Loco/rake reversal in activity

[thegreatone1980]

Is there any tutorial on how to make an activity that involves removing the loco from the front of the train and attaching it at the back? Does a path reversal point automatically trigger this?

I am new to activity creation so if it is obvious please excuse my ignorance.

[geepster775]

You really only use a reverse point (once) to change the directional flow of the activity. As to the switching maneuvers needed to get the loco from one end of the train to the other, that's what ORTS manual control is for. Process is a bit different from the MSTS activity creation days when reverse points were used many times for the actual switching moves.

[amtrak115]

Is there any tutorial on how to make an activity that involves removing the loco from the front of the train and attaching it at the back? Does a path reversal point automatically trigger this?

I am new to activity creation so if it is obvious please excuse my ignorance.

I couldn't find one when I looked for it....in my activity for Amtrak 1995 SW Chief from Chicago to LA...Segment 5 which is Raton Pass...(https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib....ight&fid=36546) I added a bonus activity for an East bound Coal drag to "double the hill" over Raton Pass....Basically the activity is taking 6 locos....creating a coal drag with 3 mid train helpers. At Raton dropping off the second half of coal cars (after the mid train helpers...) going over the pass, storing the coal cars in a siding, then reversing the six locos back across the pass to pick up the second batch of coal cars....I could never get the paths...with reversing points and the location events to work right to get to all work right or to my satisfaction.....but you might get some ideas from the activity events and the paths.....

[thegreatone1980]

You really only use a reverse point (once) to change the directional flow of the activity. As to the switching maneuvers needed to get the loco from one end of the train to the other, that's what ORTS manual control is for. Process is a bit different from the MSTS activity creation days when reverse points were used many times for the actual switching moves.

I figured this too. Problem is how do I ensure that there is a path for the loco to go around? Is this something that is beyond the scope of activity creation and more a free form shunting mode? Is it possible at all in an activity? Guess I am a bit confused about it.

[thegreatone1980]

I couldn't find one when I looked for it....in my activity for Amtrak 1995 SW Chief from Chicago to LA...Segment 5 which is Raton Pass...(https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib....ight&fid=36546) I added a bonus activity for an East bound Coal drag to "double the hill" over Raton Pass....Basically the activity is taking 6 locos....creating a coal drag with 3 mid train helpers. At Raton dropping off the second half of coal cars (after the mid train helpers...) going over the pass, storing the coal cars in a siding, then reversing the six locos back across the pass to pick up the second batch of coal cars....I could never get the paths...with reversing points and the location events to work right to get to all work right or to my satisfaction.....but you might get some ideas from the activity events and the paths.....

Thanks, I will take a look at it. I don’t have that route though

[amtrak115]

route available here on trainsim

[thegreatone1980]

route available here on trainsim

Ok.thanks.