Two Locomotives Not Responding Anymore!?

[meeshu]

I have two locomotives that will not move (as commanded) and no longer respond to throttle and braking commands!!??

These locomotives and their consists were working fine last night but now for some reason these two locomotives no longer respond!?

The locomotives in question are -

MRL SD70ACe from file mrlsd70a.zip in the File Library.
UP ES44CC from file up_es44ac_5438.zip in the File Library

These were downloaded and installed without issue a few days ago.

I aliased cabviews and sounds from other files that I have without issue also.

The only changes I made to the locomotives (last night and today) were editing a couple of locomotive engine sound waves. No changes made to the locomotives engine files.

On starting an activity with either of these two locomotives under Open Rails V1.5.1, and later tried Open Rails V1.5.1-1339, the cabview appears with brake cylinder pressures at 0. Increasing and decreasing brake lever positions has no effect!?

Increasing throttle lever also has no effect with a brief message appearing near the bottom of the cabview "Throttle: Open". Whatever that means!?

Other locomotives I have seem to function normally including the Dash9, SD40-2, SD80Mac, and a DDA40X.

Suspect modifying the engine wave sounds might have had some effect on these two suspect locomotives, although I would have thought there shouldn't be any issue as the modifications were minor and no changes made to the locomotive engines files!?

Screenshot of MRL SD70ACe locomotive showing 0 PSI on BC pressures on startup of activity.

Open Rails 2024-11-10 Loco Problem.png

Any ideas what is wrong here with these two locomotives?

[derekmorton]

I suspect that you now have a brace error.

Reinstall the loco's and see what happens.

[meeshu]

Thanks Derek!

Yes, a closing brace/bracket was missing from both of these locomotive engine files. I had a real close look at the respective engine files using Notepad++ and soon found the cause of the issues. I didn't want to re-install these locomotive files as it would then require fairly extensive editing again to get them to how I wanted them to be. Fortunately this was not necessary, as just adding the missing brace/bracket using Notepad++ solved the issues.

Not quite sure how these braces/brackets became missing to begin with. Speculate that while editing the engine sound files, I had the locomotive engine files open as well at the time to check that the aliasing was correct. But somewhere along the process of editing the sound waves, I must have accidentally deleted the engines files braces/brackets?

Anyway, the two suspect locomotives are now running as they should be.

[eric]

It's very easy to cause by mistake... glad you found it.