player starting speed & brakes

[R. Steele]

Reading another post brought back to memory a problem I thought had been solved, or at least a work around had been posted. I cannot find the original source or thread. Looked at Steam4Me, OR Manual, and Rich Garber's Activity Manual.

Here's the situation: Player Consist is two engines, starting speed in service file is set to 3. Player train starts at speed with train brakes off and engine brakes at 100%.

Why are the engine brakes set at all? I cannot seem to find any other file that would control the state of the player train brakes at the start of an activity. An OR Bug? (This is where I seem to remember a fix...but cannot recall it)

Just out of curiosity, what do these control...[found no answers or conflicting answers in sources I checked]
1. MaxWheelAcceleration ( 0 )
2. StartInWorld ( 0 )
3. EndInWorld ( 0 )

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Service_Definition (
	Serial ( 9 )
	Name ( "LS&I Dock Job" )
	Train_Config ( LS&I_U30+C30 )
	PathID ( "Dock Job" )
	MaxWheelAcceleration ( 0 )
	Efficiency ( 0.9 )
	TimeTable (
		StartingSpeed ( 3 )
		EndingSpeed ( 0 )
		StartInWorld ( 0 )
		EndInWorld ( 0 )
	)
)

Also People, pardon me...I realize these questions have probably been posted a gazillion times before....searched for answers, really, but the search engine TS uses is frankly - a little antiquated... Sorry Nels, LuvYA!

Come to think of it, I''m a little antiquated, so maybe that's the real problem here.

[slipperman]

Hi Gerry,
I don't currently have access to the Realmuto/Richter eng/wag file document, but I'm sure the initial state of the engine brakes is specified in this part of the eng file :

EngineControllers (
Throttle ( 0 1 0.025 0
NumNotches ( 1
Notch ( 0 1 Dummy )
)
)
Brake_Engine ( 0 1 0.0125 0
NumNotches ( 1
Notch ( 0 1 Dummy )
)
)

I think it's the 4th parameter with anything above 0 applying proportionally more brake up to 1 indicating full application (but I could be wrong!).

Cheers,
Ged

[R. Steele]

Got it in one, as usual. Thank You. The engine file, found this section in the Realmuto/Richter eng/wag doc

Brake_Engine ( 0 1 0.05 0
		NumNotches( 2
              	Notch(0    	0 EngineBrakesControllerReleaseStart # absolutely necessary, without brakes don’t release)
			Notch(0.1	1 EngineBrakesControllerApplyStart )

In all the engine files used the line reads: Brake_Engine ( 0 1 0.0250 1 [player consist starts at speed - engine brake 100%]
Changed to: Brake_Engine ( 0 1 0.0250 0 [player consist starts at speed with no loco brake.]

I think I'll make 0 the default number in all the engine files.