A similar evolution happened with US diesels, and for much the same reason: steam engines always had the cab at the back looking down a long...
Besides, your visibility is way better from the blunt end than looking down the side of the nose. With the Class 20, BR eventually just decided...
I have developed great affection for the primitive little Gronk and its quirks.
No reason to expect a release this week; in the March 23 Roadmap it was listed under "Upcoming," meaning not until after April 6.
Fireman Mode absolutely should be included. In fact, it could be worked into the Journey progression, because on most RR a newbie started as a...
FS can expend memory and GPU power on distant scenery because it needn't worry about close up scenery.
The 101 ohne Fuhrerstandwagen is a done deal. However, it's possible that the hue and cry might cause DTG to think twice before repeating the...
Same as me. Don't expect anything to happen in two hours.
Yes, I know that. I'm talking about adjacent layers that refuse to group - even ones which had previously been grouped together!
I'll take just about any US freight route, contemporary or vintage, so long as we get a variety of settings and rolling stock (please, let's not...
It means they can take advantage of the full 2000 hp- but it doesn't give them any more than they have. Besides, 6% is steep, but it only...
Yes. The problem apparently has to do with shapes that have been rotated suddenly deciding they don't want to play nice with unrotated shapes....
Another example, a game of Telephone, esp interesting given an 'official' shade: [IMG] On the right is the default BR 423. The color, in-game,...
Dynamic brakes of necessity cannot produce more braking force than the same motors and transformer can produce positive tractive force. While you...
No, I read "if electric brakes alone can no longer hold the train" as meaning that you then use dynamic and vacuum together, i.e. blended. Which...
This is a repost from the Creative Centre area, but I think it should be emphasized. Here's an example of what I'm talking about. This is a...
Oh, where I come from "coupling" definitely means the joining of two parts. :cool:
Somebody with RW knowledge correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that mainline engineers' hourly pay rates are much too pricey for the sort...
It's in a way a deliberate "bug"- acc to Matt, the signal system programmers have signals display that by default if instructed to display an...
This is a longstanding and often reported bug with the 1972 Stock. But no action at all on a fix. Yes, the throttle simply cuts out, at random...
With two loading screens each way.
No, they aren't. And as I said above, I have an inkling that what they're doing is a workaround because the wonky modeling doesn't allow proper...
That does make sense. In fact, some time ago I posted as to how conceptually it would be done- currently a route checks to see what other DLC is...
That's exactly the situation modeled by "banking comms" with the SD40 and GP48, which is why DTG put that switch on the voice radio: it abstracts...
Exactly. The speed curve on a downhill should resemble, precisely, the teeth of a saw. Air brakes on, decelerate, off, accelerate, repeat. With...
Not to mention Grope Lane in Shrewsbury- the real name has an additional four letters.....
What can happen is that they actually melt- so now the wheels are running in a lubricant of liquid iron. This happened at, e.g., San Bernardino,...
But that's the thing, Nat. The issue here is that the physics at present appear not to be realistic: the simulated train derails under...
I had a sale break down incomplete last night- after PayPal sent the money (grrrr)
Okay, that makes sense. I agree. The thing is, at least to date DTG have never gone back and created layers in an earlier route to incorporate a...
Again, layering CANNOT CHANGE LIVERIES. If SKA used the HMA 423s, they would be S-Bahn Munchen 423s. Just as with the ubiquitous Dostos: no matter...
That seems to be found across all routes; some services apparently are too simple to be worth gold.
Layering never changes the livery or anything else about the 'borrowed' rolling stock: it's taken as-is.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about. This is a project I'm working on; the one on the left is DTG YN2, the one on the right is my start on...
I believe those are Pantone color codes. 7408 is definitely a golden yellow, HsvColor H 46.34, S 100% V 96.47%. 166 is H 20.81 S 97.8% V 89.02%,...
Well, two of my perennial suggestions would definitely be different: 1) A vintage German route 2) An Amtrak or Via route, since after the demise...
And in the USA too, where monstrous 100-plus car freight trains are the norm. For all the stated reasons, dynamics are your primary when...
This has been brought up before. In fact, the S12, S13 and S19 all run Koln-Duren or Koln-Horrem, and all use the 423. The 422 is simply the...
Or otherwise nonfunctional? Have never had a problem before, but this time I made a purchase about 3 hours ago, using PayPal (who definitely sent...
That's backwards.
That could work; what I do is select all the letters all the letters at default size one on top of the other just as they come out of the chute,...
It should, but it doesn't. I scored a gold on an otherwise unplayable (bugged) service by leaving off safety systems, speeding outrageously and...
We are living in the Age of the Offense Puritans. Not all that different a mindset from Cotton Mather's originals.
To check the points you can pause the game and examine the map from the pause screen at leisure. You can't set them from there, but at least you...
Before doing anything else with a German freight train, determine which PZB mode applies- you can do it the official way, as Richard laid out...
Just ignore the instruction and start loading coal. It will beep out on its own.
As always with railways, the lowest applicable speed limit governs. Which is why it's common with German freight to have a Mode M train that is...
Quite so. Negative feedback is natural, expected and even welcomed; where the toxicity comes in is the posts which simply slag off DTG (or Rivet)...
Well, except for speed boards and Morpeth boards. And on vintage lines like NTP and TVL, with the old cutout speed boards- those things are...
Apparently in older installations, it was a pure deadman's pedal without a timer, but drivers quickly found that if they "accidentally" left...
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