Author Topic: Block size/train size problem on San Bernadino E Los Angeles - Riverside  (Read 4460 times)

clauslr

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Monday in the hour after midnight:

The train M-BARLAC1 (one of the trains allready running in the territory at simulation start on Monday 00:00) is too long for the station Block "Pico Rivera" or the Block is too short. The train can not execute it's station stop.

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We have noticed that in the TDP3 original some trains are indeed too long to be served at Pico Rivera, so the train lengths were adjusted in the train schedule so that they fit.

For trains supposed to be already on the territory we use a variation of the CTC simulator run with just the trains we need to care of, maneuver them to the place where they are supposed to be at start up according to the original TDP3 data, and finally do an ordinary save of the game status. This status is then added to the release versions of the territory files, so that they can be loaded when you start the simulator, much like when you load the game status that you have saved yourself.

Now, train lengths can change over time, so that is part of the saved data besides of the head and tail position of each train.

Apparently, when the train lengths in the base schedule were changed, the generation of the load data for the start positions - done earlier before this change - wasn't repeated. This would have been necessary to correct the train lengths here - and they were now outdated.

So, obviously we need to re-generate the load data to correct the situation. We'll let you know right here when that is done.

clauslr

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Thank you :-)

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Ok - the statement I made earlier needs to be modified. The discovery about the train length vs block length problem was at an early stage, which was corrected. However, since then we merged the platform and workarea functionality into the station functionality which covers all features that you can have at either platform or workarea stop - except the modification of the train length (from the workarea). Some of the trains needed to go to the procedure to reduce the length at a stop prior to the problem station.

The territory file has been modified to get around that problem (making the block length longer than the max. train length that exists in the schedule. See the announcement in a different post.