Cascades activity crashes upon loading

[niknak]

Hi guys, I'm trying to run an old Cascades route activity I've just downloaded but it crashes once loading has completed. It seems to go by at least two different names. It's File ID 70462 (noname62)
I'd appreciate any help in getting it to run. OR log attached.

[derekmorton]

How large is the boxcarset zip file?

I have everything bar that?

[niknak]

Just over 2MB unzipped.

[oper190]

Download the Activity, started, no problems, other than some missing rolling stock which I can fix.

Saw in your Log, that it can't load the SD40 .s file: "Warning: Couldn't load shape C:\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\trains\trainset\SD40\SD40.s file may be corrupt"
That might be your problem. I believe there is a replacement or updated file for this available in the library here.
Edit -This is the one I am using no problems: https://www.trainsim.com/forums/file...leid?fid=73330

[niknak]

That was indeed the problem! Many thanks oper190 and also to you Derek.

[oper190]

Well this is a poorly written Activity when run in OR
1) Lack of directions, considering the need to go into manual mode to do the switching
2) Poorly placed revers points you can't trigger, and thus correct direction of engine

Points for having to think how to make up your train, for easy of drop-offs and pick-ups - but you have to do it all in manual, and out of order the way the path is set.

So left it half done and moving on to something else.

[derekmorton]

The activity runs fine here.
I must have already fixed the sd40 for another activity

I accept other peoples activities in the spirit that they were made.

[oper190]

I accept other peoples activities in the spirit that they were made.

I do agree, this is one I'll be adjusting in MSTS Activity Editor. Just found it a bit of a disappointment when I could not get a revers point to trigger and ending up in Emergency Brake going through a switch you needed to go through to make the pick-up. Therefore ending up going into manual to release brakes and not hitting the point that is obviously in the wrong place anyway.

Be one of many I've found the need to tweak, to run better in OR.

[slipperman]

Good Morning, Geary,
That is one of the joys of running activities written for good old MSTS, in Open Rails !
Also, you learn a lot when you have to get your hands dirty to fix things to how you want them to go!!

Cheers,
Ged

[oper190]

That is one of the joys of running activities written for good old MSTS, in Open Rails !
Also, you learn a lot when you have to get your hands dirty to fix things to how you want them to go!!

True on both. Have rewritten a fair number of activities for OR so they run better and make sense. Sometimes adding pop-ups to explain things that you need to do, and add more AI traffic or static stock too.

[niknak]

Finally finished this activity at 8.20am after leaving most of the cars on Springfield 2 and the remainder on 3. Quite an 'interesting' old MSTS activity to run in OR, what with the faulty reverse point that Geary mentioned at Gunderson and then the abruptly disappearing AI train shortly after !

[oper190]

Just finished my rewrite, and found one of the AI trains was missing its path so wasn't loading. Fixed that and going to give it a spin now.