Maniac302 Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 I get a call from Tc2 asking me if he can send extra train 66828 to Est. The tractie dispatcher sending extra trains to me on the wrong track is a fairly regular occurrence, but it's no big deal. I just issue a turnaround order and send the train on it's way. This time, however, there is a different problem. I checked out the consist for 66828, and since it's just 2 locomotives, I figured it could turn around on sp 5a. Well, it stopped at the signal, and is still somehow occupying the switches behind it. So I say to myself, "That's wierd, but no big deal, I'll just let him pull forward some more so he can turn around." Well, even with the signals green all the way to sp f, he is still stopped at that signal, blocking a major switching point, meaning I can't continue this simulation.
TjoeTjoe Posted January 25, 2013 Posted January 25, 2013 I checked out the consist for 66828, and since it's just 2 locomotivesHow sure are you on this with respect the consist being just 2 locomotives? Do you remember the type? I checked the timetable data (ms Access) and I can not find a consist having just 2 locomotives. And if I am not that wrong, the simulation does not generate consists all by itself. So hopefully you saved this situation in a sim-file. I hope that you understand that a problem with extra trains is not easy to reproduce, as it is generated at random Erwin
Pierre Posted January 26, 2013 Posted January 26, 2013 Could they be 2 times a DE5 (5 car DMU) instead of just 2 locomotives? Did the train already have movement orders or did you create them?
Maniac302 Posted January 26, 2013 Author Posted January 26, 2013 When I clicked on the consist, it showed just 2 cars; however, I didn't look at the length of the consist the first time, which is 207m, or 2 DE-5(5) units. So I was mistaken about the length. The train did not have movement orders, I had to create them to get it to it's destination, since it's original travel direction was the not the way to it's destination. I still have the save file I created with the problem train, I just don't see any way to upload it to the forums. As a side note, I loaded an earlier save, and allowed 66828 the whole length of sp5 to turn around. It did not give me any problems.
Maniac302 Posted January 30, 2013 Author Posted January 30, 2013 I think I'm going to have to disable the extra trains option; game ending errors occur far too often with them, usually when they stop on a switch. I had 2 extra trains from ZV, scheduled to arrive, both of them, at platform 7 only 3 minutes apart. I knew that wasn't going to happen, so I sent the second one to platform 8. The tail of that train didn't quite clear the signal, although it cleared the switch, but it won't proceed. It's just stopped at a permissive signal, idefinitely, like the last one. Here is the link to the 2 safe files in question: https://www.transferbigfiles.com/2b7ad554-319f-4c68-9670-889c31d3d640?rid=EbUyAc12m-lYKjw-OYoSlw2
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