Cornfield meet, "Eastbound Merchandise," SLI Green River Sub

[INRDfan]

Hello all,

When running the activity "Eastbound Merchandise" on SLI's Green River Sub, I encountered a cornfield meet somewhere east of Agate. While running through a 70 MPH zone on single track, I encountered an advance approach indication, followed by approach, then restricting. To my dismay, an AI train came streaking around the curve and a cornfield meet occurred. The only way to avoid this was to restart from a previous save point prior to the last siding before the collision occurred.

I did this, changed the setting from "auto signal" to manual, and took the siding. A few minutes later, the AI passed on the main. I then changed it back to the "auto" setting, and I was given a clear indication. Any ideas what might cause this, or how to prevent it in the future? Is the cause possibly that my train might have been running ahead or behind of anticipated time?

[R. Steele]

More than likely, you'll have to open up the AE and look at the traffic paths, perhaps some adjustment is needed. Quite often activities written for MSTS have "work-arounds" that are not needed in OR. I'll try to run it this weekend, find an answer for you.

Meanwhile, someone else, may know the solution.

-Got a quick run in this morning...something is wrong here. Will follow-up later.

Okay, had an opportunity to run the activity and make a couple of minor changes, changed one AI path amd added the "ORTScontinue" line to the messages in the activity [ set to 15 seconds]. NOTE- if you use the MSTS AE to open the activity it will erase the "ORTScontinue" line.

Attached is zip of the ACT, SRV, PAT, & TRF files only. They all have been renamed with the suffix "-ORTS" so they should not overwrite any thing. You'll still have the original msts activity. Uses the same consists. Try it out.

East_Merch_ORTS.zip

[R. Steele]

I noticed there have been some downloads of the act files. Would appreciate some feedback concerning how they run. Any problems still remaining with the AI traffic?

[grncherry1]

I noticed there have been some downloads of the act files. Would appreciate some feedback concerning how they run. Any problems still remaining with the AI traffic?

I have downloaded the files and will run it on Friday. I'll report back after making the run. Thanks in advance.

[grncherry1]

I noticed there have been some downloads of the act files. Would appreciate some feedback concerning how they run. Any problems still remaining with the AI traffic?

Just ran the act and encountered the same problem as OP with new act.ORTS.Player train eastbound should have took the siding at Agate and held there until the westbound coal pulled the grade and passed. Instead the act allowed the player train to proceed past Agate siding and then encounter a stop at the intermediate signal between the sidings at Agate and Westwater creating a stand-off. The coal train was sitting on the main at Westwater and the west end switch at Westwater was set for the main as well.