Sherman Hill Problem

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  1. Jeannot41

    Jeannot41 Well-Known Member

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    Purchased without much conviction. After unsuccessful tests on chapter 1, scenario 4, Hermosa-triage of Cheyenne, where I was never able to get the convoy to leave, because the brakes were still blocked.
    I have been in all the other locomotives and each one had the brake lever on.
    Should we delete them all one by one?
    And no instructions for this route.
    Refund not made because played for more than 2 hours.
    If anyone has any schemes to move those damn convoys forward, I'm a taker.

    Excuse my English. Google Translate
     
  2. fanta1682002

    fanta1682002 Well-Known Member

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    wa very good route i very like
     
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    Hey Jeannot, had a similar issue, resolved by waiting a lot after releasing the Auto Brakes. If you have the Banking Comm on, just wait till the rear brake is at least at 75. It takes a few minutes, but after that I was able to leave the yard. Hope it will work for you too!
     
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    Jeannot41 Well-Known Member

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    I went up to 85 at least.
    I waited, waited, but I couldn't get this damn train to go.
    But is it normal that in other locomotives, the brake levers are tight?
    Anyway, thank you for the helping hand :)
     
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  5. Rudolf

    Rudolf Well-Known Member

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    Other locos should have brake in handle off, brake setitng to cutout and the engines must be set to tail and engine run must be set to off

    This holds for all locos directly connected to the lead engine. If you have engines at the rear, the first must be a lead engine, the others must be set to trail. In the first engine of the consist, you must set banking on. This all should be set properly for you already.
     
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  6. chieflongshin

    chieflongshin Well-Known Member

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    Have you completed both tutorials?
    I wait until rear is showing nearly 80, notch 2, banking comm on and it will get underway

    have you pressed both brake settings in multi function display?
     
  7. Jeannot41

    Jeannot41 Well-Known Member

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    Yes
    I did the tutorials, and I made both brake settings in the multifunction display.
     
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    chieflongshin Well-Known Member

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    That’s bizarre, it’s not something I’ve experienced to be honest. I always think

    press three switches
    Set brakes in mfd to “lead cut in”
    Release brakes to charge
    Turn on banking comm
    Put reverser in
    Notch 2 and independent brake on
    Wait 10 mins
    Release independent brake

    Only other suggestion is pop a video up. Good luck
     
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  9. Jeannot41

    Jeannot41 Well-Known Member

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    Activate banking communication?
    Which button is that?

    It is only this scenario that I have a problem with.
     
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    Banking Comm ptt
     
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    The banking com is the box above the control stand, the switch to turn it on is the one to the right, by itself. Hover over it and see what it says, it is off by default. Again to reinforce what others have noted, wait until the air number in the 'rear' is over 75. this will take at least 5 minutes and maybe more. I fire up Microsoft Solitaire and play a game or two while waiting.
     
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    OK thanks a lot
     
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    Banking Comm needs to be turned on prior to putting the reverser into forward, otherwise the locos at the rear will remain with their reverser in neutral when you apply the throttle.
     
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    Understood! I'm trying.
    Thank you
     
  15. chieflongshin

    chieflongshin Well-Known Member

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    Any joy? What service are you doing?
     
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    Chapter 1, scenario 4, Hermosa-triage of Cheyenne
     
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    Jeannot41 it takes about 10 minutes to pump up the brake pipe from zero. This is prototypical. When your front of train has reached pressure, the back will still be pumping for ages. In the SD70ACE you can see this on the display with "rear" pressure which is a tiny number under the two big main pressure numbers. The SD40-2 has no way of showing it but there is a way, use the 3 camera to go to the back of the train (press 3 twice) and look in the window of the rear locomotive at the brake gauge there.

    I talk you through the process in my hill start in the snow tutorial and I also talk about it in my editorial on the route

    If you need more help after watching either or both of them give me a yell. Happy to help.

    Paul
     
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    My Windows doesn't seem to have Solitaire. I used to love that game (and Minesweeper)! ;)
     
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    Microsoft have made those games downloadable (free) apps rather than bundling them into the Windows installation.
     
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    You really need XBox Live on your PC and the Solitaire collection is then available.
     
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    Isn't there an EOTD box like on the CSX version?
     
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    Does anybody know why the F7 in CRR seems to be able to blow up the brake pipe of a whole train like a balloon in a couple of seconds, even after an emergency application and with the throttle idling?
     
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    The worse issue is in the SWITHCRO scenario, at one end of the yard, the game is showing a red light, where there is no red light, and it makes you fail the game every time you try to move the wagon in place.

    The red light is only showing when going into the 1000 mile place you use to change direction that you have to walk the 1000mile in both direction to change the switch side
     
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    Does it? The only way to know would be to use the 3 camera and fly inside the caboose to read the brakeman's gauge.
     
