cascaderailroad
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I have a hump yard at the Altoona Juniata Scales, that has a coal hopper, scale weighing station ... the train is slowly shoved over the hump, and teams of rail car riders climb the ladders, and man the handbrakes on individual railcars ... one by one the individual railcars roll down to the scale weighing station (the scale has a slight downhill gradient of -0.20%), where car riders apply the handbrakes, and bring the railcars to a brief halt for weighing ... then when weighing is completed, the car riders release the handbrakes, and ride the railcars down into the hump yard classification bowl.
Is this possible in Trainz ?
I use the pink Speed retarders, and the TPR Hump Yard kit.
When a pink Speed Retarder halts a railcar ... Is there any way to toggle it off and re-release handbrakes, and let the railcar resume rolling ?
I have made it possible to slow railcars down to below 1 mph when free rolling over the scale, and it looks fairly good, but is not realistic, as railcars need to stop momentarily while on the scale ... I need to apply handbrakes, then release handbrakes on the stopped railcars, once again allow them to roll downhill again.
Altoona never had any retarders in it's hump yards
See Matlin Yard route: [This is a modification of Matlin Yard that changes the classification yard to a working hump yard. Just uncouple each of your cars before backing it over the hump. As you back the train a reasonably slow speed over the hump the cars will roll into the hump yard. The drawback is that there are on retarders on the lead tracks. You have the brake the cars as they gain speed, but once you release the brakes they begin to roll again]
Is this possible in Trainz ?
I use the pink Speed retarders, and the TPR Hump Yard kit.
When a pink Speed Retarder halts a railcar ... Is there any way to toggle it off and re-release handbrakes, and let the railcar resume rolling ?
I have made it possible to slow railcars down to below 1 mph when free rolling over the scale, and it looks fairly good, but is not realistic, as railcars need to stop momentarily while on the scale ... I need to apply handbrakes, then release handbrakes on the stopped railcars, once again allow them to roll downhill again.
Altoona never had any retarders in it's hump yards
See Matlin Yard route: [This is a modification of Matlin Yard that changes the classification yard to a working hump yard. Just uncouple each of your cars before backing it over the hump. As you back the train a reasonably slow speed over the hump the cars will roll into the hump yard. The drawback is that there are on retarders on the lead tracks. You have the brake the cars as they gain speed, but once you release the brakes they begin to roll again]
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