Loose Consist Placement- What am I doing wrong?

[dlfrenchmd]

I made some static railcars to display as static objects in yards, but the manuals seem to suggest I can make a "loose consist" , place it in the yard, and view it as a static string. So I went to TSRE, used the activities tool, and placed a consist of 5 reefer cars without problem. It looks great and saves fine in TSRE. On restarting TSRE, no consist. Not in Open Rails sim either. So I searched and made 2 corrections. In TSRE settings, I changed "write TDB" to "false", and in the activity .act file, I edited the times for the activity to 23 hours length, the 1 hour hiatus at 0300.
The consist places fine in TSRE, saves, and if I restart TSRE, it still isn't there. It reappears if I choose the activity in the drop down list in "Activity List. Otherwise it is not there in TSRE or OR. What am I doing wrong? Did I make a false assumption you can place a car string like this? If need photos, let me know.
Dan

[wwhall]

Loose consists, once placed, must be saved in the specific .act file for the activity. That .act file must be open in TSRE to do that. My guess is that you are not doing that. Also, look in the OpenRails log file to see if there are any error messages. One final note about placing loose consists--if you place a loose consist that extends beyond an end of track, it may show in the TSRE, but will not load when running the activity.

[Darkhorse427]

Also just to clarify, "loose Consist" and "static placeable" are not the same thing nor are they interchangeable..