37 Dumps Air When Uncoupled From Train

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  1. keith_gilham

    keith_gilham Active Member

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    Evening all

    Bit of an odd one I’m currently on the first mission with the 37 on Cornwall local where you ballast the track then have to fuel and wash the loco..

    however when I get to the drop off point to leave the seacows behind the loco looses all its air pressure in the vc slowly but steadily and as such applies the brakes.

    I’ve tried de coupling with all the brakes applied, just the loco brake, and just the driver brake the gauges all show everything is fine but once I uncouple as above it leaks the air out.. if I reconnect it instantly builds pressure back…

    Not seen this before There are air valves on the end of the loco but both are shut and with experiments if I open them both end it ditches all her air as I suspected.

    any help appreciated I could just max throttle it to the end but it’s not quite cricket lol

    tia Keith
     
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  2. Fitz

    Fitz Well-Known Member

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    The 37 on the Cornwall route has bugged brakes settings. The brakes keep defaulting back to vac mode every time you uncouple the loco and you need to switch them back to air. This can only be done in cab 1 I think.
     
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  3. ARuscoe

    ARuscoe Well-Known Member

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    As Fitz says, when you couple or uncouple the 37 go into cab No 2 and make sure it hasn't switched brake mode. It's a known issue but I've not seen or heard of a fix

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  4. keith_gilham

    keith_gilham Active Member

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    Thanks chaps… it was on air I had to change it to vacuum all sorted
     
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