Eds Trains SW1500

[dedwa15237]

Gang,

I just acquired Eds Trains SW1500 few years ago and had them painted in Conrail and in Quality as well, paint myself.. I ran OR with the most common version, on Conrail Indy, in which I adore.. I have been switching some locals around the vicinity, and I am switching from a long hood SW1500 and had to run the train around to the other end and return back to the yard. What I am having an issue is, how and which correct button would put me in the engineer's seat looking cab view back? As you all know SW1500's have a long hood front and a long flat window and platform back. I tried Ottos way to use the specific key, but I'd rather being in the cab seat and window taking my train backwards with a full view.. Any tricks?

Thanks

[Tiger Trains]

Creating a reverse cab is one way for it, did that with my Trackmobile Titan using the Bin Key #1, not sure if OR uses Bin controls thou, need to have a separate set of aces for the views thou Dave. Or having a completely new .cvf for a reverse running that customer can switch out to with. The freeware cabviews in the library are all long hood.

[baldwin]

Yes. Open Rails uses multiple cab views. The keys used are listed. Press F1 in game for a list, or use Options before running an activity. The key list is there as well. The reverse cabview is set up and then named with _rv in the name, e.g. SW1500_rv.cvf.

[slipperman]

Hi,
There's a utility in the file library for creating a reverse cabview : rvcvfmak.zip It creates a new cabview with suffix _rv added to the original file's name.

Cheers,
Ged

[baldwin]

I seem to recall at some time in the past there was a switcher cab that had the front view across the cab with right looking longhood and left looking back. That could do the job without needed a reverse view.

[dedwa15237]

Thanks gents! I will try to take a look at it tonight. Appreciated all the inputs you all have given to me. Will follow up with comments..

Thank you