How do I preset a speed.

[AntonyVW]

I have a shed area where the speed within the limits is 15mph. However I have noticed that if a loco starts off within that area its initial speed is set to 40 not 15. How do I preset any loco that is starting within the speed zone to have that speed preset?

Thanks
Antony

 

[cascaderailroad]

Use trackside asset speedboards, and also invisible speedboards.

Anything slower than 10mph, and 8kph, results in AI jumping and slowing at every spline point.

I like 10mph as it is very smooth.

Anything slower is like watching the grass grow, or like watching molassas slide downhill on a cold winters day.

Configurable Invisible Speedboard <KUID2:60697:23000:1>
010mph Invisible <KUID:142454:23002>

There are thousands of speedboards, all named weirdly, all widely spaced out all over creation on the DLS (QR, CSX ... etc ...)

As a general rule a consist will act on a slower speedboard as the loco passes ... and will react to a higher numeral speedboard after the last car in the consist passes.

 

[dnevans8]

There are max speed commands which could be used as a first command or at any time during a trains journey that will set the maximum speed to below the track speed.

https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=184759 (mph)
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=184760 (kph)

 

[AntonyVW]

Thanks guys - just what I wanted

Mm - just tried to download the configurable speedboards and they come up red in cm - message tells me it cant find path to asset

 

[cascaderailroad]

If you are modeling the UK you might want a metric (kph) speedboard (there are many hundereds, all spread out all over the DLS, by many confusing different names.

Describe what type/style of speedboard that you want, and I may be able to find it for you.

But the invisble ones by Biddle are really great !

010mph Invisible <KUID:142454:23002>

He also made 05mph Invisible, 15, 20 ... etc

QR Speed RHS 10k <KUID2:46415:23015:2> (also available in LHS versions, in various speeds)

 

[AntonyVW]

Thanks cascaderailroad. Despite CM complaining about not being able to find what I wanted - it was on the black pages on the dls so I eventually got that and some of the speedboards you mentioned from there. A couple of questions though. You said if I was looking for the UK I might want to use KPH rather than MPH. Have our railways transferred over unlike our roads? Second - on the configurable invisible speedboards am I supposed to be able to change from single track to something else? If so its not clickable to change

 

[cascaderailroad]

I have no expertise with configurable speedboards ... but if you hop on Skype IM, I will be able to direct you, with what you want.

The reason I use invisible speedboards by Biddle, is because I need not see a barrage of different visible speedboards, when invisible ones are available.

I was using CSX Speedboards, but my trainz were clipping the signs, and some signs were in the gauge, and fouling turnouts ... invisible speedboards solve that problem greatly !

Some of the 5 kph, 7 kph, 8 kph, and 10 kph metric speedboards, achive a slower speed, than a 10mph Imperial speedboards.

I adjusted my speedboards so that they are visible (for easier movement around in surveyor), by eliminating the surveyor-only config file tag (I can always put the tag back i again to make them invisible).

 

[AntonyVW]

Are you on skype at the moment? Its 9:20 pm here in the UK

Funnily enough as I just posted this up (having had a break for a half hour) I can now access the other items available. Im guessing it was just a glitch and just needed the game restarting.