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    Yes. Starting from 0 psi (front and rear) after an emergency application the pressure at the front seems to be back at 90 psi within seconds, at the rear it is back at 70 psi in less than a minute, then it slows down and takes like two to three more minutes tops until it is back at 90 psi. With selector in idle and throttle in idle.
    (at least this is what I got at e.g. CRR 94 Southbound Manifest.)
     
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    I think its the brakes. They take a long time because its a really long train. Its good they have simulated this.
     
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    That's the thing. In the case of the F7, this happens super fast (in comparison), and I wonder why.
     
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    You mean with that engine in this route? This is the first route to have 100 car intermodal trains.
     
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    Shorter trains. And possibly worse simulation?
     
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    Hi Paul,

    If you want snow, you need to watch the outside temperature, if it is above zero, the snow will melt soon. I think only in January you will get snow. Thanks for your demo anyway, half an hour is reasonable for a tutorial.
     
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    You get snow in November, December, January and February on Sherman Hill. Snow level is selectable for those months in the service menu.
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    But if the temperatures are above 0 °C, then the snow will melt pretty much instantly.
     
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    They need to link the temperature system to the snow slider, so if you want snow it drops the temperature a few degrees to allow you to have snow. Simple enough to do. I think they use the average temperature for the region to set the temperature for the months but temperatures do drop below average in real life, it’s kind of how averages work. It’s currently pointless having a snow slider if it doesn’t give you snow.
     
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    To speak of CRR, I have also noted that the F7 brings the brakes up to where you can move the train very quickly, but the SD40, like SH, takes a very long time to pump up the train so you can get moving. Outside of the 2 different locomotives in CRR the trains they are pulling are similar so it has to be something with the physics of the F7.
     
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  35. VolvoB10M

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    I have had the same problem but I get the train pipe blown up to 89 yet it will not move. What is with the cascader system, there is no mention of that but I can't get the train to move as it is not running even though it is cut in along with everything else.
     
  36. KoeleKoen

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    Make sure you have banking comm set to ON if you happen to have loco's at the rear
     
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    Is that fitted? I don't see any multiple working cables on the waggons, I assumed the loco at the back is for extra air to compensate for leaks along the length of the train.
     
  38. solicitr

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    The locos at the rear are there to push! "Banking comm" abstracts Distributed Power, which on modern US locos means radio (not hardwire) remote control. If it's not turned on, the locos at the back are dead weight and you don't have enough horsepower to move the train.
     
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  39. VolvoB10M

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    Is the system actually controlling the rear loco via radio signals or is there a second driver in the banking loco receiving verbal instructions off the leading driver?
     
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    They are remote units without anyone in them. They respond to any changes you make to the controls in the cab of the loco you are in. This banker com is a way for DTG to simulate what an actual DPU device would accomplish since they have not gotten it sorted as to how to do this. Matt did post in an earlier thread that he would have some of his crew look into getting it done. Actual DPU is fairly complicated with it having the ability to 'slave' the DPU unit to the front loco's controls or setting up what is called "the fence" which then separates the DPU's from the front and the driver can then control them separately via the DPU controls.
     
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    The former is correct: controlling the rear loco(s) via radio signals. Although DTG have confused things a bit by using the same in-game abstraction, "banking comms," also to represent the way it used to be done (and with older locos still is), which indeed was a separate crew receiving verbal instructions over voice radio. So if for example you are running SD40-2's top-and-tail on Sand Patch Grade, that's what's being represented.

    (In future, it would be nice if DTG could distinguish the two systems, and perhaps put an NPC engineer and conductor in the trailing MU of SD-40 consists)
     
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    How would the radio system work if there was interference from a passing train or loss of signal? Also does DPU refer to the loco on the back and how would the driver be able to control three power controllers at the same time?
     
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    It does happen sometimes when traveling through a busy yard or mountainous terrain. The radio signal may be lost temporarily, but is usually recovered quickly. Radio frequencies are chosen automatically from an available range to provide the best signal between the lead and trails so as to avoid interference. All DPU's would be on the same frequency at all times and the engineer can control the entire train from his lead cab. If radio contact is lost for more than a short time, I believe all trailing locos have a default throttle position ( 3 or 4? ). There are also hard wired versions of DP using the brake lines, but I'm not sure how widely they are used in North America. Cab cars often use some version of this wiring.
     
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    The driver only needs radio control of the lead loco in the DPU. It’s a unit; that is, all the rear locos are hardwired together just like the front locos, using the same MU protocol which has been around forever. In a real life DP setup, the driver can either have the DPU slaved to his own brakes and throttle, OR he can separate them off to control independently; this becomes necessary at those times, like cresting a summit, where you might want one MU pulling and the other braking
     
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    November -2.5C
    December -5.4C
    January -5.1C
    February -2.1C
     

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