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Mark: I am not connected with Albion in any way. I somply like the product. I did read your posts, and my last message was not in reply to your posts on the 14th, but rather what you posted on 3/11, where your first lines was: "I tried it and gave up in disgust". I took that line to mean that you did not complete the project, and therefore do not have a complete understanding of the program, as much as someone who did. Am I implying you are uninteligent? NO. And my intent is not to attack you personally. In your post on the 15th, you refer to "pros" who say you have to feed false information to the program to make it work. Who are these "pros"? Feeding false information to the program is a useful shortcut, and as any properly used tool, it can make things easier. Is lying to the program required? No. Early versions had a bug, which was fixed in later versions. Lying to the program is a simple way to save time, and the time consumption was one point your were complaining about. The program is large, and it's complex. That's why the Yahoo forum is great support for the people who use it. There are important short cuts though. I, like most people, tried to input everything up front, they you will pull your hair out, when the program fails and you can't figure out why. Most of the "pros" will tell you, to make small changes that are easily tracked, and run sessions to verify. I'll give you my secret: Wipe out bith the prinary and secondary databases. Input into both bases only the basic info; trains, schedules, towns. Then in the secondary input only one shipper/consignee/product,and base number of cars. Now you can generate sessions in blinding speed,and can easily track failures, and make corrections, and run verifying sessions. When everything is sorted out with that shipper/consignee, duplicate the info into the primary, and test run. I did this 14 times until I had the layout running smoothly. MOPAC 1
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