Train passes through another train on Surfliner II Act

[ericson38]

I wrote an ACT for Surfliner II in MSTS editor that has a train leaving south from SLO, and a northbound from Guadalupe that leaves at the same time, so there is a crossing of trains just south of Grover Beach. I was going into and out of the Autopilot mode until close to the meet and failed to stop in time as the AI train was taking a turnout to the start of double track, south of the refinery lead. It could be a problem with the route, but taking that turnout normal in a trailing mode was done without signal protection (south facing), while the AI train (oil cans) had a proper signal. Anyway, as I failed to stop short of the turnout, occupied by the oil can train heading up to the refinery, I passed right through it, and since there was no signal there to violate, nothing happened, except that I kept moving along at 15 mph. As soon as I passed through the last car, that whole train disappeared. I had the MSTS compatible activities button activated. This is with the latest daily version of OR.

[R. Steele]

Regarding "train passing through another train":
Yep, that will happen, no code implemented in OR to simulate a crash - was a purposeful decision the OR team made with almost unanimous assent. That's what I have read in the threads. I have had similiar experiences, usually means I am not operating according to the "rules of the road".

So in real life operating a train like you did would cause an article in the local newspaper and lots of problems for yourself, and maybe more dire consequences. As it was, all you got for failure to stop was a bunch of shapes and textures merging!

I'm not ashamed to stay I have had it happen to me -- I got to watch the merger of Amtrak with a Quaker State oil train!

I'm not 100% positive but the disappearance was probably due to the merger of all those shapes. Unless a traffic path happened to end at that spot.