Filling a tender with water (Cab Forward on Donner Pass) failure.

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  • seagoon
    5000 Post Veteran

    • Jun 2001
    • 5161
    • Yamba, N.S.WALES, Australia

    #1

    Filling a tender with water (Cab Forward on Donner Pass) failure.

    In the subject example, no matter what I do, I cannot recharge the tender with water.

    The Activity requires the tender to be filled and, using the F5 display, I see that the tender has 880 gallons of water.
    Following instructions, I back up to the watering point, hit and hold 'T' (as one does in MSTS) and a pop-up says that the tender is {0} distance from the water column.

    Nothing, however, happens: the tender does not fill, irrespective of how finely I adjust it's location in relation to the column.

    Hoping that someone can cast some light on this, please.

    Bruce
    IBM XT i386; 512Kb RAM; 5.25" FDD; 1.4Mb FDD; 5Mb HDD; VGA 256-colour graphics card; AdLib soundcard; DR DOS 6.0; Windows 3.0
  • scottb613
    2500 Post Veteran


    • Apr 2003
    • 2848
    • Downeast Maine (soon)
    • ORTS

    #2
    Hi Bruce,

    Yeah - not sure all these filling issues have been worked out yet... I've had a problem after refilling a tender on Derek's articulated locomotives - filled up tender - and locomotive ran out of water a few minutes later even though tender showed 100%... One suggestion is they you have to stop and switch to the other half of the locomotive and fill that one too... Honestly - I haven't got back to troubleshooting that issue since...

    If you go far away from the actual coal or water source - it should recognize you are not near it and automatically fill anyway... For those routes without steam facilities setup...

    Regards,
    Scott
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    • seagoon
      5000 Post Veteran

      • Jun 2001
      • 5161
      • Yamba, N.S.WALES, Australia

      #3
      Scott,
      I might try starting the Activity in MSTS, saving it and then recommencing in OR.
      It would be interesting to see if the tender is full.
      (Joking, of course! )

      Then again, perhaps it would be easier to open it in the Activity Editor and just fill the tender.

      EDIT.
      Yep....that works perfectly.
      Last edited by seagoon; 03-29-2014, 16:29. Reason: Added update
      IBM XT i386; 512Kb RAM; 5.25" FDD; 1.4Mb FDD; 5Mb HDD; VGA 256-colour graphics card; AdLib soundcard; DR DOS 6.0; Windows 3.0

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