What does "ai brake" mean?

[whyfly]

I recently noticed a joined red and green arrowhead floating above a track. I have no idea what it meant, but when I clicked "ai brake" in Find Objects, it took me to the red/green arrows.

What does it mean? Is there a problem on that stretch of track? How do I fix and/or get rid of it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Art
(whyfly)

 

[Overdijk]

It's an invisible brake assist car. You put it in between freightcars to increase your braking of the complete train. Otherwise certain very long trains will overshoot almost every signal.

 

[transitguard]

the AI brake is an invisible locomotive designed to be used with AI engineers in trainz. The extra loco makes them stop faster so they don't over-run signals and the like.

--EDIT-- Simultaneous posts.

 

[Dermmy]

I recently noticed a joined red and green arrowhead floating above a track. I have no idea what it meant, but when I clicked "ai brake" in Find Objects, it took me to the red/green arrows.

What does it mean? Is there a problem on that stretch of track? How do I fix and/or get rid of it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Art
(whyfly)

Art

As stated above the 'ai brake' is a very small invisible 'loco' designed to be inserted in a normal train to assist braking power when the train is running under AI control. Normally it should not be a problem. However I suspect from your post that you have an 'ai brake' sitting on the track by itself. If so you do have a problem in so much as it is in effect an unusable, undrivable 'train' on your tracks. The ai brake is so small it is very difficult to delete. The easiest way to get rid of it is to place any other item of rolling stock on the track, couple the visible wagon to the invisible loco, swap to 'consist' view and delete the consist....

Andy

 

[whyfly]

Thanks for the info, guys. Dermmy, that was the cure.

Art