F7 Needs Banking Comm

how do i activate banking comm in the f7 i have a timetable to take a coal train and i have two engines at the rear just before the caboose but there not talking to each other i have the unit selector on 4 but no joy at all

any advice

cheers

 

You can't. Miscommunication within DTG resulted in the F7 not being equipped with the required banking comm.

The unit selector has nothing to do with that. In-game, it's just cosmetic and non-functional. In real life, the unit selector adjusts the electric signal sent to the trailing locos for operating the dynamic brakes (which determines how hard they're applied) to account for natural losses over distance.

 

Something the preservation crew should look into, along with adding whistle boards...

 

so does that mean then that the two timetabel services in clinchfield are useless ?

 

TrainSim-Adam Got any info on this?

 

If you want to actually drive the Clinchfield services with locos at the rear, you only have two options currently:

1. Position the rear camera in such a way, that you can operate the rear loco controls through the window by using the external (rear) camera.
2. Use keyboard shortcuts to switch to the cab of the loco(s) at the back, operate their controls manually as required, and switch back to the leading cab.

With either of those two methods, the trains can be driven in theory but whether that's fun is up to you.

 

thank you all for the responses ill give it a go i hope they do add banking comm to the f7

 

It’s not okay that this still hasn’t been fixed. It should have been an immediate patch if you ask me, along with the brakes being off as default in the SD40 so you don’t just start rolling away when you load a service as you do now.

I believe all the Clinchfield consists for scenario planner have helper locos too so can’t be driven on any other route at present, although I haven’t checked recently if they have added any that don’t have helpers.

 

Well, Clinchfield isn't on the roadmap for preservation updates currently. Maybe they'll move on to it when they get the current route batch released?

 

On the SD40 it's where you contact the train dispatcher US Terminology for a UK Signaller. If you have problems on SD40 Clinchfield CSX-S Expansion Pack where the Banking comm switch is.

 

ive completed it successfully just disconnected the rear locos to complete it as they were useless

 

And fixing the pathing (trains did NOT run through the passing sidings, unless there was a meeting. Slowing to 15 for no good reason is a continual annoyance.)

 

Of course, let’s not forget the stopping points being inches in front of red signals.

 

Massive bug bear of mine. No common sense thought went into those little doozies at all.

 

I suspect that's the only way they got train meetings in the timetable to work since dynamic pathing is not something the dispatcher is capable of. If true, then that probably won't be fixed any time soon, unfortunately.