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IzMeBee (10 posts)
Jul-08-01, 10:33 PM (EST) "Switchbacks...." I was doing the Isaburo run. Stopped at the first station and backed into the switchback. There was a Red Stop. I sat there and sat there... banged on the tab key a few times. Dispatch man was having nothing of it. I sat there until I was late for my next station. I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions??Thanks much in advanceBret Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Switchbacks.... pethu Jul-09-01 1 RE: Switchbacks.... Master Qui Gon Jul-09-01 2 RE: Switchbacks.... Randy_999 Feb-09-02 3 RE: Switchbacks.... Starlight Feb-09-02 4 RE: Switchbacks.... Gandalf Feb-10-02 5

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pethu (3 posts)
Jul-09-01, 09:01 AM (EST) 1. "RE: Switchbacks...." I, too, foolishly thought backing up past the signal would be enough... You have to back all the way to the end of the track, before it turns green. That lost me a few minutes... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Master Qui Gon (138 posts)
Jul-09-01, 03:35 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Switchbacks...." I don't know the MSTS activities well enough to know the specific situation you're referring to, but you usually do have to travel a distance beyond the signal to clear the circuit. If you are still on it, you shunt the circuit and it shows the track is still occupied to the operator handling the power switches.
In real life, it doesn't matter. I could be several unit lengths clear of the circuit. If the dispatcher or operator is eating a ham sandwich or outside having a smoke, I don't get a signal until they're damn good and ready.
Our dispatchers are also 1,100 miles away and we are often out of radio contact due to winding routes through the mountains.
Needless to say, our 205 mile route can be covered in 6 hours if you can run at track speed, but this situation combined with other obstacles has us on the job 12 or more hours sometimes.Master Qui-Gon Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Randy_999 (6 posts)
Feb-09-02, 06:22 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Switchbacks...." I just came across this pair of Isburo entries and am totally baffled by my experience with that trip. On the first try, near the first station at Okoba and going through a fairly long tunnel, my single-car "train" slowed down slowly and simply quit, and then started rolling BACKWARDS! I had no control over it whatever, and finally had to escape while it was running at about 40 mph back toward the starting point. Well, I attributed that to some glitch in my system, even though I've had very few glitches of any kind, so a day or two later I had to try that run again. This time I did manage to reach Okoba, where the single track divided to straddle the station platform on each side. But then I discovered it was the end of the line!!! Up ahead in plain sight were two end-of-track barriers. End of tourist activities, obviously, but have others of you managed to complete this tourist run all the way to Yoshimatu? How can I be missing practically 90% of a railroad??? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Starlight (131 posts)
Feb-09-02, 06:34 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Switchbacks...." *G* That's not the end...look up and to your rear and you'll see the beginning of a switchback. Me, I did the same thing...I can just see the headlines now:Tourists go on wild ride down mountain in RDC...Driver expected to try out for olympic bobsled team next year. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Gandalf (160 posts)
Feb-10-02, 12:11 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Switchbacks...." Picked this trick up from the Lago Activity Pack...Watch the little revers symbol in your track monitor. When it just disapears, the switches and signals will change as soon as you reverse and start moving. NOTE: The reverse symbol must disapear...not just be hiding under your blue arrow train indicator thingy!Hope this helps. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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