C40-8w Eotd

Just what it says: the GP38-2 has a functioning EOTD display - and very useful it is - and the AC4400 has a not-quite-so-useful one in the IFD screen: but the box in the C40-8W is inert, displaying nothing. Back-end BP pressure and acceleration would be really, really useful with long, heavy trains.

 

Did you remember to turn on the radio fuse? I’m pretty sure the HOTD works after that in the SD40-2.

 

Urk! You're right.

But that in the C40-8W is dead as a doornail, with all fuses on. Will edit the thread.

 

You're right about the Dash 8 - very annoying. Hope it'll be fixed at some point.

 

As an aside: in Clinchfield, there is of course no EOTD, but you can still get back-end brake pipe pressure by flying the 3 camera into the caboose and leaving it focused on the brakeman's gauge on the inner cupola wall. (This represents an abstracted reality, since there would be a live brakeman back there radioing readings to the engineer)

 

This would be greatly appreciated!