Rail Ends (bumpers) actually stop rolling stock?

[davesnow]

I distinctly remember in the old forums (before the big crash of 2006) that there was a "fix" for TRS06 whereby rail ends (bumpers if you will) were fixed so they would actually stop rolling wagons (rail cars) and there would be no derailing. I'm very sure I read about this fix all those years ago. Why wasn't this much needed feature carried over to later versions of Trainz?

 

[dougtrain]

Hi Dave I think I recall this scenario but as you say it was a long time ago. I think I the idea was to frig the config and make the buffers into a traincar. There would be no coupling involved and the buffers would just give the impression of being a wagon. The only other bit I remember was you needed some invisible track behind the buffers with invisible buffers that would be track end "showing" a red light. There might be more to this but it may help to jog a memory somewhere.

Doug

 

[MeowRailroad]

I think that they do stop stuff, you just need to be going slowly. In real life trains usually don't go all the way to the bumper.

 

[kin3]

Years ago this railroad, close to where I worked, did some work on the track and removed the bumpers and didn't put them back in when they were finished. Later on a switch engine pushed a car down the track and the rail car went across a paved road and then into a brick warehouse. They put the bumper back up.

Had nothing to do with your problem but I will always remember seeing the box car sticking half way into the warehouse.

 

[RRSignal]

I believe some bumpers are signals fixed at a permanent state of 00 (STOP). That should prevent trains from attempting to proceed past them. I have an invisible signal with a "fixed" mode that can be set to absolute stop to accomplish this as well when set to "Absolute Stop".

 

[mikeaust]

The stopping ones are about. I installed some Max Werks routes lately and when I merged them I didn't notice the bumpers on the track near the join. I ran a train in DCC to check the route and it derailed at the bumper (stopped it dead). The routes were Austin Western.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[torino72]

Dave, check this thread. Click the link for post #3. It discusses the buffer speed tag (in m/sec).

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?75285-n00b-question-8342-bumpers-that-bump

I tried this with a bumber I have in TS-2010 (Buffer #3 - 1930s, kuid2:187586:28079:2) that already had the buffer speed tag set at 8. I drifted a loco and two cars into the buffer at 3 mph and it stopped them without derailing. At a higher speed but under 10 mph it derailed the train. I think 8m/sec equates to something around 15mph so I'm not sure about the accuracy of the number setting vs train/car speed. You might experiment with this and see if this is what you are looking for.

 

[Red_Rattler]

By bumpers, I presume you mean buffers? I think that some may stop trains/trams, if the track ends.
But I find that you need a signal or least a trackmark near the buffer.

 

[boleyd]

Wouldn't a nice big steam locomotive at 5mph just tear through a wooden buffer? A heavily loaded box car may do the same. Need a fancy buffer that calculates its reaction based upon mass and speed. Is there any standard in real railroads?

If I were designing one of these I would incorporate a "sand-pit" at the end. Highways use these with great effect to stop trucks that loose their brakes on a downhill section. Some rail games pride themselves on dramatized derailments. Yes, a locomotive at 20mph would probably need a tremendous pile of sand.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I used to have problems with runaway, run through, freightcars rolling out my hump yard throat exit ... so I placed a loco there to catch them ... you could place an invisible loco at the bumpers on an extension of invisatrack ... and too you could configure a railcar as a loco using Cyberstorms Superadaptor

Or place a sharp incline of invisatrack beyond the bumper, so railcars roll back out again

I use the pink speed retarders, in secession, and set several of them to SLOW, and the last one to STOP, however the settings only stay set fixed in a session, and revert to default in a route