Advanced welded to the rails syndrome

meonia · Post by **meonia** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:17 am

This is an old topic I know, but the search didn't help.

I'm simming the Burton-Derby BD1_Donisthorpe_CoalAct1. I couple onto the 21 Ton mineral wagon trian and thats it! Full power to the Littleton, sander on, and I go nowhere. I corrected the bounding boxes, even replaced the 21 Ton mineral wagon physics with those of a wagon that does work and the train still doesn't move. The littletons wheels spin but it cant move those wagons. All brakes are off but the wheels are still welded to the rails.

Any suggestion of what else I can do would be much appreciated.

Mike.

john13 · Post by **john13** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:42 am

Hi

I had the same a while back with an activity on Talyllyn. The solution ( thanks to Steve Pontin) was to have the automatic fireman on. Not obvious to me why this worked - but it did.

jbilton · Post by **jbilton** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:15 am

Hi Mike
I've just had a look through the BD stock...and I can't see these trucks?
However I have some in another route...and it would appear that the auto coupling ones have hand brakes only...but the chain couplings are vacuum braked.
There is an msts bug that will not allow vacuum brakes to be released...therefore people have altered them to be through piped in the past.
Cheers
Jon

47522 · Post by **47522** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:27 am

Are you using the front coupler?

meonia · Post by **meonia** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:34 pm

JBilton wrote:

...and it would appear that the auto coupling ones have hand brakes only...but the chain couplings are vacuum braked.
There is an msts bug that will not allow vacuum brakes to be released...therefore people have altered them to be through piped in the past.

Thanks Jon, this was indeed the case. I altered ther brakes as you mentioned and the 21 Ton mineral wagons work fine now.

I think half the fun of MSTS is getting the stuff to work. I wonder if TMTS and KRS will make our brains dull from lack of exercise?

Mike.