Longest Train(s) In Tsw2

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  1. Phan#3192

    Phan#3192 New Member

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    Well, I managed to put together something. This is the longest and heaviest train I've put together in TSW 2. Pretty much just 3 separate, loaded coal trains that I lashed up with 4 AC4400CW's in the front, and 2 in the rear as DPU's. I somehow managed to get it running at +115 km/h on the Oakville Subdivision. If you guys have some long trains that you've put together, share them! This one is 150 cars long, with fully loaded coal, and 6 loco's weighing in at a total of 20,623.9t, and measuring 2.6km long.

    (yes I know it's a CP train pulling CN coal hoppers on a CN line, whatever lol)

     
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  2. Michael Newbury

    Michael Newbury Well-Known Member

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    Very nice CP locos
     
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  3. breblimator

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    Haha, nice one :)
    In times of global warming, 150 coal wagons - shame on You /o\
     
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  4. JustusLM

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    So, I did some trials, and I won't bore you with the intermediate stuff leading up to this on Sherman Hill:

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    That's five separate tanker trains, each with 70 tanker cars, a hopper car on each end, 3 AC4400CW's in the front, and one in the back, coupled together for a total of 350 tanker cars, 10 hopper cars, and 20 AC4400CW's. Each of the five units is 1371m long according to the scenario editor, but clearly, they're a bit longer.

    It took me 1 hour and 50 minutes just to assemble the train, with a lot of that time spent waiting for the brake pipe to charge. It then took me another 3 minutes to carefully pull away all the slack and get it going.

    Simulating 380 vehicles also reduced my frame rate to 10-11 fps, and going uphill with almost 42,800 tons was mostly done at 22-23 mph.

    Regretfully, I didn't finish the scenario on my first try, because while trying to get a recording of the passing train on the downhill, I noticed too late that I was approaching a switch too fast, and braking rather heavily derailed the train. I had been going for something around 3.5 hours at that point, so I'm not doing this again right now, but I will at some point.
    I did get a stationary recording of the train passing uphill, and it's 20 minutes long.
    Using the free camera to fly past the stationary train (holding shift, of course) took over 3 minutes.

    ts2prototyp Screenshot 2022.01.24 - 19.25.15.40.jpg

    Even a single one of those tanker trains is longer than the vehicle rendering distance:

    ts2prototyp Screenshot 2022.01.24 - 17.51.58.00.jpg

    Here, the end of the train is at the right end of the yard in Cheyenne, so you can put the length of the train in context with the length of the route itself:

    ts2prototyp Screenshot 2022.01.24 - 16.51.23.59.png

    So, that's my attempt at a long, heavy train. I'm looking forward to someone posting about an even longer formation.
     
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  5. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Try this on Sand Patch Grade since CSX does this too a Longest train with Mid Power DPU

     
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  6. GoldenTicket420

    GoldenTicket420 Well-Known Member

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    That is so awesome LOL I'm definitely going to attempt this. I tried a year ago it only got 104 on sand grade patch


    I also have coupled in class 66 to gp38


    This one is cool and I think you should try doing long consonant with American and UK Freight wagons this could be awesome and cool to see
     

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