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While, I'm not giving up with completing the task, I'll post every link and every advice/lifehack, during this work, for everyone could use it, or advance it further, because there are no guarantees in timelines and even in completion, due to variety reasons of our lifes.

Other benefit, these notes could form a kind of tutorial, being sewed together.

Ideally, I'd like to make series of "template" files of different stages of readiness, for Your and other ones use, so You can pick most fitting variant and just complete it with specific for given project values, rather start every time from blank sheet or with rebuilding unfitting file, or similar ready file, where it's hard to see, which parameters are "old" and ave to be changed, but which are needed to keep, etc. so, in couple of words - to save the time.
Isn't it like the 3D models, which can partly be used as a base of new projects, more or less similar?

It's wanted o hope, that CTN's instructions hold enough information to make complete *.eng/*.wag-file, and there will be no need to add from Eng-Manual some parameters, which then would appear to be obsolete or out of functioning in ORTS

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Lyrics aside, as far, as we are trying to deal with steam locomotive's performance definition, we also would need to learn specific ORTS parameter set, for steam engines.
These are basic parameters explanation (later, we might need to see advanced parameters too) and online calculators for getting some correct values, according to known locomotive characteristics.
http://www.coalstone...sics/steam-set/
And the whole set of parameters can be seen here:
http://www.coalstone...-parameter-std/