Shasta Route P40DC Strobe Lights not flashing!

[Amtrakman2105]

Hello, I just purchased the Shasta Route and I am enjoying it so far! I tried out the Amtrak P40DC/Coast Starlight Consist and I saw that the Flashing Strobe Lights are not flashing when the headlights are on bright like the P40DCs did when they were in their original Phase III Scheme! The P40DCs used on the 1990's Southwest Chief Consist, The Strobe Lights does flash! I am wondering if the strobe light on the Coast Starlight P40DCs were intentionally not meant to flash! I was wondering if anybody noticed it on Shasta or it might be just me!

[defect_detector]

No, the engine file in the sim just doesn't have the coding for the strobe lighting. They should be pulsing like the prototype (and the ditch lights should not as they were not set up that way initially when the units were equipped with strobes). For whatever reason the coding on the lighting was omitted.

[R. Steele]

There are several Streamlines Amtrak locomotives that have working strobe lights...for instance in the SLI Amtrak Engines, the F40PH have strobe lights. You could copy the code from their light sections to the P40 light sections --- making sure to adjust the position lines to match the P40 and then see how they look in the sim. You may have to make other adjustments as required. Shouldn't be too hard, good learning experience if you've never done it.

[Orbita]

I believe this file has P40DC's with working strobe lights:

totc_genesis.zip

Should be a simple copy and paste type of edit.

[SD40-2]

There are several Streamlines Amtrak locomotives that have working strobe lights...for instance in the SLI Amtrak Engines, the F40PH have strobe lights. You could copy the code from their light sections to the P40 light sections --- making sure to adjust the position lines to match the P40 and then see how they look in the sim. You may have to make other adjustments as required. Shouldn't be too hard, good learning experience if you've never done it.

The current set that has the F40PH also has a P40 with working strobes as previously mentioned, so it's a simple copy-paste from that unit to the Shasta one.

[R. Steele]

The current set that has the F40PH also has a P40 with working strobes as previously mentioned, so it's a simple copy-paste from that unit to the Shasta one.

Much better, glad you caught that.