Steam Engine fuel consumption

[JimDep]

For steam engines, in general, which parameter(s) can I adjust in the engine specs to be able to go through coal and water faster than than what's it currently doing ? Overall, I'd like to get it to correlate also with having the boiler pressure go up when adding fuel, but I'll take it one step at a time.
Thanks

 

[2995Valliant]

Increasing the value of the burn-rate tag will make it burn through more coal. However in real life that will mean more steam is produced, and depending on who wrote the spec for Trainz you may have the same problem. You can counter this by reducing the max-fire-temperature and/or the fuel-energy tags.

Incidentally adding coal will cool the fire initially, so adding coal alone won't make the boiler pressure go up. Standing, it'll make no difference at all unless you have the blower on, working the engine hard you'll see the benefit some time after, depending on the size of the engine.

 

[JimDep]

Increasing the value of the burn-rate tag will make it burn through more coal. However in real life that will mean more steam is produced, and depending on who wrote the spec for Trainz you may have the same problem. You can counter this by reducing the max-fire-temperature and/or the fuel-energy tags.

Incidentally adding coal will cool the fire initially, so adding coal alone won't make the boiler pressure go up. Standing, it'll make no difference at all unless you have the blower on, working the engine hard you'll see the benefit some time after, depending on the size of the engine.

Thanks, I'll run some tests on this. Actually I'm using wood burning engines, but there is no script for woodburners, so I have to use whatever parameters that applies to coal. Normally, for one example, in real life, leaving the firebox door open when the engine is stopped with help keep the steam pressure needle down, but unfortunately that doesn't apply in Trainz.