Is there a way to set up 'speed zones' on one's layout?

JonMyrlennBailey

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Trainz Driver when launched starts out at an initial default 40 MPH. Both the HUD shows 40 MPH as the current speed limit and any AI driver starting out observes this.

Neither the AI driver nor the HUD will observe any change in speed limit until the train just passes the very next speed limit sign or invisible speed marker AHEAD of the train. It does not matter if a 10-MPH sign is placed a half mile BEHIND the train and another 10-MPH sign placed in FRONT of the train. The trains like to start off going 40 MPH right off the bat in this is especially bad if this happens in an area with tight turns or in a yard.

Ideally, ENTIRE sections of track BETWEEN speed signs and markers should be designated as speed zones whereby the game always recognizes the speed for the zone any train happens to be in at any particular time or point on the track as determined by the very first speed sign or marker immediately BEHIND the train.
 
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Not possible.

So what you do it put an invisible speed sign a few feet in front of the AI train or position the AI train a few feet before a speed sign.

Problem solved.
 
An increasing speed board is always immediately recognized by the head end loco, as it pass's the increasing speedboard.

A decreasing speedboard is only recognized when the last car pass's the decreasing speedboard

A train will do half speed when there is an unsignaled line

With my 5280' long trains, speedboards are a major problem, and I use Invisible Speedboards, and set their config files to "surveyor only 0", so I can see them in driver.

Oftentimes in my yard I have to sandwich a 40mph speedboard right behind a 10mph speedboard, or versa visa, (a RR tie apart from each other) so my train does not slow down too much, or speed away, through yard turnouts. For setting speedboards up, I have a (a New Consist") 5280' measuring train in surveyor. Some of my speedborads are a 40/10, while others are a 10/40, depending on what I want the train to do, when the head end, or rear end pass's my double speedboards. I have noticed that anything less than a 10mph speedboard, a train hunts, and pecks, speeding then slowing down, through complex turnouts.

See my ALCO Land route: https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pli...95884a3ed12789
 
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It's the other way round. If the new speedlimit is lower than the current limit, the new speedlimit becomes the current limit as soon as the first traincar passes the sign. If the new speedlimit is higher than the current limit, the new speedlimit becomes the current limit when the last traincar passes the sign.

Peter
 
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