Turning off Vehicle Traffic in Open Rails

[gordy]

Hi Guys and Gals my question is how do I turn off the vehicle traffic in Open Rails so I don't have vehicles driving through my trains??

Seeing moving traffic is not that big a deal to me any help would be greatly appreciated

[kennyeaton]

I don't know that you can turn them off short of deleting them out. The crossing's in question sounds like they need a road crossing flasher base installed.

[eric]

Maybe delete the carspawner.dat contents?

[geepster775]

Why would there be vehicles driving through your trains as a matter of regular occurrence? What route and what locations?

I've seen it happening upon activity loading where the head end is impacting one crossing interactive by not the second one. Cars in one direction stop, and cars moving in the other direction blows right through. But that is only one location in one activity in one route.

If something is happening because of a bug, well the good news is, it can be fixed. That is the benefit of using software that is currently being supported. Just give the details of the route and location and circumstances so others might confirm a problem if a problem exists.

[rdayt]

Seems fairly straightforward to address.


Randy

[gordy]

I didn't know if there is something that I could change in the settings to just not have traffic moving.

[ebnertra000]

I've had multiple instances of vehicles seeming to ignore placed crossing objects. It's very inconsistent, so I haven't been able to pin down a cause

[dcarleton]

I've seen it happen where a road is crossing a piece of dynamic track. Also in a location where the road crosses a turnout and the cars stop for one leg of the turnout and not the other.
If it doesn't bother me, I leave it alone. If it bothers me, then I go into the route editor and delete the carspawner. This is a train simulator, not a traffic simulator!

[peterman]

Hi Guys and Gals my question is how do I turn off the vehicle traffic in Open Rails so I don't have vehicles driving through my trains??

Seeing moving traffic is not that big a deal to me any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi Gordy,

I find by renaming the carspawn.dat file to something like - 1980carspawn.dat keeps the vehicular traffic at bay. (1980 is the general years of your vehicles). I have three different carspawn.dat files ranging from 1940-1959, 1960-1979 and 1980-1999. When I want to use the vehicles for the steam era, I just remove the 1940 from the filename.

Peter

[gordy]

I want to say a HUGE thank you to all of the advise on the carspawn.dat and I deleted it in the sim and it works great no more traffic but I do see the cars parked at stores and factorys and that is good enough for me thanks again guys!!!!!