http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/ RailOp Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:06:10 GMT bobel973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8115 ... There are a couple of good examples of single city model RR passenger terminals. In "Track Planning for Realistic Operation", p. 10, there is a schematic Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:19:33 GMT dougald48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8113 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8113 ... In this list of things, points #2 and #3 deserve some clarification. #2 The moves that stay the same are essentially to simulate the concept of a line ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:45:23 GMT bobel973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8112 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8112 ... I'm the member of Jim's ops crew that caused him to make all the passenger train improvements (but I'm definitely not bored, Jim!). The replies were so Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:18 GMT bobel973 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8111 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8111 ... I'm the member of Jim's ops crew that caused him to make all the passenger train improvements (but I'm definitely not bored, Jim!). The replies were so Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:04 GMT Philip Chamberlain http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8110 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8110 Jeff - RailOP needs some data to start with. Copy your data files from downstairs into the computer upstairs and RailOP should run OK. Phil [Non-text portions Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:41:48 GMT mt813@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8109 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8109 Hello, I am running RailOp on two computers. One at the layout in the basement, and one upstairs in the office. All of a sudden the up stairs program is Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:39:02 GMT Jim Hanna http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8108 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8108 WOW!! Thanks to all who responded to my question on improved Passenger ops. Lots of good ideas and I'm sure many will be incorporated into our weekly op Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:19:57 GMT railroadops@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8107 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8107 doug wrote "RailOp is a wonderful tool for managing freight car forwarding in our ops sessions but for me, it falls a bit short of being as wonderful in Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:36:08 GMT MOPACMAN http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8106 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8106 ... Something else to consider is that off line head end cars, i.e. baggage cars and such, would in many cases return empty in freight trains. For example, Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:20 GMT Steve http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8105 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8105 ... [...] ... No, keep it up! I just read both of your long messages with great interest. As I was reading them ideas for better passenger ops popped into my Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:23:47 GMT dougald48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8104 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8104 I responded directly to Jim's question in another post in this thread but wanted to add a bit more background about passenger ops. Most operators tend to view Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:34 GMT dougald48 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8103 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8103 ... Jim I have struggled with passenger operations within RailOp for some time as they are one of my key focusses in the hobby. First to understand how real Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:49:52 GMT Thomas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8102 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8102 Good Idea. Add a collection of head-end cars and let Railop generate custom consists! I know from research that roads like MP had odd front end cars on many Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:00:19 GMT FrolinMarek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8101 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8101 ... David, In no set order here are five things I like about the software... - ability to pick which trains and how many I want to generate, on the fly. If I Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:16:38 GMT Dennis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8100 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RailOp/message/8100 Set up the standard consist of the train as a kernel, leaving out cars like baggage, rpo, diner, etc. and have RailOp randomly assign these some or all of