Amtrak SW Chief #3 1995 Chillicothe Sub activity not working

[slipperman]

Hi All,
I recently dealt with the problem a member had where AI trains were causing stand-offs.
I thought it was a well-known 'trick', but after changing all the "SignalNumClearAhead ( 3 )" entries in the sigcfg.dat file to "SignalNumClearAhead ( 4 )" the problem was resolved.
I haven't proved it, but think that, whatever the parameter number, changing it to 4, will solve many signalling problems when running MSTS routes in Open Rails.

Cheers,
Ged

[amtrak115]

Amtrak SW Chief #3 1995 Chillicothe Sub

hi there...this activity was the first of a multipart series on Amtrak's SW Chief right before the merger of BN and the ATSF. Trying to insure the rolling stock was period accurate was one of the problems in developing this activity. There wes also a patch on this Activity that was combined with the second activity of this series. I figured out that the passenger speeds were not matching what was available on the routes....This was due to how 4 pieces of equipment were classified in the consist file. After the patch the player train could operated at passenger train speed, where before the patch the speed was limited to freight train speeds. anyway....let me know if you have problems...I'll see if I can figure this one out....BTW. the Activity was originally intended to run on both MSTS and OR systems....later in the development I gave up on that premise and designed it only to work on OR...

Later

Amtrak115

[oper190]

Once again, you are dealing with activities made in/for MSTS(?) being run in OR on MSTS built routes. Somethings just don't work the same. Other than rebuilding the Activity, going to manual mode is probably the only way to complete them. Have done that myself on occasion, so you are doing nothing wrong. There is no "easy fix" I am aware of. The signal fix mentioned might work, but I've never tried it. Had the speed limit problem myself with my own made activties so need to look into that.

[geepster775]

Am I doing something wrong?

Yes. You are relying too much on autopilot for player train movement. Autopilot gives the player train unrealistic physics that stick to the posted speed limit, even under situations where the player train normally would not be able to make and hold track speed.