No locomotive power

[Norfolk&Southern 1894]

I tried nearly every route both addon and vanilla and all sorts of locomotives from passenger to freight vanilla and add on. There is no power... The motors rev and the smoke billows but no power is put to the wheels. Just downloaded v9 tonight after using v6 for the last year. Thought it would be worth the move since there were so many improvements. v6 has worked flawlessly.

Something in the physics is busted or something and I haven't seen similar questions being asked so I'm a bit confused. Any help is appreciated.

[weichenpfleger]

Also German steam engines are not (since X1770) any more able to drive faster than 50 Kph.
Why?

Cheers

Weichenpfleger
(Germany)

[jjtang]

Have you tried MSTS default locos and consists?
Some loco may have gear box, try E or shift-E to change gear.
Otherwise, try to hit shift-/ key to release brake.

[weichenpfleger]

Thanks for answer.
I tested the 280 (Goelsdorf), as well as "GR" and "ProTrain" steam engines. With X.1764 I do not have problems, starting from release X.1770 break in the steam generating capacity with approx. 50 Kmh.

Cheers

Weichenpfleger
(Germany)

[gladhandf]

I tried nearly every route both addon and vanilla and all sorts of locomotives from passenger to freight vanilla and add on. There is no power... The motors rev and the smoke billows but no power is put to the wheels. Just downloaded v9 tonight after using v6 for the last year. Thought it would be worth the move since there were so many improvements. v6 has worked flawlessly.

Something in the physics is busted or something and I haven't seen similar questions being asked so I'm a bit confused. Any help is appreciated.

Have you set Forward or Reverse?

[Thirdrail70]

I have had the same problem. The wide screen picture looks great and all the required extras from Microsoft are downloaded and installed. The brakes are off. The AI trains run but the train you are supposed to control does not move although as you mentioned, the smoke billows and all else seems to work. Does anyone have an answer for this problem?

[rdamurphy]

The latest Experimental Release is 1819.

Download here and try it out:

http://www.openrails.org/experimental.html

Robert

[rlkimbal]

You have to select your locomotive at the start. The default is the Acela electric locomotive on the tutorial route and the are no wires on your route.