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Activities are also useful in providing tutorials to help you get the most out of Open Rails.
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See Australia's Zig-Zag Railway for <a href="http://www.zigzag.coalstonewcastle.com.au/">some very effective steam-based tutorials</a>.
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<h3>Developing Activities</h3>
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<h3>Developing Activities - 1</h3>
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A great place to start would be the free Siskiyou Route from the USA. The creator, Dale Rickert, has assembled <a href="http://www.siskurail.org/news.php">a package of instructions, examples
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and even videos</a> to show how to create both simple and demanding activities.
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<img id="guide" src="guideexample.jpg"/>
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The quality of these diagrams reflects the effort that Dale has put into creating this resource.
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This resource also features building shunting operations for AI trains, which makes for some fascinating activities.
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<h3>Developing Activities - 2</h3>
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The quality of these diagrams reflects the effort that Dale has put into creating this resource.
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Peter Murdock and Dan Reid have collaborated over a set of activities with a tutorial to help people "get started" with shunting activities
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in Open Rails.
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The activities are based on the free BNSF Scenic Route currently being offered by TrainSimulations (<a href="/">see our homepage</a>).
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There's a version for the route prior to 20-Oct-2020 and another for the more recent route. You can find them by searching the
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"Open Rails - Open Rails Activities" section of the <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=displaysearch">TrainSim.com Library</a>
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or download from these links:
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<li>Post 20-Oct-2020 <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=copyright&fid=36266">open_rails_starter_tutorial_2.zip</a></li>
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<li>Pre 20-Oct-2020 <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=copyright&fid=36048">open_rails_starter_tutorial_1_0x.zip</a></li>
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<li>and <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=copyright&fid=36050">open_rails_starter_tutorial_1_1.zip</a></li>
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<h3>Developing Activities - 3</h3>
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Peter Newell has provided <a href="http://www.coalstonewcastle.com.au/physics/demo-activity/">13 simple activities</a>
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each designed to showcase an advanced feature of Open Rails.
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Use them as well for testing your stock by replacing his consists with your own.
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The topics include refilling and refuelling, visual and lighting effects, couplers, bearing temperature and braking.
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<div class="col-md-2">&nbsp;</div>
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