains...
Hello all, I am new to the group. Six members of my operating club have recently purchased RO and several of us have the program installed on two PC's (one in...
To: Phil Happy to read that you have purchased RailOp, you have made a great choice for layout logistics/operations software. If you have not purchased the...
Phil - Welcome to the group! The short simple answer to your question is "All of the files in the RailOP Data folder (directory)". A better answer is to be...
Thanks Phil, I am setup to show file extensions. Bob Young recommended using the Backup/Restore feature as well. I will try both ways at anyway and they sound...
I am starting a new layout and will have over 600 cars to input into RailOp. What tells me where to put the cars on the physical layout in the beginning? ...
Hi Phil, Where you put the cars to start off is up to you. You will just need to tell the program where you did put them. Deb Fifield ... From: "Phil Euper"...
I don't understand.....aren't there some common sense guide lines, like don't put a grain hopper on an oil company siding? Do we fill up each siding of each...
yes...here is what I did.....you decide what kind of car and how many you want at each siding ....then put them there physically ....then tell the RailOp "Car"...
To: Phil When you create your 'cars' you can specify a 'type' and 'length'. Then when you set up your 'Locations' you can specify siding length, total...
Phil, Another point, after you decide what types of cars can go to which sidings, routes, etc, you don't want to fill up your sidings with cars. You can fill...
Phil - I suspect you'll get answers from other users as to how to locate your cars, so I won't go there unless requested. I WOULD suggest that you learn to use...
To: Bill, Phil As I stated earlier, "Let your imagination soar." Bob Young Clinton, Ontario, Canada Canada's Other West Coast E'Mail: bob.young@... ...
I know how to get into the help system! I just haven't found any of the answers to my questions, probably because I don't how to phrase the question correctly...
Phil: I have a "fiddle yard" which consists of 9 stub ended tracks each of which will hold 15-20 cars. When "autobuild" builds a train, I simply 0-5-0 each...
Jim, Exactly as I plan to operate both of my staging yards......I have 8 sliding drawers built under the lower level bench work, as I start "Unpacking" cars I...
... additional cars in a drawer, box etc. and tell RailOp that the drawer/box is track 10 or whatever, in your terminal/fiddle yard. ... Just don't accidentaly...
Okay George, now that you raised the issue, can you tell us, (there are 6 new users of RO in my operating group), what are the "Options" you mention that would...
To: Phil Do not get the wrong impression with regard to RailOp functionality. RailOp will do what **you** tell it to do with the **data** that **you** ...
... are 6 ... mention ... When you design a new train using the Add Train button on the train page, there is an option "Stage from any track". If you have...
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