https://trainsim.com/forums/ en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:42:17 GMT vBulletin 60 https://trainsim.com/forums/images/misc/rss.png https://trainsim.com/forums/ https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2352056-tender-coal-please Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:54:15 GMT
When starting an Activity "the Twins to Shefffield in Thames Trent V.3. I get the message:-

"Tender Coal empty" your Loco will fail.

How do I Get around this please?

Thanks

Paul.]]> Open Rails Discussion and Help pcohen https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2352056-tender-coal-please https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-modeling-and-physics/2352031-unofficial-derailment-code-modification Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:23:18 GMT Open Rails Modeling and Physics UP6706 https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-modeling-and-physics/2352031-unofficial-derailment-code-modification https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/payware-support-forums/2352027-labor-day-weekend-sale Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:53:50 GMT Labor Day Weekend Sale!!!
TTLaborDaySale26.jpg MLTLaborDaySale26.jpg TMTLABORDAY26.jpg]]> Payware Support Forums TorontoMainlineTrains https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/payware-support-forums/2352027-labor-day-weekend-sale https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2352002-peculiar-error Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:18:24 GMT Friends, As I was laying roads and some streets through Munfordville, KY I noticed something odd. At some point, a series of HWY 500M curve pieces...
As I was laying roads and some streets through Munfordville, KY I noticed something odd. At some point, a series of HWY 500M curve pieces had been automatically placed along the track line for a distance of about 3 miles in both directions. These were all in groups of 4, i.e. 4 pieces one atop the other like the image shown. I first thought that maybe these would end at the edge of the world tile(file) but no, they extended well into the 3rd world tile(file) in both directions. Anyone see this or have an idea what would cause it. The solution was simple, but time consuming - just manually delete all of them. You should not edit the world files because these are linked to the roads database. And as I deleted, I did a save 3 or 4 times too.

Jerry ERROR-09-03-26.jpg]]> Open Rails Route Projects and Questions landnrailroader https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2352002-peculiar-error https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-modeling-and-physics/2351979-emulate-the-3d-canvas-engineer-tool Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:49:57 GMT Way back when, Amabilis created some options in their 3D Canvas/Crafter tool that made getting started in modeling a little bit easier. I was called...
Well, I needed a break from all of the other things I'm working on (I mean, self-created bugs I'm fixing, since I'm what real programmers would call a "horrible programmer") so I decided to look into emulating this long-forgotten and lost feature now that Amabilis is a thing of the past. It's just barely working... but it will create a Wavefront OBJ file for import into Blender.

So what am I talking about... well, it's this:
mstsengineer.jpg



Right now, it's a standalone item, not a Blender add-on. Maybe someday it could be; we will see.


And here is the result of that form fill-out in blender.




pacific.jpg​

There is a lot more to do. And as usual, I'm probably only doing this mostly for myself... but I just hated seeing things we used in the past unavailable to us today.

PS: Ok, maybe just me and Scott


]]> Open Rails Modeling and Physics pwillard https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-modeling-and-physics/2351979-emulate-the-3d-canvas-engineer-tool https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351749-mullan-pass-timetable-error Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:32:23 GMT
"An essential file is missing and OpenRails cannot continue."
C:\OpenRails\Trains\trainset\comon.inc\fleet\stand ard_freight_coupler

I went to the common.inc and found the standard_freight_coupler.inc file in the folder. Has anybody else come across this before?

]]> Open Rails Discussion and Help 1996fan https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351749-mullan-pass-timetable-error https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351680-allen-norton-passing Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:13:22 GMT
I will start out by saying being from New York I knew he had a soft spot for both the B&O and Pennsylvania RRs as you can tell by his models but he also branched out to do diesel locomotives and other railroads throughout the years.

I first met Allen many years ago on the forums here when I first started building my own models. Not knowing a clue on how to work TSM or what I was doing he was kind enough to helped then teen me many times on my projects including my MILW 261 locomotive. He taught me many things in TSM that I still use today. Yes I know I have not transferred over to the dark side of Blender but that will come at some point I am sure.

