Sticky wagons in ORTS

[Shawmut]

Recently I've noticed that when I'm running an activity in ORTS, and if that activity either has
a.) the loco start uncoupled to its consist, or
b.) the loco has to set out and pick up wagons along the way
that the consist ends up being glued tight to the tracks.

What I mean by that is that if I'm starting a scenario with the loco coupled to its consist, all well and good and I'm off with no problem. But have the loco(s) start uncoupled, or uncouple and pick up wagons along the way, and the game is over: the wagons won't budge, as if their brakes were all on (but trust me, they are not). It doesn't seem to matter what rolling stock or what route I'm using, the "sticky wagon syndrome" seems to cast its pall on all of them.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so have you found a solution?

Cheers,

Dave

[longiron]

What I mean by that is that if I'm starting a scenario with the loco coupled to its consist, all well and good and I'm off with no problem. But have the loco(s) start uncoupled, or uncouple and pick up wagons along the way, and the game is over: the wagons won't budge, as if their brakes were all on (but trust me, they are not). It doesn't seem to matter what rolling stock or what route I'm using, the "sticky wagon syndrome" seems to cast its pall on all of them.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so have you found a solution?

Cheers,

Dave

Dave,
When you couple to a loose consist, all brakes are in emergency and the handbrakes are set to 100%. You must connect the brake air line, release the handbrakes and recharge the brake line before you can move them.

[Stuz]

Hi Dave,
I have been running activities on the Feather River and I have noticed this only once and all I could do was restart from a save and then the activity continued OK. One thing I have noticed is that sometimes when coupling to a consist and after connecting the brake hoses and releasing the handbrakes some of the wagons in the consist go to full emergency braking and the main reservoir dumps and it then takes ages to pump up the brakes and go to full release while other wagons go to full release quickly. This does not happen all the time, thankfully.
I have also noticed that AI traffic does run, although not always to time and somewhat randomly, although I understand that it has not yet been fully implemented. Makes life interesting. Regards Stu


Edit: Just an added comment. In one instance I connected the consist, only four wagons in this instance, and after connecting the hoses and releasing the hand brakes I then disconnected the hoses and ran on the loco brake only and managed my moves OK without having to wait for the pumpup. Have to watch the speed though.
Certainly adds some spice to MSTS

[longiron]

Most of the time you can use the SHIFT + ? shortcut to fully charge the brake lines. It's not perfect, but works 90%+. BTW, the F5 HUD will show the status of the train car's braking - release, lap, emergency.

[Stuz]

Thanks for the tip. I usually have the F5 HUD to include brake status up when driving

Regards Stu

[Shawmut]

Thanks fellas; I'm off to charge those brake lines!

Cheers,

Dave