BVE: British Class 66

[call2]

RE: British Class 66

OK Richard, I've got it now. (Damn cache!!) Thanks.

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[call2]

RE: British Class 66

Thanks for this freight version Martin. I've just had a run with it and it has all the features that I talked to you about. The Maybank freight run can now be released, (together with the revised versions of all the other routes).

Tony H
Midlands 25Kv

[jbpi]

RE: British Class 66

Hello,

I would like to use your Class66 loco on the MayBank route – activity “Yard freightliner". I’m running BE 4.2 and the latest version available of Class66

My current startup procedure is:
- Pressing ‘key 6’ to start the engine: ok (green light – engine started)
- Pressing ‘up arrow’ to put the “reverser” in the forward position: ok
- Pressing ‘space bar’ two times to acknowledge the “driver vigilance device”: ok
- Pressing ‘>’ to release brakes: pressure gauge indicates that brakes are released
- Pressing ‘z’ to increase power

and ... the train doesn’t start :-(

Your loco seem to be very great and I would appreciate to know what’s wrong in my procedure.

Thanks a lot for your help !

jb

[ChrisCooper]

RE: British Class 66

From that screenshot, you're ammeter is registering a current, so you have power going to the motors. You must be having the same problem that I am, wheel slip which is so bad that the train will not move, even on notch 1. You may notice that the loco is jerking backwards and forwards a small amount, and slight changes in the engine sound. The only way to get it to move is to go into development mode (right click, options, user, developer) and press SHIFT and F7. Once it's moving you should be able to accelerate a bit, and get some speed, but won't get far as once you hit a decent uphill gradient you'll come to a stop and start sliding back. You'll also find stopping is less than easy aswell.
I'm not sure what is causing this, since the adheasion is set at 140, which is usually considered high. It's oviously something in the train.dat (the adheasion coefficient, or something to go with motor and trailer car numbers and weights) but I'm to tired to be bothered to go through and check it at the moment. Perhaps someone else might have a look at it.
Sorry I can't be more help at the moment, but at least you can no that it isn't something you're doing wrong (or I'm doing it wrong aswell).

[call2]

RE: British Class 66

If you have the latest version of Maybank (v3.9.05) open the 05.12 route file using Notepad and check that the "With Train" section (about line 12) has an entry : .Folder class66freight. It's possible that it might be : .Folder class66freightdouble, which is incorrect. You should also have all three editions of the class 66 from Martin Finkens website.

Tony H
Midlands 25kV

[hongjian]

RE: British Class 66

As mentioned before in another posting [Link Expired] , Martin's class 66 have the following arrangements:

Passenger edition of class 66 contains all files
Freight and double freight versions of class 66 contains only partial files like its performance (train.dat), hence there is a need to copy the files that is not included over from the passenger edition of the class 66.

[leezer3]

RE: British Class 66

There is NO NEED to copy files!
You need to have all versions of the train installed, and it will work fine! (It has been setup to alias to the required files)

Chris Lees