Question on where to locate Routes and Consists Folders in OpenRails

[TrainGuy17]

Hello everyone, I hope everyone here is doing well. I have a question, does anyone know where exactly I can find or locate my Routes folder and my Consist folder in Open Rails? Including any other additional folders that I may need in order to have and or make any trains run in game and any routes to work or be visible in game in Open Rails from the files that I install from this website, or would I have to create folders or something? Because the only files I see in the Open Rails folder are the content folder, documentation, global, native, languages, and some other folders that only says like two letters on them. Any advice on this would be appreciated, thanks.

[R. Steele]

4.4 Using a Non-MSTS Folder Structure
Open Rails uses a subset of the MSTS folder structure to run. You must create a root folder of any suitable
name and it must contain four folders, together with their related sub-folders:
\GLOBAL
\ROUTES
\TRAINS
\SOUND

IMPORTANT: DO NOT put any of these folders in the OR program folder -- OR profiles as shown below are kept in a separate directory.

Within each folder in the screenshot below are the four folders listed above. [ignore the tree icon folders -- that's specific to my setup ]

You can have one or many OR profiles.

The basic folder setup is shown above....read chapter four of the manual .... the ROUTES folder can have one or several or all of the routes you want.

Install your OR profiles as follows C:\TrainSim or C:\OpenRails\Profiles ( or content or whatever naming makes sense to you....) once you start OR you can use the Options/Content tab to point OR to anywhere you want and name the content as it will appear in the OR GUI. READ CHAPTER FOUR and then keep reading.

Keep checking this thread, I'm positive other members will also post good information, I only gave the briefest description, there's lots more!!

Last Item: OR manual is found in the Documentation folder.

OR_Profiles.jpg

[TrainGuy17]

R. Steele Ah, okay I see. Thank you so very much for this information in response to my question. This is my first time just trying to get used to Open Rails and playing Open Rails as well and so this information definitely and also helps, but I will sure keep an eye out on this thread for other posts about this as well.

[eric]

To add to Gerry's advice... we do have tutorials here:

https://www.trainsim.com/forums/articles/articles/how-to/2284122-using-msts-content-and-third-party-applications-without-installing-msts

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[TrainSimJack]

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[eric]

Eric I get an error when trying the link above.

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Yep, there were a couple of those that got clobbered possibly by spam in the comments... I hate turning off comments because it's a useful feedback mechanism, but that might be necessary.

Regardless, it's back up and available.

[TrainGuy17]

eric In response to your tutorial link, Awesome, thank you so much! I will go and check it out! Am I able to also find this, the tutorial, on YouTube as well?

[amtrak115]

I create a separate directory for each verion of OR, then I create an ORTS directory. within ORTS, I group the different routes by railroad...I have an AFSF, a BNSF, an UP, a SP....etc. within each of those is directories, Global, Routes, Sound, Trains; this allow me to segregate all consists and equipment by railroad sort-of....there are some duplicates...there is one exception....within ORTS, I have a TrainSimlations. All routes, consists, equipment bought from Train Simulations goes in there regardless of railroad.

When I created the 1995 Soutwest Chief, I basically stayed in the ATSF directory for all 10 segments, but I added a duplicate activity within TrainSimulations for the ATSF Seligman route from trainsimulations using mostly TrainSimulations> Consists and equipment...there may be one or two TrainSim equipments....

anyway...that's How I organize.

I also have shortcuts on descktop to launch each different version of OR....Makes it easy testing Activities agains all the different versions.

Amtrak115

[R. Steele]

OR is very flexible regarding the content "Profile" directory ---- easy to personalize it to accommodate your organizational and railroad preferences. I'm using junction links to each profile for my GLOBAL and SOUND folders and changed all the path strings for all the Common folders - sound, cabview and include files to point to the "Tree" icon folders five levels above the trainset folders in each directory. Any changes in the common folders are available to all the profiles.