Prompted by the offer of 30% off I decided to splash out on Mullan Pass. NOT my era at all.... but it WAS a Northern Pacific route so even if the anticipated miles long AC lash ups didn't appeal I was interested in (1) the route itself, and (2) the fact that it is an Open Rails Only route.
Purchase download and install went seamlessly so decided to run an activity to check out the route. All the consists were as I feared massive trains so rather than run light engine I bit the bullet and set about creating a consist in TSRE.
The latter was a learning curve and the lack of a tutorial was not great. Anyway finally lashed up the two GP9 switchers and created a consist of 10 of the MT boxcars in the stock pack, rounded off with the single caboose. Long story short. Got to a section, straight as a die with a 0.9% incline and watched in disbelief as the train gradually ground to a halt.
Decided to have another try and set a start point in a yard somewhere in the middle of the route. When the start loaded I noticed I was on a 0.4% incline. When I tried to start the whole consist, even with sander going, refused to budge (and yes of course the brakes were showing as released) and the whole shabang began to roll backwards down this gentle incline whatever I did with the power.
NOW I'm quite prepared to accept I may have done something wrong ....but surely 3000HP of GP9 can haul 10 empty boxcars on a less than 1% incline and start them 0.4%???
BTW using latest version (prompted to update when I ran OR) and happy to check any setting that may have caused this ….bearing in mind that I haven’t changed these since running other MSTS routes with few problems.
Purchase download and install went seamlessly so decided to run an activity to check out the route. All the consists were as I feared massive trains so rather than run light engine I bit the bullet and set about creating a consist in TSRE.
The latter was a learning curve and the lack of a tutorial was not great. Anyway finally lashed up the two GP9 switchers and created a consist of 10 of the MT boxcars in the stock pack, rounded off with the single caboose. Long story short. Got to a section, straight as a die with a 0.9% incline and watched in disbelief as the train gradually ground to a halt.
Decided to have another try and set a start point in a yard somewhere in the middle of the route. When the start loaded I noticed I was on a 0.4% incline. When I tried to start the whole consist, even with sander going, refused to budge (and yes of course the brakes were showing as released) and the whole shabang began to roll backwards down this gentle incline whatever I did with the power.
NOW I'm quite prepared to accept I may have done something wrong ....but surely 3000HP of GP9 can haul 10 empty boxcars on a less than 1% incline and start them 0.4%???
BTW using latest version (prompted to update when I ran OR) and happy to check any setting that may have caused this ….bearing in mind that I haven’t changed these since running other MSTS routes with few problems.
and yet it seems to have some quite advanced features. A check online for a YouTube "how to..." video was not great as the results were... Well Google it yourself.
and post your findings.
I did, like all former technicians get round to it... that is RTFM LOL! and couldn't really see anything that different to my settings in OR options. The rest of it on operating procedures looks fascinating but I've got to get the test issues failing consist sorted first. I note too that others reporting no problems are using the latest unstable version, which hasn't given me problems so far (although some reported ones have been fixed whilst I've been doing other stuff) so I'll add reverting to the stable version to my list of tests just in case.
....and obviously now having the PDF installed it's a lot easier to navigate! I was trying to read it on github which was obviously not as good.
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