Hi All,
Some years ago I purchased three steam locomotive packs from team-ALCO http://teamalco.com.au/TA04.html comprising 36 class, 38 class & Garratt. I now only run Open Rails and have had an ongoing issue with excessive steam visible for the class 36 and class 38 loco's. It appears to originate in front of the drive wheels. To clarify not all of the units comprising the downloads always had the problem and I accepted as the locomotives were circa 2006 perhaps not compatible with OR. I am not too flash with steam eng. files, more complicated in their construction, however over time tried all sorts of modifications to smoke, cylinders, engine variables etc with no luck. The fact that by chance the problem did not occur on some routes led me to believe maybe some discrepancy in route construct impacted.
Anyway I now believe I have discovered the cause of the problem, but it makes no sense to me at least. Locomotives with crew experience the excess steam - remove the crew via TSRE Consist Editor and problem solved!
To better illustrate the issue I have uploaded two short videos to YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hsu9i60k5c - Tehachapi - no crew / no steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XzQw_JnAY - MidEast Coast - crew / steam
Now, there is one further 'complication', isn't there always, the Beyer Garratts have crew in each video however have never had the issue.
So after drama for so many years I would appreciate if some of the steam buffs could perhaps shed some light on why the difficulty and how the solution could be as I think I have discovered?
In any event it now allows me to utilise the locomotives in my next video or thereabouts once a suitable activity is created for the MidEast Coast steam era route.
Any and all responses would be most welcome.
Duncan
Some years ago I purchased three steam locomotive packs from team-ALCO http://teamalco.com.au/TA04.html comprising 36 class, 38 class & Garratt. I now only run Open Rails and have had an ongoing issue with excessive steam visible for the class 36 and class 38 loco's. It appears to originate in front of the drive wheels. To clarify not all of the units comprising the downloads always had the problem and I accepted as the locomotives were circa 2006 perhaps not compatible with OR. I am not too flash with steam eng. files, more complicated in their construction, however over time tried all sorts of modifications to smoke, cylinders, engine variables etc with no luck. The fact that by chance the problem did not occur on some routes led me to believe maybe some discrepancy in route construct impacted.
Anyway I now believe I have discovered the cause of the problem, but it makes no sense to me at least. Locomotives with crew experience the excess steam - remove the crew via TSRE Consist Editor and problem solved!
To better illustrate the issue I have uploaded two short videos to YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hsu9i60k5c - Tehachapi - no crew / no steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XzQw_JnAY - MidEast Coast - crew / steam
Now, there is one further 'complication', isn't there always, the Beyer Garratts have crew in each video however have never had the issue.
So after drama for so many years I would appreciate if some of the steam buffs could perhaps shed some light on why the difficulty and how the solution could be as I think I have discovered?
In any event it now allows me to utilise the locomotives in my next video or thereabouts once a suitable activity is created for the MidEast Coast steam era route.
Any and all responses would be most welcome.
Duncan
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