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markus_GE, on 03 October 2014 - 01:17 PM, said:

The usual detector in America checks for hotboxes in a train and reports them to the engineer by radio, if it detects any. Some can also recognize dragging equipment, and produce the corresponding warning.

IDK to which extent these are in use in Europe, though, but in the US, they´re quite common, AFAICT.

Cheers, Markus

This hotbox means overheating axle bearing? Then i still don't get the point of these in game, as this is not simulated.

[markus_GE]

Hotbox = hot bearing, exactly.

The point of them in-game is, that even if everything is OK, you will get a confirmation message, á la: "BNSF detector, Milepost 53.0, no defects, repeat, no defects. Total axles 345. Temperature 86 degrees. Detector out."

:oldstry:

Cheers, Markus