It's not an idle sound though. Note the position of the "compressor speedup" switch in the cab. EDIT: Compressor speed-up will run up the engine...
This manual from BNSF might be useful to you. ABTH-05-040710.pdf (fobnr.org)
Definitely bad practice. In the US (more in the past than currently) it was common to "stretch brake" where you bail off the locomotive brakes and...
You get what you pay for. In this case the DLC is 5 GBP which means you can't expect all the features you would of something more expensive.
Haha, no I wouldn't compare those either. Just a fun (to me) nit pick :D
Depends on how long the train and the platforms are :D Some of the stations that accommodate ICE trains in Germany are insanely long, nearly 500...
Regarding this part "or find a balance where you get some dynamic brake and some air brake". I have asked two different drivers now (with...
Yes this is what I meant by this: "IRL if the BR101 is driving coaches with TB0 then simply moving the door selector away from "close all" will...
As far as I understand it the BR101 uses the door system called SST-F ("Seitenselektive Türsteuerung Fernverkehr"). This system allows the driver...
What you state regarding "R" vs "P" and "G"-brake is correct. :) G-brake: applies (emergency) to 95% of max pressure in 18-30 seconds and...
I don't feel comfortable giving an assessment on whether the brakes on the BR110 or BR103 are realistic or not. I haven't tested them (with...
This is not correct. Germany (and many other UIC-countries) have been using R-brake for passenger trains since the 1940s. P- and G-brake are used...
I am by no means an expert on NORAC/NEC signals so I will refrain from giving too much details regarding what signal aspects to expect in...
That's not what Quora says! ;) (inside joke, definitely do listen to Whitsim)
Oh by the way. Regarding "how much" you should set the throttle level to when making train brake applications: As far as I know there is no strict...
You're not confused, that's exactly how it works :D Some more detail in case anyone is interested. When the train brake is applied the control...
Thanks for taking the time to make the video, very much appreciated! I have some good news: I was not able to reproduce the issue following your...
Maybe I'm "old school" but I don't think it is reasonable to have safety systems enabled and expect that the HUD will give enough information for...
Truly a representative picture of what the Acela looks like in TSW3 :D
I haven't been able to reproduce this issue. Would it be possible for you to make a video of the issue? :)
Maybe it was Brandon's signal tutorial? [MEDIA]
I thought I'd start a thread sharing some of the stuff I learned about the Acela during development and also point out some of the physics/systems...
Did you acknowledge the alarm? You need to both move the brake handle to Suppression and acknowledge ACSES (or ATC).
You need to move the train brake handle (ABCL) to **at least** the Handle Off position before the emergency brakes can be released.
Afaik DTG are aware of this issue and it seems to be caused by enabling safety systems **before** "activating the cab" (as the game knows it, i.e....
According to whom?
You actually don't have enough data to make that assertion. The train has already reached the speed where the fans start up in the video.
Keep in mind that a big fraction of the player base for TSW comes from consoles (last and current gen). Also I'm not sure why you are using...
According to the reviews I've seen the i9 13900k is faster than the 5800x3d (on average 6%). But obviously it's quite a bit more expensive and...
It is like that IRL. 500 Hz magnets are not mandatory depending on the length of the overlap.
Also: I heard that one of the big reasons for regular hitch in TSW is not due to loading in a new tile but rather it has something to do with...
Even the "slowest" one of those is about 4 times as fast as 6 Gbps SATA (assuming you're not actually using SATA connectors :D ) The NVMe M.2 I'm...
I'm considering buying an M.2 drive, but I already have my game installed on an SATA SSD. Any idea if this will noticeably improve (reduce)...
Maybe double check that the timetable isn't tighter than it is IRL. Also, maybe you are relying a bit too much on the speed selector? The BR143...
Old news (and perhaps even mentioned already) but the "tick rate" of the dynamic weather engine is once per 10 minutes.
Oh sorry, yeah replace Bedingter with Freier and vice versa in my reply. I would say that Bedingter Auslauf is used quite often in real life when...
What I usually do is to move the speed selector to "Off" with the mouse. That way I can move it so quickly that it won't go into electric braking....
Setting the force lever to zero is not a common driving technique IRL as far as I am aware. It's been a while since I last drove the BR143 in TSW...
Usually the model used for train resistance is something called the Davis equation (or a similar variant). In this model the train resistance...
It didn't take DTG 2 years to develop SPG, it took them "2 years" to develop TSW. However, I take your point. We won't know how fast the SimRail...
It's not that the train starts without air, I'm pretty sure the rear starts at around 3.4 bar, but the DRA wagons are very slow to charge. This...
The BR101 is not really setup to realistically drive freight trains at the moment (that might change in the future but it might not, there's a lot...
It depends what the initial condition is. Pumping up the main reservoir line and especially the auxiliary reservoirs (usually 100-200 L on...
Curve drag (or curve resistance) is not currently (to my knowledge and I'm pretty confident about this assertion) simulated in TSW, but there is...
So the 5 min timing was not with a BR101 or is it layering in as a freight loco on MSB :o ?
No worries :) I always prefer equations because then there is less room for misunderstanding (but of course it might be a bit intimidating or...
Maybe less visually appealing but I'd rather just have an acceleration value as a detachable HUD indication from the main HUD. Simugraph supports...
Force is actually mass times acceleration. Mass times change in momentum would be proportional to mass squared. :) Force is also the change in...
Am I missing something? The HUD already has a gradient indicator. :D Or wait, you mean in the same format as ”next signal/speed limit”?
Simugraph (and in turn TSW) simulates rolling resistance, and air resistance. Since rolling resistance as a force is proportional to the mass of...
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