Next time you're in a truck stop, notice that all the rigs in the parking lot are idling away while their drivers eat/shower/buy snacks. And since...
Quite possibly less that it takes to prime and start them up in the morning. An idling diesel burns an elf's thimble worth of fuel.
On any hill start, don't release brakes until you have enough amps to the motors to overcome gravity. Depending on the grade and the train...
Known, bug. Not the camera. Problem appears to be incorrect modeling of main brake reservoir recharge.
A well-known, longstanding and widely-reported bug. See the thread "Problem Line Bakerloo."
If they ever do a NYC subway route, that would be a perfect simulation of real life......
Although if one wants to be picky about anachronism, no ex-CRR locomotive was still wearing Clinchfield paint* by the time CSX adopted YN3b in...
That seems backwards.
Yes, posts are so very persuasive when they use rhetoric like "stupid" and "lazy"........
A couple of tweaks to LD for the CRR locomotives: on the F7 you can now paint the trucks and underpinnings; and on the other hand the SD40 comes...
Substitutions and layers are different things. There is a lot of substitution, especially with German rolling stock, because it's relatively easy...
Ha! Mastered the 8! Also tweaked the N, which wasn't quite right [IMG]
A big obstacle is simply that it's way more complicated and time-consuming to build content for TSW than TS. I don't just mean more detailed...
On the 146 and 185 it's on the back wall, the same panel as the emergency brake buttons. On some others, it's under the desk top to the right.
According to most US RRs' operating rules, not only do you have to sound the horn at all whistle posts, level crossings and platforms, and when...
A class 31 in NTP?
The first service they throw you into after the tutorials is Limited Power......
In general, Stop At markers mean "Front end of train here", not "Your keister here." In reversing moves, that can make quite a difference.
Or 8000 horsepower when the 7HDL engine breaks down, as it habitually does. Or rather, did, becase there isn't a single one left running on a US...
In timetable mode that's no problem. But in Journry mode you're stuck with it
Not true.
PC. FWIW my "driver level" is 180-something, but I had to restart from 0 in the changeover from TSW2020.
IIRC, UP sold about half of them, but kept the rest.
Specifically what it does is kill the power to the coil which creates the generator's standing field. With that neutralized, the generator...
Really? Try it. I promise you, your engines will not budge from idle with Gen Field off.
Error in gameplay design. If I had to guess, the service was designed in nice weather, but then somebody had the bright idea of setting it in...
If you are trying to reproduce real life, that would be done by another employee- the engineer doesn't do it himself!
I'm going to go ahead and call this one done: [IMG] Still not happy with the painted road number, because I simply could not find a way within...
Buck up! I did it successfully the first time. But use the map to turn the switches, and the free camera to uncouple.
The caboose weighs nearly nothing compared to a coal hopper- that isn't slowing you down. You can test this any time you are connected to a...
The Engine Run switch is the engine on/off control switch, only. If the Stop button were modeled correctly, it would only shut down the lead...
You can get away with it in game, because Simugraph doesn't fully model coupler physics- it models slack, but not failure.
Couple of interesting things to note: 1) 100 cars, 13,000 tons down a grade over 5%. Take that, Arosa! 2) They have specialist road foremen to...
It's not the MU setup, nor lack of power. It's traction in the snow: throttle above Notch 3 just induces wheelslip.
Just checked. The tutorial is indeed broken. Weirdly, however, coal loading works just fine in timetable services.
True- but my point was that the C40 already exists in TSW. (PS: UP has retired all of its full SD90MACs. It still has some of the "SD9043s",...
Forza Horizon 4 is used as an advertising medium by the car companies, because they know they are dealing with the biggest software company in the...
I think you are correct in that the Dispatcher AI currently is not powerful or adaptive enough, and Matt has talked about it. That apparently is...
Acc. to standard procedure, Engine Run and Fuel Pump control should be off, yes: but they only come into play if you want to do a remote engine...
Oh, no. You have plenty of horsepower: three SD40s have 9000 ponies between them,* and this service runs perfectly OK in dry weather. The problem...
In the F7, do not move the selector handle from 1 until the ammeter is reading 0, otherwise the dynamics will never engage, or at least take...
But aren't you running custom F7A and B liveries?
That could work, provided the train isn't already going too fast (a handbrake is really pretty weak, only enough to hold a stationary train in...
1) Instrument lights turning off when restoring is a known, but trivial, bug. The same happens with the cab light if you had it on. 2) The AI...
Apparently a change to the core connected to coal loading in Clinchfield broke it in SPG. Used to work fine.
Or rather, is this why the in-game AC4400's dynamic brakes are notoriously wonky? Maybe the trailing loco's switch should be off but isn't and...
Thinking about this- are we talking about the radio in the lead loco? And is there a helper pair at the back? I am wondering if the PTT button...
That's peculiar: I had no issues with it.
Interesting idea- that bears considering. Thanks!
An NW2 would be equally cool, and CRR had more of those. [IMG]
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