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30 | 30 | Activities are also useful in providing tutorials to help you get the most out of Open Rails. |
31 | 31 | See Australia's Zig-Zag Railway for <a href="http://www.zigzag.coalstonewcastle.com.au/">some very effective steam-based tutorials</a>. |
32 | 32 | </p> |
33 | | - <h3>Developing Activities</h3> |
| 33 | + <h3>Developing Activities - 1</h3> |
34 | 34 | <p> |
35 | 35 | 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 |
36 | 36 | and even videos</a> to show how to create both simple and demanding activities. |
37 | | - </p> |
38 | | - <p align="center"> |
| 37 | + </p><p align="center"> |
39 | 38 | <img id="guide" src="guideexample.jpg"/> |
| 39 | + </p><p> |
| 40 | + The quality of these diagrams reflects the effort that Dale has put into creating this resource. |
| 41 | + </p><p> |
| 42 | + This resource also features building shunting operations for AI trains, which makes for some fascinating activities. |
40 | 43 | </p> |
| 44 | + <h3>Developing Activities - 2</h3> |
41 | 45 | <p> |
42 | | - The quality of these diagrams reflects the effort that Dale has put into creating this resource. |
| 46 | + Peter Murdock and Dan Reid have collaborated over a set of activities with a tutorial to help people "get started" with shunting activities |
| 47 | + in Open Rails. |
| 48 | + </p><p> |
| 49 | + The activities are based on the free BNSF Scenic Route currently being offered by TrainSimulations (<a href="/">see our homepage</a>). |
| 50 | + 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 |
| 51 | + "Open Rails - Open Rails Activities" section of the <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=displaysearch">TrainSim.com Library</a> |
| 52 | + or download from these links: |
| 53 | + <ul> |
| 54 | + <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> |
| 55 | + <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> |
| 56 | + <li>and <a href="https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/tslib.php?do=copyright&fid=36050">open_rails_starter_tutorial_1_1.zip</a></li> |
| 57 | + </ul> |
| 58 | + </p> |
| 59 | + <h3>Developing Activities - 3</h3> |
| 60 | + <p> |
| 61 | + Peter Newell has provided <a href="http://www.coalstonewcastle.com.au/physics/demo-activity/">13 simple activities</a> |
| 62 | + each designed to showcase an advanced feature of Open Rails. |
| 63 | + Use them as well for testing your stock by replacing his consists with your own. |
| 64 | + </p><p> |
| 65 | + The topics include refilling and refuelling, visual and lighting effects, couplers, bearing temperature and braking. |
43 | 66 | </p> |
44 | 67 | <div class="col-md-2"> </div> |
45 | 68 | </div> |
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