AI Brake and other invisible locos

[cascaderailroad]

AI Brake is an invisible loco, that adds power to an attached loco, and is a highly useful device.

Now the problem with Trainz is that the rotational trackside camera pans with a center point, at the bottom of the fuel tank, and looks down at the railhead ... very unprototypical, as most railfans watch the top of a train ... not the bottom of the wheel flange, and railhead.

My question is, can a loco have a attchment point way up high on the body (rather than way down low on the body) so that the rotating trackside camera would follow the top of the loco ?

An invisible loco like the AI Brake (attached on the head end loco) would easily provide this elevated camera tracking point.

Can someone with more knowlege than I, experiment with this idea, please ?

 

[whitepass]

I made the AI Brake and it should only be used in TRS4 as it is a work around for a bug in TRS4 that was fixed in TRS6. All it adds is a lot of braking.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I was just thinking about how the AI Brake asset works ?

I find a 1 mile long, 15,000 ton loaded coal train, that comes to a stop signal on a -1.75% gradient, applies the brakes ... yet the weight of the train continues to slide the train downhill at 0.5 mph, and makes for a SPAD, making the train uncontrollable, ruining the session.

I have 4 locos head end, and 2 more rear end, and I apply up to 20 AI Brakes to the rear ... but as AI Brake's are totally invisible, they oftentimes can not be found, in order to cut them off, at the end of the grade.

How would one add the enginespec to a set of helper locos, a railcar, or a caboose, to make it super powerful, as a visible AI Brake provides allot of braking power ?

What rule can you use to over ride a SPAD ?

 

[whitepass]

All I did was edit the DDC part of the engine file, what is in the old CCG4.

 

[cascaderailroad]

What I am going to do is edit a loco and alter it's enginespec config file, so that it has super adhesion.

And park these specially altered locos at the top and bottom of my grade in Altoona, Cresson, Johnstown PA, and attach them to the tail end of 1 mile long trains, going up or down, either the East Slope, or West Slope, where they are usually detached at either Altoona, or Johnstown PA