I have the above activity which was updated for build 10 and I have the Ohio Rail upgrade installed. My question relates to the first action in the activity. I am to pick up a car from the Team Track at Dale. The turnout for this off the main is supposed to be manual, but in my current version of Ohio Rail the turnout will not operate manually. Previously, without the upgrade, it worked as a manual turnout. Has this been changed in the upgrade and if so how do I get the activity to work properly.

In the Upgrade, I believe this is discussed in the manual or the readme, all the turnouts on the mainline were converted to automatic. That particular activity had a 50-50 chance of working even with the manual switch and so whatever I did with that turnout was a no win situation. So that activity is effected by the Upgrade. What can you do? Well, you could use Steve Davis's program that converts all the turn-outs to automatic or manual and see if the activity functions properly that way, switch the turn-out in the RE back to manual (it's easy, the switch is level; no grade) or don't run that particular activity or try editing it to work properly as it stands now.

The change over to all automatic switches on the mainline was to facilitate folks to make activities easier for Ohio Rail. There had been a lot of activity making for Ohio Rail especially over at OVS. Now don't get mad but I don't think hardly anybody takes me up on my offers to make activities themselves for the routes I create like they used to so I don't know what to tell you whether that was a good idea or not to do it. But it was one of the requests back then and so I made the change along with making all the switches on the branchlines, manual. I hope somebody took advantage of it but I haven't heard anything of it since the route was released.

Rich

Hey Rich are you planning a big route for RS alongs the line of of the Ohio, just wondering I really enjoyed that route when it first came out.

Rich,

Thanks for the quick answer. After you mentoned that this was addressed in the upgrade manual I recalled that all the mainline turnouts were converted to manual (slapping self on forehead and looking sheepish). I'll look into your suggestions and if I get the activity to work with the upgrade I'll contact you for permisssion to upload it to Avsim.

Planning? That would suggest organization, discipline and a strong sense of where one is going. Me???

After this route I'm working on now I plan on getting back to linear routes and not the trackplans I've been doing for RS. It's possible. I don't have anything in mind yet.

Rich

So it is in the manual? I wasn't positive on that, it's been so long. No need to ask permission for your own work.

Rich