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Was running an activity on Donner Pass last night - the activity had me drop my train on the main and do a car pickup from a siding... Lots of switching to "Manual Mode" and [Tabs] to clear a red signal without tripping the emergency brakes (should steam engines do this ?) had to do a run around to get the cars behind the locomotive clearing more signals... Finally had my train back in one piece - used the [/] to hook up the air - applied max air - waited for it to release - yet the actual cars would never leave then "Emergency" in the HUD and I couldn't move the train again".. I tried disconnection and reconnecting - no joy... I tried the [Shift] [/] while connected to reset the brakes - still no joy... Had to end the activity because it wouldn't move... Am I doing something wrong or have some gross conceptual error on how to work this ?
Regards,
Scott
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Posted 16 March 2014 - 08:42 AM
scottb613, on 16 March 2014 - 06:41 AM, said:
Hi Folks,
Was running an activity on Donner Pass last night - the activity had me drop my train on the main and do a car pickup from a siding... Lots of switching to "Manual Mode" and [Tabs] to clear a red signal without tripping the emergency brakes (should steam engines do this ?) had to do a run around to get the cars behind the locomotive clearing more signals... Finally had my train back in one piece - used the [/] to hook up the air - applied max air - waited for it to release - yet the actual cars would never leave then "Emergency" in the HUD and I couldn't move the train again".. I tried disconnection and reconnecting - no joy... I tried the [Shift] [/] while connected to reset the brakes - still no joy... Had to end the activity because it wouldn't move... Am I doing something wrong or have some gross conceptual error on how to work this ?
Regards,
Scott
Was running an activity on Donner Pass last night - the activity had me drop my train on the main and do a car pickup from a siding... Lots of switching to "Manual Mode" and [Tabs] to clear a red signal without tripping the emergency brakes (should steam engines do this ?) had to do a run around to get the cars behind the locomotive clearing more signals... Finally had my train back in one piece - used the [/] to hook up the air - applied max air - waited for it to release - yet the actual cars would never leave then "Emergency" in the HUD and I couldn't move the train again".. I tried disconnection and reconnecting - no joy... I tried the [Shift] [/] while connected to reset the brakes - still no joy... Had to end the activity because it wouldn't move... Am I doing something wrong or have some gross conceptual error on how to work this ?
Regards,
Scott
Hi
I was just above to ask the forum a similar problem, though for a diesel engine on a goods train. The loco could not move the train a single meter starting from the platform. Noticed there was not any EOT BP reading. I connected the brake hose with ' and it apparently started to fill, but ended up with a negative air pressure, like EOT BP -102. And of course it would not move this time either. Negative pressure, how come? What did I do wrong? I disconnected the loco and it was running just fine, solo.
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Posted 16 March 2014 - 10:15 AM
Hi Sven,
Yeah - sounds similar - I could be doing something wrong though as I'm no expert...
Regards,
Scott
Yeah - sounds similar - I could be doing something wrong though as I'm no expert...
Regards,
Scott
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