Laurreth

Right, enabling shunting seems to get me through the process of changing trains. Afterwards, I cannot get back to ETCS surveillance. No matter what I do, I get stopped for "runaway train movement" after entering all train data and trying to go through the signal; I can get going in SHP mode, but there is no block entry so I just get stuck in there, which is "fun" without track signage or any meaningful track maps. The scenario then proceeds to serve an almost impossible emergency stop, and after slipping through the red signal the train gets completely stuck. Also, it's not possible to save because, well, ETCS cannot be saved. Guess I'll put this one back on the pile of shame and check back in a year, maybe it's become more accessible or something.

Pressing the "shunting" option does not appear to do anything, from what I've seen I should get a little old-fashioned switcher locomotive symbol though. Are there any preconditions that need to be met before it works? (edit) It seems like I have to hold the "shunting" option pressed for a few seconds and release to actually request it. Will try it in the scenario.

I tried that, and ended up in a situation where the game limited me to 20 km/h for apparently the entire return trip (I gave up eventually). The display doesn't go back to showing anything but that status message in the top left, it's like a disabled cabin.

I've been trying to run the "Pruszkowski's Intermodal" scenario for some time. After arriving in Pruszków and trying to shunt, the ECTS screen eventually goes blank to the "EVC not connected!" message and cannot be revived. This seems to be a bit of a total blocker, since it feels very much like ECTS remains active in the background and will stop you if you try continue shunting. Searching the web doesn't bring up much productive other than a few reports that might be somewhat related, although most seem to be related to multiplayer. Is there any way to actually get through that scenario, or run anything involving ECTS successfully? I'd hate wasting more time on something that's just broken.