We became friends and would talk about our jobs, life in general, his modeling skills not only for MSTS and Open Rails but also model railroading as well along with other stuff from time to time. He was the one that pushed me and really helped me become the modeler I am today. Many times I would help him with sounds for his models as that was not his expertise and other things for his projects as well over the years but drifted apart the last few years as he wasn't as active in recent years.

I have had not heard from him for a few years and noticed he had not been active on either Trainsim or Elvastower since about 2024 so I got curious. I even tried e-mailing him a couple of times just to see how he was doing with no response. Now I am not sure if he had been in bad health for some time or if he just didn't get on the forums and check his e-mail so I decided to look up his name and sure enough I came across his obituary.

Thanks again Allen for all you did for the community and helping me with my projects over the years. Let the High Greens light your way!

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries...ry?id=61798716

]]> Open Rails Discussion and Help BrandonS261 https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351680-allen-norton-passing https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351668-totally-confused-with-ir-vijayawadavishakapatnamandvijayanagaram2-route Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:12:07 GMT 1) vijayawadavishakapatnamandvijayanagaram
2) vijayawadavishakapatnamandvijayanagaram2
3) vijayawadavishakapatnamandbrahmapur
4) vijayawadavishakapatnamandbrahmapur2

How is the route to be assembled????? Start with the #1 and 3 downloads, then overwrite with the "part 2" files #2 and 4 downloads, all in the same folder or are the 4 files separate revisions of the same route???? Instructions are far from clear, so anyone who can help is appreciated, as from what I tried running it looks like a well done route worth using.


Any help appreciated
Doug]]> Open Rails Route Projects and Questions bootednancy https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351668-totally-confused-with-ir-vijayawadavishakapatnamandvijayanagaram2-route https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/tsre-route-editor/2351642-tutorials-you-can-t-understand Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:59:52 GMT TSRE Route Editor praynes https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/tsre-route-editor/2351642-tutorials-you-can-t-understand https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351577-eastern-north-carolina-route Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:12:03 GMT Alrighty, folks. For the sake of since I am now a California escapee, I have decided to tackle a big area, the Eastern half of North Carolina. ... Seeing as how much older the NCRR (North Carolina Railroad) route is, I decided at first that I was going to focus my attention to the Fayetteville area, since I'm stationed in the area. But as I started figuring out kml files, I decided to do as much of a chunk of the eastern half of the state, but realized I should include the NCRR as well, and include some of the states shortline roads, namely ACWR, A&R, RFCS, and CLNA.
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Starting in Fayetteville proper, here's a view looking from the station north, missing some crossover switches.
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Finished adding the crossover.
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Anyways, my plan is to start here and work my way north to the state line with VA, and south to the state line near Pembroke - midway between Pembroke, NC and Dillon, SC. More to follow.]]> Open Rails Route Projects and Questions demando https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351577-eastern-north-carolina-route https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351440-or-object-texture-issues Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:37:24 GMT Okay can someone explain these, note I am running OR 1.4 First why does OR use snow textures on objects that are coded 257 for night textures and... First why does OR use snow textures on objects that are coded 257 for night textures and day textures only? Not the worst case but...why???

Now my real issue: Testing my Route that I'm work on, I decided to do a test run in Winter clear.
Two of my own buildings have textures not showing in daytime Winter.

All buildings with arrows are my own designs all are coded 257: Summer clear run:
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Winter Day: Red arrows textures not showing
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Winter night:
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Also there aer no errors reported in the OR log, it's clean.

