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Hi Andy,
It sounds as if you don't have a 'normal' MSTS installation, or the Registry has some incorrect information.

If you really only have the S&DJR mini-route and, probably, NWE v3.0 set up as a "mini-route", then you need to 'tell' Open Rails where they are. From the Open Rails menu, click on the Options button (bottom, right of centre) then click on the Content tab; you can now add your two non-default installations to OR. Note that you should change the "Name" value to something meaningful!

Cheers,
Ged

Hi Andy,
While you're looking at the Content screen, the Path and Name shown at the bottom is only a repeat of the highlighted profile at the top of the inner window.
Beside "Path" you'll see an Add button and beside "Name" is a Delete button. Ignore the Delete button for now! If you click on the Add button you'll be taken to a normal Windows "Browse for folder" dialogue. You have to navigate to the MSTS root folder (usually Train Simulator) then click on it; it will now appear at the bottom of the list on the Open Rails Options screen and in the Path and Name boxes at the bottom. You can edit the Name box to be something meaningful - it might just say Train Simulator or something equally ambiguous! Then click the OK button.

As the S&DJR is the only profile in your Open Rails list, it sounds as if your "default" MSTS installation is not correctly set up, otherwise OR would have found it. On the other hand, if you don't want to run MSTS and have only set up the files/folders to run Open Rails, then you don't have a problem - just follow the above paragraph to add your NWE installation into Open Rails.

In your basic MSTS setup, as well as the default folders you mentioned, you should also have the root GLOBAL and SOUND folders.

Cheers,
Ged

Hi Andy,
Glad you've got it sorted

Cheers,
Ged

EDIT : You wrote :

I have copied the Global and main Sound files from the main 1MSTS folder to each of the six basic routes.

It may be how it's written, but you don't put the GLOBAL and SOUND folders from your 1MSTS folder into any route's folder!  They must go into the folder which contains the ROUTES folder. If that is 1MSTS, then you don't need to change it. I still feel that your Registry has incorrect data, if any. If you need any more help, please come back using PM or email.