Glad you like it. I try to keep them short. Nobody has time for rambling 😁

Oh lol I got that wrong how embarrassing, thanks for pointing it out. This deserves a pin 📌.

Also FYI, these 4-6-2 locomotives were given the class type name of Pacifics in England. The same as 2-6-2T locomotives were referred to as Prairies!

Thanks yes and you'd think I'd know the wheel arrangement given I regularly fire a Prairie in real life :). I don't know why but your comment was held for review by YT so excuse the tardy reply please.

yes it is - it was originally an A1 Pacific and over the years was upgraded to A3 Pacific in its current form. It will go in for a new overhaul this year. I doubt it will move on from A3 as it would then become Mallard like which is the only remaining A4.

There are six A4 locos around today, out of a total of 35 built.

They're recorded on the locomotive. They're the real sounds properly timed to the chuffs. I've heard the raw recordings before the mixing. I reckon they're spot on. I'm surprised you like the SSS sounds the way they transition from loop to loop as you accelerate is pretty rough.

I understand that new one are , or have been recorded for the new pack being published by Caledonia works. And you heard the raw recordings before they were being used in TSW 4 ? , hmmm you must have special access to material us mere mortals don't then @@trainsimulatordriver

@@heydon2012 yep. These are all new recordings made specifically by DTG on trips with NRM to get the best most realistic sounds possible. It's cool to bring in external sound mods if that makes you happy and suits your expectation of what it should sound like but they aren't necessarily more realistic. I'm a steam engineman IRL and I'm pretty happy with the sounds. I think the only thing I'm used to that's missing is the deep long waveform vibrations but I also suspect that you'd need awesome headphones or a subwoofer to even reproduce them.

@@trainsimulatordriver well you referred to the steam sounds supreme sounds being on a loop , I don’t know which ones you heard because I believe they did update them to be compatible with the flying Scotsman’s 100 pack by DTG. Either way the TSW4 looks less ugly than the first 2 iterations of the sim , as I had like some distortion around the wheels of trains with the first 2 tSW , whether that was the sim or my RX5700XT Nitro+ graphics card who knows .

@@heydon2012 they did used to have wheel blur issues and that is resolved these days which is good. I have the SSS sounds for Scotsman on the 100 pack. There's three or maybe four loops it uses as the train increases speed.

It is now yes, but it was an A1

You know none of those things have been advertised as changing mate. Stop flogging the dead horse, she's not going to get up and pull your wagon.

Hi AWS is an audible and visual warning system to make the driver aware of adverse signals. If the driver approaches a yellow or red they must acknowledge within a few seconds or the train will stop itself for safety

@@trainsimulatordriver oh! Makes sense, however now I have to ask what the difference between isolated and unisolated is

@@LoonasHusband isolated turns it off, unisolated turns it on.

Go into settings, under accessibility there's a HUD type set it to minimal. I'll make a video for it next day or so.

@@herecomethelizards2 the fireman isn't actually implemented, the engines have magic steam. It isn't likely to progress beyond that point. What makes you think AWS doesn't work? It's been ok on every British route I've tried it on that supports AWS.

On PC use the Y to open left side doors and U to open right. On console is the left and right buttons on the dpad. You can look in settings to see all the controls

@@trainsimulatordriver that’s great il give that a try next time ! Thanks 😉

@@strains3551 you're welcome

On which train? And what are you doing right before it? And do you have any safety systems turned on? So many possibilities, if you're able to upload a video of your run from the start up to and including when the brakes come on that would be handy.

@@trainsimulatordriver I think I’ve sorted it I had the ejectors open and when I closed them the brakes never came on after a few laps around the test centre (flying Scotsman)

@@Rc.guy2010ah its Scotty! Scotsman has a difficult set up because it has both vacuum and air brakes. The locomotive always runs on air brakes but the train can be vacuum or air. Train formations that come with Scotty are all air braked. By default both Ejectors (creators of vacuum) should be off but if you put them on or they're on in the game for some reason - I had it happen today on stream and don't know if I put them on or if they were already on) then you need to close them and bleed the vacuum both from the engine (black lever behind reverser) and the reservoir on the tender (silver lever on drivers side at the back). Once the vacuum is bled off you should be ok. It is worth noting that the air brakes take a minute or so to pump up the entire train from zero or after a heavy application so you'll find your brakes are on for a while.

@@trainsimulatordriver thanks for helping

@@Rc.guy2010 😁

Looks like East Coast Main Line

Red square on the HUD? That means the train is interlocked. A condition is stopping it from driving. Either brakes are on, doors open, safety systems have triggered and not been acknowledged. What loco and route are you trying?

@@trainsimulatordriver the flying scotsman, but none of that has happened

@@fphtrains have you loaded from a saved game or checkpoint?

@@trainsimulatordriver ?

@@fphtrains ok since you don't know what they are I'll take that as a "no". The other possibility is brakes. Flying Scotsman has both vacuum and air brakes. What coaches do you have on the back?

My guess is you are playing on console? You need to download the routes from the base game package separately. You will already own whatever came in your bundle. Take a look in downloads under manage game and download them then you can use whatever is in your collection.

@@trainsimulatordriver Yes I have 6 trains and 4 routes only.

@@D.W91 sounds like TSW4 Standard Edition? Scotty should turn up as a railtour on some of them. If not, you can spawn it onto any route using Free Roam - not a tutorial, but this video shows how to free roam with another train kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLOHqsKQmp7KZ30.htmlsi=OHCopWT_nO3lb3v_

@@trainsimulatordriver Yes..Okay. Rotem B is nice train. I like it. And hey! Last time I told you I don't understand safety systems. Now I can drive full missions all systems ON! It's really fun.

@@D.W91 excellent, well done

There are no functional firing controls that do anything more than move when you touch them. Imaginary Coal and always full water combine to make magic steam.

​@@trainsimulatordriverjust tell me buttons

@@trainsimulatordriver I want to make steam come out of the tender

@@ollielovestrains223 lol

There is a difference between idiot and not knowing something :). Where is your reverser set? Once you get moving you should be able to have it around the 30% mark. The percentage is the amount of time that the steam inlet valve is open to the cylinder at each end of the stroke. When its wide open at 70% that is using a huge amount of steam using the raw boiler pressure to move the piston. Bringing it back to 30% means the inlet is open for less time and uses less steam relying on the steam expanding to provide the needed power. Up hills or for more acceleration stay in the higher 30's or even into the low 40's.

@trainsimulatordriver Thanks a bunch, I'll try to be more conservative with it in the future.

@@HorFrench it should help - let me know if something else is going on

No manual firing is not supported at all. The option is there as a future placeholder only.

@@trainsimulatordriver A huge negative for me. Managing the fire is a big part of the experience. This is like driving a sports car with an automatic transmission. Eew.

@@kleinbottled79 then you should look at Century of Steam it's going to have the nearest to realistic firing simulation as possible, what we've had in every simulator until this one is complete rubbish and unlike real firing (I'm a real life fireman). www.studio346.net/centuryofsteam.html

Well Americans use the Whyte notation which was adopted by the UK. These days nearly the entire world uses UIC although America that loves to be different adopted a simpler version called AAR.