Breaking brake hoses
#1
Posted 17 March 2016 - 09:44 PM
Might it be possible for the announcement that a brake hose has busted (to indicate a problem w/ too much speed over a curve) be modified so it includes something about which car failed the test? .wag name would be ideal but short of that even having the sequential number of it in the consist will be of good use.
Thanks for considering this.
#2
Posted 17 March 2016 - 10:39 PM
#3
Posted 18 March 2016 - 12:53 AM
Genma Saotome, on 17 March 2016 - 09:44 PM, said:
It should be relatively easy to add the "Car ID" number to the message.
Can you raise a bug report for it?
#4
Posted 18 March 2016 - 09:18 AM
#5
Posted 18 March 2016 - 02:35 PM
#6
Posted 18 March 2016 - 07:54 PM
steamer_ctn, on 18 March 2016 - 02:35 PM, said:
Ahh, I did not know that. Thank you for the tip.
I am not at all sure why I'm still seeing broken hoses at 20-25mph speeds but I do know that very few of my cars have a CenterofGravity() value. IMO there's no good way to know what would be correct for anything so taking into consideration the center sill and trucks as being the majority weight of most empty US freight cars I'd guess the CoG() would be somewhere in the range of 0.75m - 1.25m. Probably towards the low end of that range, higher of course for loaded cars.
#7
Posted 18 March 2016 - 08:35 PM
#8
Posted 18 March 2016 - 09:47 PM
The maximum permissible speed through a curve will be dependent upon the route specifics (superelevation, etc) and wagon properties.
To work through this it might be worthwhile selecting one "problem wagon", and testing it against the test consist on this website. This might help identify relevant WAG file configuration items that can be adjusted.
I have also added the notification for the car number that you requested in the bug request (#3478).
Thanks
#9
Posted 19 March 2016 - 09:52 AM
#10
Posted 19 March 2016 - 10:59 AM
I tried to correct this by adding ORTSUnbalancedSuperelevation ( 6in ) to Default.wag the the \DEFAULT folder... there was no effect.
So what to do... change all .wags and .engs or rely on a reasonable default value used by the software? If the later is present, what is it? Where is it?
FWIW, a pal sent me this. Perhaps you'll find it interesting, as did I.