Railworks America

Recently downloaded Horseshoe Pass, Portland (Maine), and just got Steven's Pass. Noted that Horseshoe pass seems to use a ton of static cars at the crossing grades and signals that never turn off.

However, on the last two routes, I noted that the signals on the Portland and Steven's Pass routes actually work the way they should have always worked, i.e., turning on and off at the right amount of time, crossing gates come down at the right time, etc.

I don't suppose there's a way to have this happen globally without digging into these new files that seem to be zipped up, is there? Not a major issue, but was just wondering. The way the last two routes have their signals set up looks like the way all the ones in the US routes should act.

Just curious. Thanks.

It's not a question of date. Protland Terminal predates Horseshoe curve.
It's more a question of people. GNTX, who made Stevens Pass, has improved grade crossing signals, RSC has not.

It mights have something to do with Portland Terminal being made by Rick Grout (GTrax) who is also in GNTX.

Replacing crossing signals globally, that might be possible with RW-Tools.
It has a global replace function which might work.
I suppose it would require some manual adjustments afterwards.
More competent people may want to answer that one.

Chacal wrote:It's not a question of date. Protland Terminal predates Horseshoe curve.
It's more a question of people. GNTX, who made Stevens Pass, has improved grade crossing signals, RSC has not.

It mights have something to do with Portland Terminal being made by Rick Grout (GTrax) who is also in GNTX.

Replacing crossing signals globally, that might be possible with RW-Tools.
It has a global replace function which might work.
I suppose it would require some manual adjustments afterwards.
More competent people may want to answer that one.

Ok, thanks for the response. BTW, I must apologize, it's "Ohio Steel 2" that has the static, always-on crossing signals, not "Horseshoe Curve" as I posted earlier.

Well, I must admit, those newer crossing signals should, in my opinion, replace all of them. He seems to have hit a sweet spot with how they operate.

BTW, not to go off on a tangent, but what ever happened to Ohio Steel 1? Was it an earlier route that "2" attaches to, or did 2 just replace 1?

Ver 2 is 1 plus what he added to make 2.

buzz456 wrote:Ver 2 is 1 plus what he added to make 2.

Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification. Now I can stop searching for 1. ;)

And it's no use looking for Preparation A to G.