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Post by stewstewart on Jan 29, 2011 9:34:04 GMT -5
Slide,
Well, I flew for a while - ok, not too long, but I'll get right back to my search as soon as I post this.
Can you give me the general area where you chase steam??? Perhaps the coords of a spot on the rail line?
Let me get back to flying - I'm going to change to a Waco, though. The Fleet 2 is just a little slow....
Stew
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Post by Slide on Jan 29, 2011 11:29:24 GMT -5
Hi Stew, you seem to have more experience with my place than I have with yours LOL - when you were at Erding, I was born. 30 years after I moved to Erding, too, for half a year, when I had a job there. Nice you still remember Duesseldorf Airport. Whenever you may have a future landing there let´s go for some Altbier! The best way to have it all together with Phenick, the Travel Air and the Railroad is to properly install Bill Lyons "Travel Air Package". That is cc10taf.zip @ flightsim. If you do so, you´ll have more than one flight to chase more than one train in your "Flights"-directory. Look under "Travel Air" then. If you have the package but not the flights, choose CCA1 for "Phenick Field" in Newark, take off at 14.00h and fly west for a minute until you reach the tracks. Follow them north some minutes and you´ll see the nicest black clouds to fly through! MoCat´s Akron is on our own Download Site here at TOH: " akron31.zip" if I recall it right. Did I ever mention I'm a Model Railroad freak??? Well, who in this place is not? Nobody says so, but I believe we´re a bunch of Steampunks
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Post by Slide on Jan 30, 2011 8:44:53 GMT -5
Here are some shots from a short leg I made from McKinley Field to Williams Air Turf. I thought the original weather in an early morning hour would be ugly enough to gain the best fun from the lighting system and I was right. 07.37H, -1°C plus occasionally a little snowfall Can you see the little light on the ground? I like the Travel Air. Williams Air Turf. Nosing around, missing a windsock One of the nicely modeled lightpoles. Engine already stopped for Coffee/Rum.
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Post by stewstewart on Jan 30, 2011 18:23:34 GMT -5
Slide!
I do have all the "old" Ohio Scenery that I could find anywhere!!!
I also have been chasing the thick black smoke only a steam engine makes (untill the steam is really up and it's crusing at top efficiency!!!)
I'll leave out the part having to do with spending three hours today trying to get it to work (editing traffic files, moving scenery around, etc - all you really have to do is put the files in the right folder and tell FS9/GW3 to go and get them!!!)
I do cheat, though. I added more runs and I circle around the origin until a train leaves. I may start running the trains both ways!!!
Many thanx again!!!
Stew
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Post by AirCoaster on Jan 31, 2011 22:28:56 GMT -5
Thanks Guys, I am enjoying your input tremendously. I have been sick the past few days with some stomach issues that have raised their ugly heads.
Great shots Slide, are those in FS9 or FS8? I dug out my old FS8 sceneries the other day, but can't read a one of them. They were made back in FAT32 days. The disc are worthless without some way of reading them, and i am lost when it comes to doing so. Those beacons were made with Bill's help when I got stuck a few times. He was really wonderful when it came to helping others figure out what to do. Mostly with coding, the rest was all my creativity.
I love Steampunk. Btw, I live near Canton, so I have visited many of the fields you guys speak of, or at least with some, their locations.
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Post by Slide on Feb 1, 2011 8:00:46 GMT -5
Glad you like it, AirCoaster. It´s FS9. Regarding the FAT reading probs .... maybe install VMWare on your current system, feed it with some old WIN95 and read and copy to NTFS from there? It´s fairly easy and fun also. I once ran about half a dozen OS on one machine, one for real, the others virtually. Stew, I like the idea of having more trains running. Could you give me a hint how to edit the traffic-file? I know these are 3 that I have to decompile first and put together in the end again - but I don´t know what to write.
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Post by stewstewart on Feb 1, 2011 14:28:12 GMT -5
Aircoaster!!!
Hope you're better. Like I said, I went to Kent, married an Adena Girl (down past New Philly and Cadiz). Used to get up there from DC Area very irregularly, but now that we're in the Syracuse Area, we'll be out more - Wife's HS Reunion this summer comes to mind!!! Once again, hope you're recovering!
Slide!
I tried adding legs to the flightplans and found it was more work (and opportunities to screw it all up) than there was payoff.
I'll try varying the frequency to 6 (in stead of 24) hours - with 8 trains (4 each way) the first train leaving at 1259 and the last arriving at 2143, I'm going to do a graphic schedule (so I can see the movement times) and be sure I don't have trains running into eachother before I actually increase frequency!
I've modified flight plans for AI before, but it's been a while and I'm going slowly!!!! I'm assuming no one will be angry if I modify a flight plan and post it as such giving full credit to the original author!!! ... and it may not work out. If merely changinf freqs doesn't work out, I'll return to adding legs.
