Mid East Plus Deltic - Strange Behaviour (OR MG)

[R. Steele]

Invisi (and some not so invisible) locos were used by a number of North American activity designers; Ed Cook and Denis Gionet come to mind.

For example, Ed used these to act as blockers in his CP471 activity on Rogers Pass; you are held up at the end of Field yard while a couple of trains enter before the dispatcher allows you to leave. Today, of course, OR's waiting points will take care of this problem, but to Ed's credit I've found that his blockers actually move at the proper rate in either MSTS or OR. And he also used invisi locos to carry .sms dispatcher messages from his own voice recordings, so instead of getting a pop-up you'd hear Ed voicing both the engineer and the dispatcher! Highly entertaining activities.

Thanks for the history, quick search of FL shows 40 activities under "Ed Cook". Will have to look at them. Interesting thread, first encountered "invisio-cars" when setting up the fictional C&NW route ( which I found later was a takeoff from an earlier fictional route ).

OR has never implemented these, although there was some discussion about it. I still think they could be useful for sound effects or addition of special shape files in the route, I believe that was their function in the C&NW --- even if they ineffective for other purposes.

Could OR be coded to ignore them, if a parameter was present in the invisio file? ORTSIgnoreEng or ORTSIgnoreWag