Greetings!

The Activity Editor included with MSTS is daunting to say the least. Thankfully, you guys who participated in the trainsim forum at www.trainsim.com made understanding it easy. What I did was to compile from alot of the posts, the question/answer segments into one pdf document. I created this for myself and have found it easy to read up on situations when I encounter them. I hope this helps you all too. :-)

Here's some quick annotations I used in the pdf in case you are wondering...

Some editing was done, mostly spelling corrections.

   I left off names of people to protect the innocent.

   I included names of people where I thought was applicable (say for a website owner for        example)
   Each new question, or tip starts with its heading from the Activity forum (if      appropriate) or a Q: (Arial font 11, in bold)

   Each answer starts with a A:
     Several answers could have been provided for one question so you will sometimes see:
     A1: Answer 1
     A2: Answer 2 and so forth...

   You may see:
     Info: for information
     Tip: for tip
     Reply: someone replying to something said previously
     Response: usually the same person responding to their own question (it happens alot)

I created the document starting with the early pages and then moved forward. However, questions aren't in topical order. Sorry!

Bookmarks are available, use them to go to questions quickly.

And thanks to all for the locos, passenger cars, freight cars, and activities and so forth to make this sim more complete than provided for out of the box.

I hope to do the same for making our own engines and whatever else can be done with this sim.

By the way... you'll need Adobe's AcroRead if you don't have it. www.adobe.com. It is free.

Let's see.. oh yeah.. I reckon I should add this since I always see these disclaimers in everything I download. I'm not responsible for content or whatever could go wrong if you use the information in this document. Oh... you can upload this document where ever you want, cause I figure the more of us out there working with msts, the more train stuff I'll be able to use :-)

Rich Garber
rgarber@vnet.net (if you have any questions, or something you want to add)
