Northeast Corridor, Surfliner, and other real-world timetables

[Shawmut]

Folks, if you just want to play my timetables, there's no need to touch autotable.exe. You can download ready-made .timetable-or files from here. (GitHub sign-in required, unfortunately; it's not up to me. I can upload to somewhere else by request.) autotable is for developers. You would use it to modify information that's specified in the base recipe, like consist and path names, station wait times, and speed limits - or to build a new timetable for another route.

Was I perhaps not clear enough in the repository text? Do you think I should clarify?

Oddly enough, and even though I do have a GitHub account, when I click on your "here" link I just get a list of actions you've done by date and time. If I go to <>Code and click on the big green Download button, the resulting zip file does NOT have the individual .timetable-or files, just the timetablelist-or file plus the individual .yaml files. So for example, for USA1A you find the All Northeast Corridor.timetablelist-or file, plus the individual .yaml files like "Amtrak - Fri Aug 2018.yaml."

So that's why I used autotable, and I have to say following your instructions it works to a "T" ... very impressive. Like user "curley" this has given me lots of ideas and using autotable is really very, very easy.

But I'll be doggone if I can find those ready-made timetable-or files ...

David

[rman]

Oddly enough, and even though I do have a GitHub account, when I click on your "here" link I just get a list of actions you've done by date and time. If I go to <>Code and click on the big green Download button, the resulting zip file does NOT have the individual .timetable-or files, just the timetablelist-or file plus the individual .yaml files.

You were almost there! You want to select the latest commit and download the "All timetables" artifact.

[Shawmut]

You were almost there! You want to select the latest commit and download the "All timetables" artifact.

Ah, thanks, Ryan; see it now. Almost feels like cheating getting them ready made

Quick question: what do the 2 Dash9's coupled together represent? I've been switching out the default stock for some actual MARC stock and would like to do the same for these.

Thanks,

David

[rman]

No, this is just the base game. Guess I can make a mini-route and try that.

So, i guess if you don't have mini-route, it will not work?

Okay, so I've figured out the issue - autotable's loader was erroring out if you didn't have an MSTS data folder that was perfectly structured. So if you had a stray folder in your ROUTES\ folder, for example, you were sunk. It had nothing to do with mini-routes versus full installs.

I have released a hotfix to fix the issue. Hopefully, the program will now work for both of you.

I like the idea and it would be great to use on some routes like Cajon 4.2 and heavy commuter routes like some of the UK and Indian Railways ones, just a little interesting that it seems to only work on mini-routes.

Stay tuned, I have a Cajon Pass timetable in the works.

Also, side note - the GTFS format has seen scant adoption outside of North America and Europe, so you might have trouble finding data for railways outside of those regions. I had wanted to produce a timetable for the default Tokyo-Hakone route but was frustrated by the lack of data.

[rman]

Quick question: what do the 2 Dash9's coupled together represent? I've been switching out the default stock for some actual MARC stock and would like to do the same for these.

Just an MP36 double header, that's all.

[gammaray84]

Yes it is working. Thank you for your work. Very interesting thing you got here i must say.
Looking forward to more timetables in the future.

Have a good day all

[rman]

Cajon Pass is up!

[Shawmut]

Just an MP36 double header, that's all.

I rather thought that, see photos below. Many thanks again, Ryan.

David

MARC_1.jpg MARC_2.jpg MARC_3.jpg

[rman]

Looking beautiful!

[curley]

Working fine now. Thanks for your help and thanks for the Cajon timetables!

[rman]

Two more routes today: Glorieta Pass (Amtrak/Rail Runner) and the Piedmont Corridor (Amtrak).

[rman]

Cardinal and Hoosier State timetables have been added for the Monon route. There's also a New Haven Line timetable that... sort of works. There are massive backups during rush hour.

[juk123]

Hey rman, I appreciate your efforts with automating the OR timetable creation which is a tedious process. However, when creating a TT with this GTFS http://cdn.buenosaires.gob.ar/datosa...renes-gtfs.zip all i get is an error:

C:\Users\franio\Downloads\DODADTKI_MSTS\autotable-1.1-amd64\autotable-1.1-amd64>
autotable.exe "C:\MSTS\Train Simulator" "C:\Users\franio\Downloads\DODADTKI_MSTS
\autotable-1.1-amd64\autotable-1.1-amd64\FCGBMv3.yaml
Loading MSTS/ORTS installation ...
Reading recipe ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Projects\autotable\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexes\base.py
", line 2897, in get_loc
File "pandas/_libs/index.pyx", line 107, in pandas._libs.index.IndexEngine.get
_loc
File "pandas/_libs/index.pyx", line 131, in pandas._libs.index.IndexEngine.get
_loc
File "pandas/_libs/hashtable_class_helper.pxi", line 1607, in pandas._libs.has
htable.PyObjectHashTable.get_item
File "pandas/_libs/hashtable_class_helper.pxi", line 1614, in pandas._libs.has
htable.PyObjectHashTable.get_item
KeyError: 'agency_id'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Projects\autotable\venv\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\__sta
rtup__.py", line 40, in run
File "D:\Projects\autotable\venv\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Conso
le.py", line 37, in run
File "autotable/main.py", line 456, in <module>
File "autotable/main.py", line 88, in main
File "autotable/main.py", line 280, in load_config
File "autotable/main.py", line 159, in load_gtfs
File "D:\Projects\autotable\autotable\gtfs.py", line 45, in __init__
File "D:\Projects\autotable\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\frame.py", line
2995, in __getitem__
File "D:\Projects\autotable\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\core\indexes\base.py
", line 2899, in get_loc
File "pandas/_libs/index.pyx", line 107, in pandas._libs.index.IndexEngine.get
_loc
File "pandas/_libs/index.pyx", line 131, in pandas._libs.index.IndexEngine.get
_loc
File "pandas/_libs/hashtable_class_helper.pxi", line 1607, in pandas._libs.has
htable.PyObjectHashTable.get_item
File "pandas/_libs/hashtable_class_helper.pxi", line 1614, in pandas._libs.has
htable.PyObjectHashTable.get_item
KeyError: 'agency_id'

[rman]

Hi juk123,

I have released a new autotable version, 1.1a, that should now load your feed successfully. You can find it here.

[aj47484]

Hey guys, I'm a new user of Python. The Autotable solution to Timetable editing has got my interest and after many hours trying to make sense of it all I'm still lost after countless error messages. So I'd like to start from scratch and follow the tutorial on github. Any help would be amazing thanks.

Quickstart

Download autotable

Under 1.1 hotfix I click the "Assets" drop down and save the file autotable-1.1a-amd64.zip 151MB I'm guessing the GTFS kit is included with the internal reader and needs no downloading?