Colleagues,
If one has MSTS and can still run it, which I can on my antique XP machine, there will be created terrain buffers which can take up a lot of otherwise unused space and create a way too big zip file. The problem of unused objects has been mentioned. So I wonder, if anyone is looking at creating a utility to remove unused objects, could we also have a utility or part of that utility that can be used to remove terrain buffers since ORTS does not use them.
The question arose when I created what will probably be my last new route, if I ever finish it. That will be the Milwaukee Road line that in the old days was called the Iowa & Dakota line if I remember right. I rode the Sioux over it as far west as Spencer, IA to visit my Aunt & Uncle several times in the 1950s and it was my first ride in a real Pullman in 1946 when I was 7 years old and mother, grandmother, & I rode out to visit those relatives.
On my last ride in 1959, we got a request to pick up a dead SD-9 near Mason City and tow to MC where the maintenance base for the area was. It was in a siding and we stopped, flagman threw the switch & we coupled on, SD-9 on the rear of a sad train, baggage, mail, 2 coaches. The rear door of the 2nd coach was open, and the conductor was set up across the aisle from me. I hear the comments from the locomotive and it became apparent that the brakes would not release on the engine. The engineer told them they needed to cut out the brake stand (so it would just another car) but they had no clue how to do that. My uncle had shown me years before how this was done so this 20 year old college student, soon to be a senior, told them I can show you what to do then verify with the engineer. I did, and the conductor then just asked one thing - please don't tell this to the conductor that relieves me at Mason City-------. I never did.
Jerry Sullivan
If one has MSTS and can still run it, which I can on my antique XP machine, there will be created terrain buffers which can take up a lot of otherwise unused space and create a way too big zip file. The problem of unused objects has been mentioned. So I wonder, if anyone is looking at creating a utility to remove unused objects, could we also have a utility or part of that utility that can be used to remove terrain buffers since ORTS does not use them.
The question arose when I created what will probably be my last new route, if I ever finish it. That will be the Milwaukee Road line that in the old days was called the Iowa & Dakota line if I remember right. I rode the Sioux over it as far west as Spencer, IA to visit my Aunt & Uncle several times in the 1950s and it was my first ride in a real Pullman in 1946 when I was 7 years old and mother, grandmother, & I rode out to visit those relatives.
On my last ride in 1959, we got a request to pick up a dead SD-9 near Mason City and tow to MC where the maintenance base for the area was. It was in a siding and we stopped, flagman threw the switch & we coupled on, SD-9 on the rear of a sad train, baggage, mail, 2 coaches. The rear door of the 2nd coach was open, and the conductor was set up across the aisle from me. I hear the comments from the locomotive and it became apparent that the brakes would not release on the engine. The engineer told them they needed to cut out the brake stand (so it would just another car) but they had no clue how to do that. My uncle had shown me years before how this was done so this 20 year old college student, soon to be a senior, told them I can show you what to do then verify with the engineer. I did, and the conductor then just asked one thing - please don't tell this to the conductor that relieves me at Mason City-------. I never did.
Jerry Sullivan
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