More power for Mack Railbus

rtracey · Post by **rtracey** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:29 am

This may sound crazy but i`m wanting to give my Mack railbus more power to climb the inclines of the Switchback RR, i`ve just about mastered wag and sms files but i`m still clueless with eng files! just which bit of the eng file do I modify to give it more climbing power?
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bravedan · Post by **bravedan** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:17 am

Suggest you Download Rudolf Richter's excellent paper on .eng and .wag files from the Utilities Section of:-

http://steam4me.railpage.org.au/trainsi ... html#other

Regards,

Dave

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:44 pm

It's a combination of 'MaxForce', 'MaxContinuousForce', 'MaxPower' and 'MaxVelocity' and I'm not really sure if there's a defined relationship between any of them.
MaxPower seems more concerned with Electric and Diesel locos while MaxForce and MaxContinuousForce are more steam oriented - but it's not that simple as all of the parameters seem to have some effect on performance.

Suck it and see (a popular MSTS euphemism for detailed and painstaking research and experiment) is my best advice at this stage...

rtracey · Post by **rtracey** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:28 pm

Cheers, but i`ve just thought of a quicker solution, I could actually look at the eng file of the switchback car that came with the route, yep I know what your thinking, an eng file for a carriage thats hauled by a cable, but underneath its a KHIA 31 with a beefed up power plant!