[10-28 6:06 am] <IgorvanDame> Gaa, not getting any better. I went down to the loop and whacked the back of the one stuck train, it budged a bit then stopped. tried left click and that acted like a sword and removed the car. Tried whacking the third car, still no movement. When I removed it, the train came toward me so the 2nd car was 'stuck' in reverse mode.
[10-28 6:07 am] <CovertJaguar> make sure the arrows are point in the same direction on the tracks
[10-28 6:07 am] <IgorvanDame> Got the 4 car trains running again, but despite the fact that all chunks are loaded (at least the anchor/sentinal's are paired) the cart trains seem to stop when they get to the edge of my sight distance
[10-28 6:08 am] <IgorvanDame> the one-way arrows all point in a counter-clockwise direstion
[10-28 6:09 am] <IgorvanDame> they'll unload and go down the rails ... I wait ... nothing. when I appraoch them I find them going forward/backwards because they collided with the train in front of them (the one-way tracks help keep them from traversing the entire length back to me). When I approach, they both go in the right direction and make it to the endstation/loaders
[10-28 6:10 am] <CovertJaguar> =/
[10-28 6:10 am] <IgorvanDame> Confident that they are loading, I leave the area and stand halfway between load/unload areas and wait. Nothing. I walk a bit toward the loaders and the full train pulls out and goes past me
[10-28 6:10 am] <IgorvanDame> I follow it all the way to the unloaders and there is no problem ... but the second train does not come
[10-28 6:11 am] <CovertJaguar> I wonder if its not ticking entities in the force loaded chunks...
[10-28 6:11 am] <IgorvanDame> and so on. When I'm there, they kinda work. When I'm not close to the chunk they are in, they either stop or collide because one did.
[10-28 6:14 am] <IgorvanDame> the loaded chunk is thus: Unloaders at 240 in spawn chunk space that goes to 113. Sentinal at 112 (inside perma loaded area) connected to anchor at -32. second anchor at -48 pairs with sentinal at -174 where the loaders are
[10-28 6:14 am] <IgorvanDame> they are all in the same X coordinate (135)
[10-28 6:15 am] <IgorvanDame> Anchors are lvl 26, trains lvl 49
[10-28 6:16 am] <IgorvanDame> outside of chickens ... and the loaders/salination plants at the one end there are only torches and track elements between
[10-28 6:17 am] <IgorvanDame> I really can't control the passive mob spawns :=P although getting bow practice comes to mind (love throwing eggs at them)
[10-28 6:18 am] <IgorvanDame> I'm not so sure that using an anchor cart will change it much.
[10-28 6:18 am] <IgorvanDame> it would be additional drag (adding more booster tracks) and the load/unload of chunks might cause other problems
[10-28 6:19 am] <IgorvanDame> I was so frustrated last night I manually processed 400 chips in an AE2 inscriber
[10-28 6:21 am] <IgorvanDame> Is there any way to test the state of the chunks .... I have OPIS loaded. It just gives a count of forced chunks, which stays the same now. It never shows *every* chunk in the tunnel loaded (chunk coordinate 8), just some of them
[10-28 6:23 am] <IgorvanDame> oh, and the booster tracks are set up alternating 1 or 2 boosters with 7 standard rails between them
[10-28 6:23 am] <CovertJaguar> just some of them?
[10-28 6:24 am] <IgorvanDame> for the entire run BssssssBBsssssssBxxxxxxBBxxxxxx...
[10-28 6:25 am] <IgorvanDame> every 10 double boosters have a one-way behind them
[10-28 6:25 am] <IgorvanDame> one redstone torch for each spot (I didn't add a second one when I added the second booster)
[10-28 6:25 am] <CovertJaguar> you aren't using Cauldron or anything?
[10-28 6:25 am] <IgorvanDame> nope
[10-28 6:26 am] <IgorvanDame> all my 'stuff' would be in the perma=loaded chunks at the unloaded end
[10-28 6:26 am] <CovertJaguar> would it be possible to back up your world, remove all your mods except railcraft, and see if the issues persist?
