Diesels West locomotives sis

[hoghead]

How do I moderate the enormous clouds of smoke emitted by my Diesels West locomotives? I own many Diesels West locomotives and they all have huge clouds of smoke - they are the main culprits though a few other engines emit more smoke than they should.
Also, the Diesels West lead units show two train brakes levers - not just one. The second train brake lever is is pictured beneath the air brake dials. If you have Diesels West engines you know what I mean. How do I fix this? I'm especially anxious to solve the engine smoke problem since I can't use any of the Diesels West locos on trains since they create smoke screens!

[speedracer702]

You need to go into the .eng file and edit the values. Looks like this.....

DieselSmokeEffectInitialMagnitude( 0.5 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxMagnitude( 10.5 )
DieselSmokeEffectInitialSmokeRate( 1.2 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxSmokeRate( 14.0 )

and lower them like this.....

DieselSmokeEffectInitialMagnitude( 0.6 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxMagnitude( 1.8 )
DieselSmokeEffectInitialSmokeRate( 0.4 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxSmokeRate( 2.1 )

I use usually a comparable locomotive as a guide. This is from DW CP9043 unedited. I'd use a sd70m, Ace or another EMD that has the same engine. Hope this helps.

Sean

[frankoburns]

Don't know what loco you are referring to..(It would have helped more if you told us!) But most GP series locos have 3 brake levers..Train brakes, Locomotive brake, and a Dynamic brake (if so equipped) Can't answer your question accurately since you provided no useful information. Next time a pic or model number would be nice! Below, typical DW GP35 in Open rails w/o dynamics...2 brake levers to the left. Train and loco brakes. The plate under the brake pressure guages is where the Dynamic brake typically is located, if so equipped.

[apco25]

FYI, diesels don't smoke they emit exhaust....smoke is the product of burning wood.

[ftldave]

I've stopped using OR because of the smoke problem, since I don't want to make an alternate set of engine config files.

Will it be addressed in future OR versions or is this considered a "feature" instead of an incompatibility bug? I understand the cause, but has the OR team decided that's the way it should be?

[apco25]

Why stop using it when you can simply edit the Diesels West .eng files? It's simpler fix than expecting the OR team to code around this issue.

[ckawahara]

If I recall, doesn't the utility DPU (Diesel Power Updater) solve this (amongst other features)?

[seagoon]

FYI, diesels don't smoke they emit exhaust....smoke is the product of burning wood.

Included in Webster's definition of the noun "smoke".
a : the gaseous products of burning materials especially of organic origin made visible by the presence of small particles of carbon
b : a suspension of particles in a gas.

[AMRoad]

+1 Seagoon

[kknobl]

If I recall, doesn't the utility DPU (Diesel Power Updater) solve this (amongst other features)?

Yes it does, and is quite simple to use. I would highly recommend using this utility rather than waiting for any code changes in OR that may or may not happen, or manually editing your .eng files manually.