So I settled down yesterday to do something and IOW original caught my eye as I had a scenario to do in journey mode. Got on at Ryde pier to the AI train to take me to my waiting tin can on wheels. Did start-up okay, was slightly late to timetable as I was fiddling with the master key at the wrong end (don't ask). Started the timetable, and after a couple of stops I was getting progressvely behind schedule. By the time I got towards Shanklin, I was five minutes behind. Not overly bothered since I was driving smoothly and to speed limits. As I was shutting the cab down, I moved the reverser to take out the key the wrong way (up instead of down on controller)... "Forward 2" The reason I was late was because I'd only put forward 1 on (though I think it starts in that on this scenario). I'd completely forgotten it had two positions...
Almost akin to the DB 155 scenario I was struggling with a few weeks ago. Quick play kept throwing it at me, but several times I abandoned it as running the engine light to attach the wagons kept grinding to a halt like running on Velcro. Brakes off, tried with and without safety systems enabled. Purely by chance on about the fifth attempt, it dawned on me to check the handbrake. After finding it, yep firmly applied - no wonder the loco wasn't moving very far. In mitigation it's the only scenario or run I've ever started where the traction unit had the hand/parking brake applied. With no prompt to check it. Guess I learned something that day!
For this one, since you don't start in the train you need to actually drive, and its also (I think) the last scenario in journey mode, it doesn't give you any instructions aside from the "go here" ones so I assume since its the last scenario in the set that you know how to set up and drive the train, but I'd actually come off the back of doing a timetable run on Bakerloo normal, so the two forward positions just completely escaped me, ha I'm okay with the lack of specific instructions at the last scenario in a set since you should have gone through all the training in the previous ones, but I hadn't done IOW in such a long time. Interestingly it didn't feel like it was crawling at forward 1, it was still moving what I thought was a decent pace. I did however try a brief test with it on restart with forward 2, and it was like a bat out of hell
FredElliott IOW was on the last Playstation sale and quite reduced. I was tempted to get it since I enjoy IOW 2022 pretty much for a short ride at the county side. Apart from the usual Rivet bashing (yes, there ARE bugs) I think the route is very nicely modeled, including the rolling stock. Do you think it is worth to get the original IOW?
I love the origional IOW. But keep in mind, it is by now a little dated. But even just sitting on the dock or as a passenger, this route is so calming and nice.
When it's on sale yes, its a nice contrast to the 2022 version. Most of the scenery itself is the same (some possibily remodelled), but all the stations are different in some fashion as the new trains that were put into service were taller than the old one, so all the stations had to (at minimum) have all their platforms raised, and I think as part of that some were modernised too. You also drive a train that is basically the same as 1938 tube stock too, which as you'd expect is very different to the one in IOW2022. Nothing has changed about the route itself though, aside (I think) from some small sections that may have been re-double tracked
In real life, drivers only used Forward 1 for maintenance reasons, and it is generally all you need to keep to the time on most runs in IOW. It’s nice to have a Forward 2 blast every now and then but if you want to drive prototypically then stay in Forward 1. In scenarios it’s usually a lack of time included to do all the switching things on and off etc that causes you to slip behind schedule, just like the lack of setup time for timetable runs that plagues a lot of older routes.
Interesting, not going to dispute since I don't know real life working in the slightest, but the manual does say: " Move the Reverser to the desired direction. Two forward positions can be set, Forward 1 reduces the overall power output and should be used when railhead conditions are less than ideal, such as when it is raining or snowing. Forward 2 is used when the railhead conditions are dry."
