Streamlines BNSF Seligman 2 Bad Day For Trains Activity Part 1

[angelsmike]

Hello,

Tried my first activity in Open Rails. Bad day for trains part 1 in BNSF Seligman 2. I could not get this one to work in MSTS because it would keep crashing the SIM.

In Open Rails, everything was fine until I got past Kingman and I noticed another train was coming at me head on. I had a green light and it is a portion of the route where the double tracks are separated a little bit. I decided to let the crash play out and was amazed there was no crash, even though my train was going about 20 mph. The other train was moving too although I do not know how fast. Instead of a crash, (sorry, derailment), my train actually COUPLED with the other train and started to push it back until my train lost steam, (so to speak), and started to reverse. How did that happen? Is that why it is a bad day for trains? You meet another one head on? My open rails version is 0.8.0.1251.

Anyone else have this bad day?

Thanks,

Michael

[Claude350]

Go to the download section of OR and get the latest experimental version. There are a lot of fixes that make OR better than the version that you're using.

[angelsmike]

So, it is a Open Rails issue and not a problem with the activity? Ok, I'll try that.

Would you recommend getting the most recent experimental version even though it is an experiment?

[baldwin]

Until the release of the next "stable" version, the experimentals are the way to go. Best to get one and stick with it for running activities because newer versions generally will not run older saves. You can run different versions of OR from different folders which will let you see what improvements are being made while sticking with one for normal activity running.

[angelsmike]

OK. Sounds good. That's what I will do.

Thanks for the help.