Rail car Textures Missing Only When Running an Activity!?

[R. Steele]

If the articulated car platform shape has no wheels, then that specific platform would have no braking force. If you revise to add braking force to a platform where no wheels exist, you are giving the entire 5 platform car too much brake force. You are converting it force-wise into a husky stack type car instead of an articulated type car.

Usually on a 5-pack, end platforms A and B and middle platform D has 2 complete sets of wheels, while platform E and C have no wheels and thus should have no brake force.

Geepster, your post earned me a DOH.jpg....

I looked at some "C" cars and here's what I found:

include ( "..\\APL_C_KLINE.wag" )
Wagon (
	include ( "..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Common.inc\\Fleet\\Couplers\\Std_COFC_Coupler.inc" )
	include ( "..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Common.inc\\Fleet\\Brakes\\Single_Pipe_AB_Brakes_COFC.inc" )
	ORTSAdhesion ( ORTSCurtius_Kniffler ( 7.5 44 0.161 0.7 ) )
	ORTSNumberAxles ( 4 )
	ORTSBearingType ( Roller )
	ORTSDavis_A ( 691.24 )
	ORTSDavis_B ( 12.5035 )
	ORTSDavis_C ( 3.895220 )
	Comment( == Assumptions -FreightCar DoubleStack - speed - 65mph (105km/h), Roller Bearing, 4 axles, frontal area - N/A, WagonWeight - 114.0 ton (metric) == )
)

Not only did I give them the normal set of brakes!...when I recalculate the Davis numbers with zero axles the value for Davis_A drops from 691.24 to 335.39. Something seemed screwy to me, could not put my finger on it until I read this post.
Now to recheck a whole bunch of work --- Thank you, sir...excellent point, indeed.