[10-28 6:27 am] <IgorvanDame> yes, I can make a copy of the instance and remove everything but Railcraft (although there would be no brine to ship)
[10-28 6:27 am] <CovertJaguar> well I only care if the trains can make it =P
[10-28 6:28 am] <IgorvanDame> I have an RC-only build already
[10-28 6:28 am] <IgorvanDame> um, fill them with water perhaps?
[10-28 6:28 am] <IgorvanDame> oh, that won't work, pipes are mek too
[10-28 6:28 am] <CovertJaguar> well you could, but just a loop works too
[10-28 6:28 am] <IgorvanDame> oh, all you want is can they travel a loop ok
[10-28 6:29 am] <CovertJaguar> make sure you don't have anything like CCC or COFHCore or anything left, not even client only mods
[10-28 6:29 am] <IgorvanDame> that's easy :-)
[10-28 6:29 am] <CovertJaguar> yeah, I'm just trying to narrow down the chunkloading issues
[10-28 6:29 am] <CovertJaguar> because what you describe shouldn't be happening
[10-28 6:29 am] <CovertJaguar> (though I haven't tested it in over a year)
[10-28 6:30 am] <IgorvanDame> ok, I'll set 'er up
[10-28 6:30 am] <IgorvanDame> all this time the empty train has stayed at the edge of my sight distance ... sigh
[10-28 6:31 am] <IgorvanDame> do you care which forge
[10-28 6:31 am] <IgorvanDame> old load has 1208
[10-28 6:32 am] <CovertJaguar> nope
[10-28 6:33 am] <CovertJaguar> that'll only matter if it turns out you can reproduce it with that setup but I can't
[10-28 6:40 am] <IgorvanDame> hmm, look like i'll need to remove the carts and the locking tracks to keep things moving
[10-28 6:40 am] <IgorvanDame> all that is loaded is RC and 3 forge modules
[10-28 6:40 am] <CovertJaguar> forge modules?
[10-28 6:41 am] <IgorvanDame> Ya, forge, FML and FMP 
[10-28 6:41 am] <CovertJaguar> oh, ok
[10-28 6:41 am] <IgorvanDame> or somethign like that
[10-28 6:45 am] <IgorvanDame> ok, well the carts are off ... let's see if this works now
[10-28 6:46 am] <IgorvanDame> I'm still seeing them at the edge of my sight range, not good
[10-28 6:46 am] <IgorvanDame> Im standing at 228
[10-28 6:48 am] <IgorvanDame> I can see the cart train (the second one sent) coming toward me and then reversing when it hits the one-way ... so the first one must be stalled
[10-28 6:50 am] <IgorvanDame> I moved to 160, where the one-way track was, and now the two trains have moved farther down the tracks to the edge of my sight range, but not quite to the loopback/loaders
[10-28 6:52 am] <IgorvanDame> Walked down to 79 where the next one-way was, saw the carts and they travelled off to the edge of my sight range again.
[10-28 6:52 am] <CovertJaguar> mmk...
[10-28 6:53 am] <CovertJaguar> its odd that they stop at the edge of your site range...
[10-28 6:53 am] <IgorvanDame> the first must be stalled, because the second keeps coming back and reversing
[10-28 6:53 am] <CovertJaguar> since that should be a lot closer than the edge of the world
[10-28 6:54 am] <IgorvanDame> well, I assume that they are kinda ignoring the anchor loaded chunks and are reacting to the player loaded chunkspace
[10-28 6:54 am] <CovertJaguar> this might not be related to chunkloading at all...rather some kind of artificial constraint
[10-28 6:54 am] <IgorvanDame> oddly F9 is not working on this load, or I would try to count chunks in my sight range
[10-28 6:54 am] <CovertJaguar> F9 is a mod feature
[10-28 6:54 am] <IgorvanDame> ? really?
[10-28 6:54 am] <IgorvanDame> oh
[10-28 6:55 am] <CovertJaguar> NEI I think
[10-28 6:55 am] <IgorvanDame> ah, ok
[10-28 6:55 am] <IgorvanDame> been about 3 months since I played vanilla
[10-28 6:55 am] <IgorvanDame> when this all started
[10-28 6:56 am] <IgorvanDame> made a long tunnel and learned that trains wouldn't travel down it without me ... gee that would be my problem now, sigh
[10-28 6:57 am] <IgorvanDame> In the vanilla world, the tunnel was 4000 blocks long