Stuck Locomotives

[kennyeaton]

Hello All,

I have recently noticed that all of the older Uboats will not move in Open Rails. U 23's, U 28's, U 33's. They work fine in MSTS but will not move more than .05 mph in Open Rails. Is it possible to correct these loco's.

Thanks
Kenny

[baldwin]

They have the wrong Units in the maxpower lines of the eng file. They have kN but should be kW. N=newtons which is a unit of force, W=watts which is a unit of power.

[crstagg]

The problem is that MSTS was programmed to only parse the first non-numeric character in the MaxPower line. If the character was "k" then the numeric was for kW, if it was "H" then numeric was HP.

[kennyeaton]

Thanks guys.

Changing that one line with a "w" solved the problem. I've got a bunch of them to change.

Thanks again
Kenny