Heinrich505
Active member
Gents,
I want to thank p-dehnert for that intriguing detail about the coal loads changing.
I went back to the session TS19 Coal to Richmond and started as usual. Once I had loaded all the coal hoppers, I edited the session on the fly. I was going to change the coal loads from the full 90800 to around 2/3rds of that. I roughly calculated that to be a load of 90800 x 2/3 = 60534 (rounded up). The session wouldn't let me change the loads to the cars, so I deleted them and replaced them with the same 12 coal hoppers, but this time loaded them with 60534 instead of the 90800.
At the message to hit V (sander) and throw the throttle to notch 8, I was doing 18mph. I did this and was speeding at 24/20mph limit as I hit the base of the hill. From there I lost speed quickly, but was doing 12mph across the trestle and 11mph as I started up the grade after the trestle. I made it all the way up.
I retried this, but only hit the V key at the message, and didn't throw the throttle to notch 8 until almost at the 20mph sign. So, I wasn't speeding as I started up the hill. Speed bled off quickly again, but I was doing 11mph as I approached the trestle, and kept up the 11mph all the way over the trestle, and actually increased to 12mph as I got close to the switch to the siding. Again, success.
The long and short of this is, by reducing the coal amount by 1/3, which is about what the Auran Coal kuid change was, I am able to finish the session as intended by Scratchy.
That kuid change definitely had a negative impact on sessions that had been created using coal loads. I'm thinking that the sessions 03 - Coal Service and the PRR Decapod Coal Load will now be successfully completed if the coal load is reduced by 1/3rd for each coal hopper.
Heinrich505
Note - I reduced the coal load by 1/3 for each car in the session 03 - Coal Service and made it to the top of the hill with no problems.
I want to thank p-dehnert for that intriguing detail about the coal loads changing.
I went back to the session TS19 Coal to Richmond and started as usual. Once I had loaded all the coal hoppers, I edited the session on the fly. I was going to change the coal loads from the full 90800 to around 2/3rds of that. I roughly calculated that to be a load of 90800 x 2/3 = 60534 (rounded up). The session wouldn't let me change the loads to the cars, so I deleted them and replaced them with the same 12 coal hoppers, but this time loaded them with 60534 instead of the 90800.
At the message to hit V (sander) and throw the throttle to notch 8, I was doing 18mph. I did this and was speeding at 24/20mph limit as I hit the base of the hill. From there I lost speed quickly, but was doing 12mph across the trestle and 11mph as I started up the grade after the trestle. I made it all the way up.
I retried this, but only hit the V key at the message, and didn't throw the throttle to notch 8 until almost at the 20mph sign. So, I wasn't speeding as I started up the hill. Speed bled off quickly again, but I was doing 11mph as I approached the trestle, and kept up the 11mph all the way over the trestle, and actually increased to 12mph as I got close to the switch to the siding. Again, success.
The long and short of this is, by reducing the coal amount by 1/3, which is about what the Auran Coal kuid change was, I am able to finish the session as intended by Scratchy.
That kuid change definitely had a negative impact on sessions that had been created using coal loads. I'm thinking that the sessions 03 - Coal Service and the PRR Decapod Coal Load will now be successfully completed if the coal load is reduced by 1/3rd for each coal hopper.
Heinrich505
Note - I reduced the coal load by 1/3 for each car in the session 03 - Coal Service and made it to the top of the hill with no problems.