Anyone one have any idea why these textures aren't showing in Winter day, clear or snow. Thanks in advance.]]> Open Rails Discussion and Help oper190 https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351440-or-object-texture-issues https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351425-coming-next Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:08:47 GMT
Some explanation of names, in case confusion occurs. In the beginning, about 1850 or so, this line was referred as the Louisville & Nashville main stem. There was also the Bardstown branch and the Lebanon branch, and later the Memphis line. The Glasgow RR appears as a branch but was really a independent company that depended on the L&N for crews and equipment and then was later owned by the L&N, now CSX. Even in the 1940s/50s when I was a budding railfan and my uncle was a engineer on the line, he referred to it as the L&N Main Stem, 1st & 2nd subdivisions. The break was Bowling Green, KY, really Memphis Jct. Then it was also called the Louisville Division, 1st & 2nd subs. Under SCL Family lines it was the Louisville Division, "000" line. And under CSX it is the Mainline Sub. and I am not sure what division it is part of. Mileposts all the way from Louisville to Mobile and I think also New Orleans have the "000" prefix. Lines off of that have prefixes like "00H" for the Henderson Sub. (formerly division) between Evansville & Nashville (Amqui Jct.). While the "000" line goes through Nashville downtown and was the passenger line, through freight trains turned off at Maplewood, north of downtown and followed the "0BA" line to Radnor Yard and beyond to Brentwood. As a part of this and at least 3 other lines, if I remain upright long enough, I will include the Nashville Terminal which has tracks as accurate as I could make them and most major roads & streets. Radnor Yard is "faked in". There is a personal story about Radnor.

In 1992 or so, a very fine man, now deceased, was made Chief Engr. M/W at CSX and he found out that I could do pie charts etc. on a CAD system so he asked if I could shade in parts of a major yard that they were going to do maintenance on. For example, there might be 56 tracks in the classification "bowl" and he wanted to take them out of service for repair, 7 at a time, so 7x8 = 56. He said he wanted to do Radnor, and did did I need a map to go by. "No sir, I watched them build that yard back in 1954". My mother collected antiques and her favorite dealer lived about 1/2 block west of a bridge over nearly the top of the hump. His name was Jerry too and we attended the same church for some 18 years until he passed a few years ago. His wife still attends and gets a hug every week from me and my wife.

There will be a bungalow at every active road crossing, and control point. There will also be the currently correct signage at every passively protected crossing. All mileposts will be present.

Jerry]]> Open Rails Route Projects and Questions landnrailroader https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351425-coming-next https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351429-problem-copying-and-deleting-please Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:54:55 GMT Open Rails Discussion and Help pcohen https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351429-problem-copying-and-deleting-please https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351329-f6-key-ineffective Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:23:23 GMT Open Rails Discussion and Help Kent-2 https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-discussion/2351329-f6-key-ineffective https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351328-knoxville-div-l-n-incomplete Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:31:49 GMT
The mine was at the end of the Tackett Creek spur, off the Clear Fork Branch. This branch was originally started by the L&N and then acquired by Southern. So the train ran 14 miles +- from the mine to the junction with the Clear Fork Branch. From there it ran a few miles more or less west before going through a tunnel on a sharp (8 degree) curve and coming out at Holton, the junction with the L&N line from Corbin to Knoxville. From there it ran north a few miles to CP Lot where it turned west to Jellico, TN and then south to Clinton, TN. At that point it turned southeast to Knoxville. The Clear Fork branch extends east from the ARCO Jct. to Fonde, KY where there were at least two coal operation as late as 1967 but now closed and the line is abandoned, or at least out of service east of Clairfield. At Clairfield, the short Straight Creek spur leads to coal mine that was the last operational mine in TN when it closed around 2002. A new mine is being developed in the area and from what I understand, it will be served out of Middlesboro, KY.

Maybe Kenny will grab this one and detail it out. He does great work doing it. He also has another of my unreleased routes and I need to find out if he is doing anything with it because I would like to improve on it.

Jerry Sullivan]]> Open Rails Route Projects and Questions landnrailroader https://trainsim.com/forums/forum/open-rails/open-rails-route-projects-and-questions/2351328-knoxville-div-l-n-incomplete