Thank you :) I would love to do a NG steam locomotive but I've never been able to find engineering drawings of a good enough quality and quantity. They probably don't exist.

What kind of drawings

@@tower5128 A typical set of drawings covers every individual part of the locomotive, even separate pins and bolts. There can be hundreds or even thousands of drawings in the complete set for one loco.

@@Smokebox that is a lot It makes your work even more incredible.

Hello Paula, can you give a bit more info? Are you able to start TSC and run other scenarios? Is it happening only with the Challenger? Only in certain types of scenario, e.g. Quick Drive? Only on certain routes? Do the scenarios fail to start at all or can you get into them but then something else happens? The more info you can give, the easier it will be to find the solution to your particular problem.

Yes, you can. Wasatch Grade is only needed for the career scenarios that were written for the pack.

Thanks for the reply!

It also depends on the route, the graphical settings, the video card, the processor, etc. I have only 12 GB of RAM in my 15 year old PC (still with its original motherboard) and can get to 60 fps if I turn down some of the settings. The fps also depends a lot on the scenery that's being rendered in the background. It will change as you rotate the camera around.

Hey. Thanks for the reply! I might buy the addon.

The scripts are part of the DLC (and each one is customsied to a partlcular type or class of locomotive), not available separately.

​@@Smokebox OH! I see. The train's that come with B&O Subdivision are like that already. I'll add it to my shopping list!

Ctrl Shift Spacebar

Hi Franquito, unfortunately they're scripted to take damage above a certain speed. However, your idea of being able to disable that is a good one. I could do that with a special key and also automatically for AI locos. I'll try to do that when I have time.

@@Smokebox Thank you for the answer😁and you are welcome for the idea🤙

I often get asked to do it. Maybe one day I will, but it would require a lot of work to convert it to the restored 4014.

Thanks Jacob, much appreciated!

@@Smokebox Quick question about the Big Boy though. I'm having a problem with the brake gauge in the cab not matching up to the F4 controls. First service gives me a 0.3psi set according to F4, but the gauge in the cab keeps dipping, below 70psi, and braking doesnt seem to be happening. So, I put the brakes in service, F4 gauge eventually comes down. I put train brakes in Lap, and both brake gauges indicate brakes are still being applied. I simply couldn't make 5 or 8 pound sets, it was 40 or nothing. Is there a workaround for this? It was only a major problem today trying to come down feather river. I had the 4k ton 83 freight car load.

@@jacobaubertin645 Hi Jacob. The F4 gauge isn't compatible with the advanced brake simulation. You must use the gauges in the cab. Same goes for the F5 data, which you should ignore. Make sure to read all the relevant information in the manual, starting on page 41. For First Service, make sure that the First Service Position Cut-out Cock is in the "In" position, otherwise that brake notch will act as another Lap position. First Service, when enabled, will give a 6-8 psi set.

@@Smokebox Thank you again! I think I figured it out after reading the manual/continuing to fiddle with it wrongly. Use apply and lap settings to command the equalizing reservoir to my desired set while bailing off the engine brakes, then wait for the brake pipes to match the equalizer? My confusion was coming from the pipe pressure still moving in Lap, but I realise now it was trying to match the reservoir.

@@jacobaubertin645 That's right. In fact, that was the first major breakthrough in the advanced brake simulation. In the default simulation, there's no lag at all, no accounting for the length of the consist and brake pipe pressure wave propagation times, leakages, auxiliary reservoir recharge behaviour, etc. That's all simulated in the scripted brakes.

Thanks, glad you like them! I haven't experienced the problem you're having but if we can get in touch tomorrow I'll try to set up a way to investigate it together. Are you able to broadcast via Steam?

@@Smokebox I think I can broadcast via Steam, I’ll have to check it out. Although I did try this: I switched over to Simple Controls Mode, and I was able to get the FEF-3 up to 100 MPH with no issues. So this makes me wonder if I’m doing something wrong while in Expert Controls Mode

@@mrplane4205 Do you have the game's default auto fireman turned off in the game settings?

@@Smokebox no I do not

@@mrplane4205 That could be the cause. It's essential to turn off the default auto fireman before using the FEF-3, Big Boy or Heavy Challenger.

The 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex is definitely an interesting locomotive.

It's Ctrl Shift B, although currently it's not implemented on all diesels, so if you find it doesn't work, that's why :)

Which one is the maker (marker? Mars?) light?

I don't think the Big Boys ever wore the Greyhound livery, and if they did, it would have been only for those converted to oil (because only the oil-fuelled Challengers were given the Greyhound livery, for when they worked the Overland passenger services).

I mean make ur own model on train simulator

Thanks :) There are three career scenarios for the Wasatch Grade route (available separately).

store.steampowered.com/app/277740/Train_Simulator_Union_Pacific_FEF3_Loco_AddOn/?curator_clanid=958135

Make sure dynamic lighting is enabled, then use U and Shift+U.

