An activity on the Surfliner 2 route requires a player to be both a freight and a passenger train. Due to the fact that the passenger phase of the activity has a timetable, but the freight portion does not, the F9 window begins recording station stops immediately. As a result, the F9 window records a station stop as "Missed Stop" long before the passenger phase of the activity has begun. See the below example:
1)Activity starts South of the first station stop, but requires you to travel North of the first station stop to drop your freight train and pick up your passenger train.
2)In order to access the freight yard, which is North of the station, you pass through the first station stop. As a freight train, you would not be required to stop at the station.
3)Timestamp in the F9 window shows that the time is 20 minutes before your scheduled departure time, but F9 window records the station stop as a "Missed Stop".
4)After dropping the freight cars and picking up the passenger cars, then reversing back to the first station stop, the "Missed Stop" will not clear.
Although this is probably due to a poorly written activity, shouldn't OR be able to distinguish between a freight train and a passenger train? The freight train should, theoretically, be able to pass through the first station without being penalized, as it is not yet a passenger train. Once the passenger cars are picked up, then the classification should change from freight to passenger. This would prevent the F9 window from recording a missed station stop until the passenger phase of the activity has begun.
I did notice that this issue only occurs with the first station stop. There were two other stations that the freight train passed through, but did not get recorded as "Missed Stop" in the F9 window.
James, can you pls. provide an OpenRailsLog.txt file for this?