[fabianfred]

How to ... run trains anywhere...

First open a map ...this is my Thailand map and the railyard at Rangoon (as close as I could get it to the

wartime one)



Put a train on the normal lines first....... just a start and end ...this is a Locomotive I made for shunting

about which has just the Loco and bunker


Open the vehicles and use the first one... a GAZ-67 ...place it's waypoints on the rails getting the lines

nicely in-line with the rails...




Save the mission ....don't forget to put in a static camera so that you can watch



Open the mission file in Notepad... and select the speed data from the 1st line of the train (0_chief_road)



copy and paste it on the GAZ 1st line.....




open the edit menu (Notepad) and choose search/replace and replace the GAZ data with the train one like

this.....




and the last line... change the 120 to 20



select all the train 0_chief data ... and delete it



now delete the line for the GAZ...



now change the train chief number from 1 to 0



finally add up how many lines of waypoints for the train and put them here (it was 2 before)



the 0 immediately to the left of the box with 16 in it is the time for the train to start after the mission

begins.... if you change this 0 to a 5 then the train will start five minutes into the mission


save your changes



load the mission again



....now you can see the GAZ has gone and the lines for the train replace the old waypoints...



run the mission and enjoy..





if you want to make your own shunter or any other new train........ open the Chiefs.ini file (usually in the

MODS/STD folder ...find the trains near the top and add as you see I have a new line
Germany_Locomotive



then go down further and add the data as shown



save and Bingo! ...you can make up your own trains with many trucks or add extra carriages to the

default trains