@@Smokebox thank you 😁

That's not something I have currently in the update plan.

My model depicts the Big Boys as they were in the mid 1940s :)

I asked Dovetail about this and they say that it's a problem in the core code of TS itself. The scenario is correct but something goes wrong when the game tries to record the scenario in Steam's database. It happens in many other scenarios, on many routes, and currently Dovetail don't know the cause and don't have a fix for it, which is a pity.

@@Smokebox Ah that's a shame. I appreciate you asking Dovetail about the issue. Thank you for that and the amazing locomotive. Cheers!

It's a possibility. We'll have to wait and see.

No, that one was made by dovetail I believe.

The old one was made a long time ago by Iron Horse House (IHH). Later on it was acquired by RSC/DTG and I think Milepost Simulations might have added a little bit more detail to it for their Wasatch Grade route.

@@Smokebox ah ty sorry for the late replay and one more question, do you think a 9000 class would perhaps be made in the future, just to kind of complete up's big haulers

@@shortlinestudios I'd like to make a 9000 class but I'd have to see if the original drawings survived the clear out.

@@Smokebox I’m sure you could find them somewhere however you make have to sell your liver just to get them lol

I would love to do something a NYC Hudson or Niagara but it's very difficult to get the necessary drawings.

There's no visual indication of the overall fire mass but instead what you see is the build up of coal banks in the different corners of the grate, as well as to each side and in the centre. When the draft changes, such as when working the locomotive hard or, conversely, coasting, it's important to adjust the stoker manifold and stoker jets so as to get the coal to the various areas of the grate in the right relative amounts. For that reason, I've animated the actual coal banks, so you should open the firebox doors now and then (with the stoker switched off) and scan the firebox to see if the coal bed is more or less level. If it isn't adjust the jets accordingly. There are two reasons I don't animate the overall level. The first is that it makes it more difficult to do the coal banks, but the second is that really the most realistic way of running the loco HUDless doesn't involve looking at the firebox to see how much coal is in it. Instead, you should get the locomotive running steadily with the right amount of back pressure (which you can see on the back pressure gauge above the brake gauges) and then watch the boiler pressure carefully. If it's dropping from the ideal of around 279 psi, you increase the stoker pressure a little bit, and keep on doing that until the boiler pressure stays steady with the safeties feathering. If the safeties are continually lifting, you need to reduce the stoking rate. I think FanRailer did a tutorial video for my Big Boy where he explains and demonstrates this very well. I'll see if I can find it.

Here's FanRailer's (one of my expert beta testers) tutorial on the fireman's tasks (manual firing) in the Big Boy, which is equally applicable to the Challenger: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdWgjZyJss-Uj5c.html

@@Smokebox Thanks so much for the detailed reply and the link. I did some more driving/experimenting since my comment and reading your responses now, it's all making more sense. I did have the thought that animating a coal bank on top of a moving level of coal would be quite difficult too. I tried your method of running so that the safety valves only feather and through careful adjustment of the stoker pressure, I think I got it nailed. Now to try and fine-tune my coal placement and try to keep it all as level as possible lol. I'll check out that link. Thanks again :)

@@Smokebox Quick question: is there any way to suppress the messages regarding the stoker getting jammed and sight glasses getting clogged? Would be awesome to have to check these manually. But I understand if it's not possible. Cheers

@@HarmanMotorWorks Currently it's not possible but I could add a key command for that in the next patch.

No, sorry.

@@Smokebox it's all good

I've no idea, I don't have the F40 or the enhancement pack. Maybe someone else came up with the same idea as me independently.

Union Pacific (clean, dirty and silver-trimmed) and Rio Grande (clean).

so no greyhound with smoke deflectors?

@@manageable_f164 No, because the greyhound was only on the oil-fuel converted locos. You can put smoke deflectors on though (click the "ash pan middle" valve).

@@Smokebox Thanks!

I'm probably going to upgrade the Big Boy first and then I might start on a UP 0-6-0 switcher steam loco.

@@Smokebox that's awesome! However I don't get why you'd want to upgrade the Big Boy, it's basically perfect.

@@kackdackel9170 One or two scripting improvements (things I discovered when doing the Challenger), textures improved with the use of Substance Painter, marker lights on the tender, that sort of thing, nothing really major, just making it as good as the Challenger.

@@Smokebox hi, sorry for the intrusion, heard you are planning on a 0-6-0 switch, may I recommend UP 4466? Her career was performing switching chores in Cheyenne

@@christianjohnson9190 Thanks for the heads up about UP 4466 :)

It shouldn't do, although I only use it in QD and Free Roam. For scripted scenarios I leave it alone.

@@Smokebox Probably for the best. Great work!

It's scheduled for release tomorrow.

@@Smokebox nice! ill try to get it.

i got it and i love the whistle 2 sound

@@biggestfloppa_1 That's taken from 3985 when its whistle was very worn, giving it a distinctive sound.