Getting routes to work

[landnrr]

I have recently D/Led two routes and I cannot get the scenarios to work. I get the following message every time I try to run a scenario "An essential is missing and Open Rails cannot continue." Anybody know how to solve this problem?

[derekmorton]

Post the OR log file on your desktop

[charland]

Did you download and install all the required rolling stock that's needed to run the activities?

Paul

[landnrr]

The 2 routes I D/Led were the ATSF Seligman Sub and the Whitefish 10. Neither one said anything about needing additional D/Ls.

[landnrailroader]

When I upload a route, I usually delete the activities except for the paths. When I get the mentioned error on a downloaded route I delete the activites, traffic, etc. contents, but keep the paths. Then I create my own. Not the best thing, but it works. landnrr, you must be another L&N fan. As "landnrailroader" my blood bleeds blue & beige and I have some more L&N routes in the works. I'm originally from Nashville, TN, now, thanks to CSX, I live in Jacksonville, FL.

[charland]

This is from the Readme file included in the first part of six of the route:

"The route has activities that use default rolling stock. The activities will not work
properly unless your default equipment has Bob Boudoin's physics ver 4.5 and
Joseph T Realmuto's friction 1.0. or better. Installers are included which will set
the physics to this level and reset them back to the origional default values."

If you are installing this in a stand alone Open Rails and do not have MSTS you would not have the default rolling stock needed to run the activities.

Paul :-)

[Don6218]

Interesting reading here. I am running and reinstalling a few "Older" routes and they almost all require Default Rolling Stock. I have it and do not like it, when I have so many better alternatives to choose from, most from here and E-T.

I usually spend about 15 minutes using Con Builder to modify the Consists and particularly the Locomotives. The BNSD40 and Dash9 have done their jobs, now to use the Better Quality and Cabviews as well as Sounds all in Open Rails. Once a "Consist" is Modified to my new standard it is automatically saved for the next time it is used, in that same route/activity-group.

From expert advice on here I have learned how to modify these elements to make my enjoyment better and have a new route/activity up and running properly in a very short time, without seeing all that Default Equipment.

[landnrr]

Yes Jerry, I have talked with you before. I am still trying to get your MILW routes going.

[conductorchris]

We are missing some information to help you solve your problem. That's why it was asked to post the error log. Your error message is incomplete too: An essential what is missing? If you know what is missing you can go find it and install it where it is supposed to be.
Christopher

[ebnertra000]

The routes you've downloaded, did they come with a file called installme.bat? If you don't have MSTS installed somewhere, you won't be getting certain files from default routes that are essential for OR to work. I've seen this happen when environment files and sigcfg and sigscr files aren't in a route. Probably others will trigger that error, too

[landnrailroader]

landnrr,

Be sure to use the RMD-East and RMD-West for the Rocky Mountain division. Those are my original routes,
combined and "super detailed" by Lukas Lussar. The "GAP" is my own. The MCOA1 is by Simon Van de Laak,
completed by me, and the MCOA2 is mine. Soon, the entire Pacific Extension will be in the library although
some of the parts will be in the "incomplete routes" category where I have done the track and digitized the
roads. The Aberdeen Division will be interesting in that there will be some extra digitizing & notes in it, so
that a rabid BNSF fan can bring most of that line up to current BNSF standards. It is still in use for some
250 miles from Mobridge, SD to Terry, MT. My "incompletes" list will have about 8 or 9 routes in it, unless
at 80, I get my last Form A & running orders first. A friend in Tennessee (Rockwood) has done the Corbin
to Knoxville line but wants me to polish it, so when I get it, I will do that. My "list" includes Louisville to
Nashville, Evansville to Nashville, and Nashville to Chattanooga. Right now I am boning up on flowers so I
can do a better job as a docent next summer on the C&TS. Botany is not my "thing" but history & geology
are. Most of the riders get a blast when I tell them, that it was a bit warmer around these parts, 35 million
years or so ago, when more than 100 volcanos were doing their thing------. Or the safety briefing when I
tell the children to please not put hands & heads out the windows because clearances are close and I would
rather you return home with the same appendages you came to New Mexico with-----.

J. H. Sullivan

[landnrailroader]

By all means check this out. Probably 90% of the routes come with a installme.bat file. What I do, and suggest others do,
is have a basic install of MSTS somewhere on the old PC. First put the new route there, and run the installme.bat file
and add anything else that is required. I get a lot of questions about "M-tracks" for example. I just wish the creator had
done some #10 turnouts for it, as well as more curve values, but it is what it is. Once the route works there, you can
move it to someplace else to run it with ORTS if you like, but if you do, the global file still has to have all the odds and
ends, X-tracks, M-tracks, NewRoads etc.

J.H. Sullivan

[landnrr]

How do I find the error log? Also, I assume I have MSTS as other older routes are working.

[crstagg]

How do I find the error log? Also, I assume I have MSTS as other older routes are working.

The file is a TXT file and the filename is "OpenRailsLog". It is stored on your Desktop ( also located in the folder C:\Users"YourName"\Desktop ) unless you have modified the registry to have Open Rails store it in another place. It overwrites the previous OpenRailsLog.txt so you only have the one from the latest run of ORTS.

"older routes" is an ambiguous term. Do you meant the Default Routes, i.e. those routes that get installed from the MSTS CDs (USA1&2, Eurpoe1&2, and Japan1&2)? Or do you mean 15 year old routes that you downloaded from Trainsim.com?

[landnrr]

I did not see an installme.bat with either d/l. Here is what showed up when I got the error message:"Cprogram files(x86) Microsoft Games|Train Simulator\ROUTES\Whitefish 7-RR\ENVFILES\sun.env"