Stew
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Post by Tom Constantine on Feb 2, 2011 6:53:56 GMT -5
Stew, you are certainly welcome to tinker with the traffic file, but I settled on the way it is now after much experimentation. One thing you can do that may allow more trains to run is to add a hold short node at each end. The train will stop at the hold short and since there is no way it can use the runway it will disappear after 6 minutes. You could conceivably insert half hour start times between the on the hour starts, but I recommend keeping it one way in the morning and the other in the afternoon to avoid timing conflicts. I don't think they would collide, I think they would just drive through each other in any case, but seeing that might be a show stopper.
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Post by Tom Constantine on Feb 2, 2011 7:02:53 GMT -5
Stew, I like the idea of having more trains running. Could you give me a hint how to edit the traffic-file? I know these are 3 that I have to decompile first and put together in the end again - but I don´t know what to write. Decompile with TTools and modify the flightplans.txt The others should remain the same. Just copy and insert a whole line and change the start time & finish time by 30 minutes. Remember there are 3 trains to choose from. Sorry I can't remember which are which. Then recompile and give it a try.
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Post by AirCoaster on Feb 2, 2011 9:09:05 GMT -5
Regarding the FAT reading probs .... maybe install VMWare on your current system, feed it with some old WIN95 and read and copy to NTFS from there? It´s fairly easy and fun also. I once ran about half a dozen OS on one machine, one for real, the others virtually. Slide, with VMWare, don't you need a copy of the old W98 or W95 OS to install on the VM? If that's the case, I don't have either unless it is hidden in my old software. I wonder if Windows XP could read those discs? I have an old Dell that is XP, and also my x64 rig has a drive that has XP64 on it. In fact, i run a lot of the sim versions from that drive in the Vista OS. With the old Dell I could port the files from the disc to a flash drive, and then port it to my Vista drive, make new discs from there. Curious.
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Post by stewstewart on Feb 2, 2011 11:02:03 GMT -5
Talk big notwithstanding, I plotted the Flight Plan times and find "flights" from 1200 to just before 2200.
There are plans for trains 1-5, but I can find only trains 1-3. I started to wait for every train in slew, then follow and time it, but, though I always (as far as I got) saw smoke, sometimes the trains never left and the smoke just stopped -- this is very preliminary.
I'm going to continue this quest if only because I'd like to add morning runs, because I'm stubborn (and though I'm up to my ears in filling my basement with a model railroad I am retired and can afford the time), and, probably most important to me, as I delve deeper into the flight plan I discover more and more I don't know about flight plans - and this is the way I learn: screw up, read more, try again, marginal success, read more, try again.... I find it enjoyable (which should give some insight into how my little brain works!), even stimulating!!!
I do use TTools and have much of their Help Files printed out!!!
Many thanx for the inputs - and, Slide, I'll keep you posted as I muddle through!!!
L&Ks,
Stew
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Post by Slide on Feb 2, 2011 16:14:00 GMT -5
I love Steampunk. Btw, I live near Canton, so I have visited many of the fields you guys speak of, or at least with some, their locations. I had the idea. I have just put a 10-year old disc in my XP-futer. It reads it, but I am not sure about FAT´s there. Rightclick in Explorer window gives you a "CDFS" and I don´t know about that. Just try yourself ... And I am sure you´ll find some of those antique OS, too - I have just found a WIN95A on the shelf Tom, thanks for the input. I´ll give it a try. I'm up to my ears in filling my basement with a model railroad I am retired and can afford the time Lucky guy, keep muddling! I surely wish, I had some more time on my hand...
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Post by AirCoaster on Feb 3, 2011 9:30:54 GMT -5
Ditto, on the model railroad thing. My last one filled half my basement, was N gauge, based on an East Broad Top RR theme. Time, and money are what stops me now.
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Post by stewstewart on Feb 3, 2011 14:23:38 GMT -5
YES! My Mom gave ne $50 to buy a class ring when I graduater from college - I bought a Revell N Scale set. I knew I was going into the service and I figured N was four times the layout for the same space as HO. I tore out my last layout (under the stairs in our flat in Heinzental, Neuhemsbach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) in 1983 and something went snap - I sealed everything and wouldn't build a layout unhtil we were out of the service, done moving, and in our last house. Well, we moved to Fayetteville, NY, last March. I have a 141" x 254" (3.58 m x 6.45 m) area - less 30" (0.76 m) for access to my workshop. I've got all the support benchwork in and I've started on elevating the support for the roadbed and track. I'm in Steam hog heaven!!! Stew P.S. And I'll kee you posted in the cafe!!! --- But steam goes along with old Ohio airports, doesn't it?
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Post by AirCoaster on Feb 4, 2011 8:46:44 GMT -5
Sure Stew, we aren't that picky here.......
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