As of a few days ago, I am unable to place the Class 37/4 loco included with the West Highland Extension route while writing a scenario. Specifically, the moment I click on this engine in the assets fly-out, TS1500 freezes and effectively crashes to the desktop. When this first occurred, I was editing a scenario that I have been working on for several weeks, in which I had already successfully placed 3 examples of this engine. Now, attempting to place this engine in any scenario, including an otherwise empty, newly created one, causes the freeze/crash just described.
Here's what I have tried so far: I have deleted examples of blueprints.pac several times, verified the cache four times, first deleting the engine's files before the cache verification. The problem persists.
At this point, I would first like to know whether anyone else has encountered this specific problem. Please do not use this thread to rant about any other situations. If you have experienced this specific problem and solved it, please let me know the steps you took to do so. If you have encountered problems other than this one, you have my sympathy but please start your own thread.
No, I have not yet contacted RSC. I prefer to turn first to the experienced scenario writers who belong to this forum and who do not send me repeated, generic, worthless messages without ever suggesting a specific solution.
Further information: Although the 37/4 loco does show up in the correct RW Assets folders (mostly buried in an AP), the route folder itself is nowhere to be found and the route does not appear in RW_Tools. This morning, I unchecked the route in Steam-RSC-DLC and initiated a cache verification.