Hi Guy's
The mass for a unit(litre) of commodity such as coal in trainz is variable.
For instance:-
Coal Product, kuid:44179:60013 by VaughanK is 0.86Kg per unit/litre
Ballast product, kuid:113998:9003 by jimm is 0.96 per unit/litre
and so on and so forth.
Here are the loadings I worked out for the SAR OB tarped Gondola:-
Trainz loading
Mass tare 18100 (18.1T)
Load 33400 (33.4t)
Gross 51500 (51.5t)
Trainz loads,
wood chips 83500 (33.4t)
Bulk Fertilizer 26000 (31t)
Bauxite 26000 (33.3t)
Ballast 20000 (32t)
Gravel 20000 (30.5t)
sand 20000 (30.5t)
Wool Bale 50 (10.2t)
Notice each setting for maximum permissable load brought the Gross weight of the vehicle to
below its maximum permissable weight.
If you check these vehicles loaded too there max permissable eg, 20000 for ballast, in driver. You will see that the loaded vehicle comes out at:-
50.1t.
Or 18,100kg (the initial weight of the vehicle) plus 32,000Kg (the weight of the load). Giving 50,100Kg.
Actually this thread now makes me realise, I will have too recalculate all the coal capacity's in the tenders I have done.
Gee thank's guy's.
Cheer's all,
Alex