[cesarbl]

Note that there's a TCS script hook called IsSpeedControlEnabled(). Probably the use case for this option is to have some of the TCS systems connected (e.g alerter or AWS) while speed-enforcing systems (ETCS, LZB, ...) are disabled.

I found an usage example in this TCS script: https://github.com/S..._France.cs#L509

[Csantucci]

Yes, that option may have an effect also on the TCSs if the latter is coded accordingly. However I didn't mention this case, because it is TCS specific, and therefore it should be specified in the specific TCS documentation, if applicable, rather than in the general OR manual.

[jonas]

Hi,

some little things about the F8 Window in the manual, it reads:

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There are 4 ways to change the direction:
• Click on the turnout icon in the Switch Monitor;
• Press the G key (or, for the turnout behind the train, the <Shift+G> key);
• Hold down the Alt key and use the left mouse button to click on the switch in the MainWindow;
• Use the dispatcher window.

Please note that with the last two methods you can throw any switch, not only the one in front but also
the one behind the train.
[Is this sentence still necessary? All four methods can also set switches behind the train.]

However, note also that not all switches can be thrown: in some cases the built-in AI dispatcher holds
the switch in a state to allow trains (especially AI trains) to follow their predefined path.

The arrow and eye symbols have the same meaning as in the track monitor. The switch is red when it is
reserved or occupied by the train, and green when it is free.

A switch shown in green can be operated, a switch shown in red is locked.
[About the first sentence part: A switch can be operable even it is shown red (see here).]
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Greetings
Jonas

[Kapitaen13]

Triggers 66 & 67 are also missing from the listing....

https://up.picr.de/41557395jl.jpg

[cjakeman]

Weter, on 03 July 2021 - 11:53 PM, said:

The paragraph 13.2.1 now looks in some kind unperfect.
The very sorrow is lack of discrete triggers 23-26 in table. Are 23&24-th working?

Kapitaen13, on 04 July 2021 - 12:26 PM, said:

Triggers 66 & 67 are also missing from the listing....

Thanks to you both for pointing out these omissions.

These triggers all require the MSTSBin compatible sound to be enabled:



I am adding them to the manual here:





and here:




Hope that's correct.

[Weter]

The mismatch with speed and force default UoM is discovered.
http://www.elvastowe...post__p__273965
Sorry, I have no manual now for pointing to concrete pages and paragraphs.
http://www.elvastowe...post__p__273997
Thanking Steamer_ctn some deiailes of the case were brought.
I can add, that one of appendices for manual contains a table of units, accepted by ORTS, so it has sence to check, which of them are really "default" UoM, that will be considered, when statement is being entered without units (in dimensionless form)

[cjakeman]

I can't find anything in the Manual about the water level in steam locomotives.

What we have is just:




The HUD shows:



What does "(absolute)" indicate?

I'm thinking that the Manual should describe both:

• boiler water level
• boiler water glass

The code recognises 4 significant levels of Boiler Water Level, so perhaps these should be mentioned in the Manual:

1: 75% - 90% - safe operating range


2: < 70% is catastrophic because the firebox crown is uncovered and the boiler could explode. OR pops up a message:

"Water level dropped too far. Plug has fused and loco has failed."

OR also drops the boiler pressure and the fire. Basically the loco is coasting thereafter and nothing can be done to recover. In real life, the footplate is filled with steam escaping through the melted plugs in the firebox crown. Of course, if you have checked the option "Suppress control confirmations", then your loco may expire with no message at all. Nor do I believe there is a mention in the Evaluation Debrief.


3: >= 91% allows water into the steam pipe which can damage the cylinders. OR pops up a message:

"Boiler overfull and priming."

4: < 90%. OR pops up a message:

"Boiler no longer priming."

The loco loses power when priming, but I don't think there are other consequences.


Are these interpretations correct? What would be a suitable text for the Manual?

[cjakeman]

Weter, on 05 September 2021 - 01:03 PM, said:

When our steamer rides uphill, the glass shows water level higher, than actual; if downhill-we are at risk to uncover firebox crown, even having more, than 70% of absolute water quantity at boiler. That's my guess. So, before long steep downhill, it has sense to fill the boiler, furthermore, steam usage will be lowered, as not demanded to produce much tractive force in such conditions.

Yes indeed.

In real life, the track gradient changes the level in the water glass and the firebox is at risk.

I believe that modelling the effect of gradient has been proposed but noone has implemented it yet.

[Weter]

Please, don't forget about tender water gauge as well.

But I have tend to tie "absolute" statement with that...
Else, injecting the water from tank will cool firebox walls.

[steamer_ctn]

cjakeman, on 05 September 2021 - 10:13 AM, said:

What does "(absolute)" indicate?

I'm thinking that the Manual should describe both:

• boiler water level
• boiler water glass

Absolute is the total amount of water that is contained in the boiler. So for example, for a NSWGR D57 locomotive it might have been about 3500 imp gals.

The water glass gauge fitted to the D57 was 8" and showed the water level between 2950 and 3500 imp gals.

Hence the fireman was supposed to maintain water in the boiler between these two points. Thus in this case, the water level should have been managed between approx 84 and 100% absolute (or 0 and 100% gauge).

However for some reason the current OR code seems to operate the gauge between 70 - 100% absolute.