General Electrical Goods

[Kimril]

I was in a Class 70 for quite a while on this scenario drove about 46 miles, and at one point around a bend the train just de railed due to 'consist tilt'. I wasn't speeding, the track speed limit was 90mph and i was doing just under 75mph as i noticed 75mph is the max for the class 70. The ride was pretty bumpy through that part of the route and it was very steep downhill, i was braking a fair bit to keep my speed under 75 could that be why I de-railed? Due to braking to hard?

Anyone else have this problem or did i just mess up? :p

[sundog]

I've had derailments because of braking too hard - recently I was trying out one of the demo scenarios for Krellnut's fantastic sound pack for the US SD70, and I had a derailment because of my bad braking. Sounds like you did the same thing!

[Kariban]

It's most likely bad physics, nothing either of you did wrong. US stuff is usually because of either springy couplers - 750N/m is not really very much springing when your head end is putting down something in the order of 1meganewton or more - or the wrong units in dynamic braking ( which having made a new sim blueprint recently I notice is fixed... pity whoever did HSC wasn't using that edition ), this is probably something similar. Can you remember which part of the route the derailment happened on? sounds like Beattock, but it'd be helpful to know.

[Kimril]

Its hard to say, i can't actually remeber the location of it. I remeber there was a motorway running along the left hand side of the track before the bend, and that it was really steep downhill. The train was getting thrown around a bit, maybe it was just a dodgy bit of track, who knows. Im not complaining, im new to this game and want to learn as much as I can, and the only way i can do that is by messing up

[Natvander]

Another potential issue with older routes is that the prototypical speed limit is for track with superelevation, but the route in game was made before superelevation.

There's a curve in Bristol-Exeter that I constantly derail at using different rollingstock, even though traveling under the speed limit.