25:26 I think increasing the F range is a must. It's not "realistic", but this is a game. It's a QOL feature to make up for not having a whole crew nor hours of time to get a job done.
Useful thing to know: those little hook hangers can be used to hang lanterns. They don’t need tools to be put in and are removed with the hammer. They can be useful if you want to do something like hang a lantern on the side of a locomotive to see the oil cups or to mark where the water hatch is, or hang a lantern from the ceiling of the cab or inside the caboose. They can also be attached to cars if you want to mark a cut at night.
I like to use the caboose more as a mobile home at the moment. I put hooks on both sides of the Caboose next to both Doors so I could put a lantern outside the rear of my train since I don't put it at the end of train, I put it at the end of my locomotive or Museum train.
Yah Hyce, extending teleport distance is totally fine, your 'F" suffered enough trough those years Also I bet much longer teleport for sure will give us other chances to laugh, like teleporting too far, missing running train and falling off bridge somehow ;)
I would LOVE to see you and Khan do a “Pimp My S282” where you have to build locos for each other and create the most gaudy, awkward, and so 2000’s locomotive but with each other in mind
So from my limited experience with the Switch Setter, it activates for the next switch in the line within the range set. if you set it in auto, it will choose front or rear based on your reverser setting. relative setting shows the switch as if you were physically facing towards it, where absolute shows the side of the train that the switch is lined to. (My preference is absolute, since the unit is anchored to the train and doesnt move.)
@@icebolt0864Based on my opinion, the dispatcher license seems better for initial route planning due to the fact you can set the route beforehand within both the station map and route map, with the only switches not being toggle-able are the ones in the sidings/sections-of-track where the freight cars are stored.
I'm supposed to be on break not working. Also I'm house of 18v DeWalts. Unless I am taking care of outstanding debtors, then I am temporarily in the house of Milwaukee
I also have a whole bunch of 18v DeWalts, given to me a by a relative when they upgraded. But I also have some Ryobi, a Skil, and a Rigid, so make of that what you will.
Member of house ryobi here, I'm going to screenshot the part where the cars were doing the cha cha slide at 15:29 & send it to ppl when they ask me why after the update I still tend to throw switches manually. I like to see what's going on thank you very much
Today we give thanks...that Hyce managed to prevent yet another derailment this time. A minor one by this railroad's standards, but still a serious pain to clean up. Always glad to see your videos! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
In Canada, we use 50ft as our car lengths, since a lot of hoppers, tanks, and boxcars are still 50-60ft. 85 is an interesting one since bulkhead flats and centerbeams are usually 73-75ft, and intermodal are 95ft per platform. Autoracks are usually around 85 I suppose.
The Switch Setter: Orient(ation) selects which direction to look for switches - ahead, behind, or in the direction of travel. Mode: Abs(olute) means the left light means the switch is set to the path on the loco/cab's left side, Rel(ative) means it's on the left side according to the direction of travel, i.e. swaps the lights when you're going backwards.
I say go ahead and switch difficulties. Youre F key has suffered enough. Btw you can change the "livery" with the coms radio. The new DVRT and demo on the S282 are both gorgeous
Happy Thanksgiving to you! Regarding tool choice, I'm a Dewalt guy, but the only power tool I interact with in a regular basis is one of their heat guns, so I don't have a large opinion. To answer your inquiry as to the F key distance, you could decide to play in full comfort mode and I wouldn't mind a bit. You are the only person whose say matters when it comes to how you want to play the game, we're just along for the ride.
House 18V DeWalt here, with about half of them being rescues from Pacific Steel Casting's pattern shop up in Berkeley when they closed. They look beat to crap and are spattered with silver and black paint and who-knows-what from living in a foundry, and they just keep ticking and I am very fond of them.
House Makita, formerly house Ryobi, but then I got adult money. Maybe not as powerful, but it comes with built-in theft deterrent blue, and will work forever.
Before watching this video, just got derail valley for myself and proceeded to déjà Vu, some cars. Then to watch hyce do the same thing. 😆. And happy thanksgiving to hyce and all my american neighbors.
House Makita, though my grandpa recently gave me a spare set of Flex. So House Flekita? I'd say go for the farther F distance. Just makes getting around much faster, and less tortuous to your F key.
Thankful for you, Hyce/Mark, and your passion and joy that is infectious and entertaining at the same time. Thanks for the countless hours and effort you put into not just your content but also your community and the community of train nerds as a whole. Here's to many more years of mutual support, me monetarily and you... Erm. Commentarily? Lol 🍻
House Ryobi here. I got a drill. An impact drill. An oscillating tool. A reciprocating saw. A flashlight. A circular saw. A leaf blower(40v). A grass mower(40v). For now. I will have to replace my old tools for ryobis: Edge trimmer, shop vac, chainsaw... And surely more!
The switch setter is super useful on longer trips and also saved me when going through stations, it makes it way simpler than always pulling out the radio thingy
Hey Hyce, the next video should be hauling with the DMU. That totally won't go terribly wrong, it's not like it isn't rated for hauling or shunting at all.
The length of cars used for calculation of the usable track and platform length is 25 m, at least in Poland. The EU Technical Specification of Interoperability assumes the longest train of 1050 m, which is 40 cars + 2 locos. The standard for structure gauge (EN 15273-3) assumes the max. bogie pivots distance of 20 m and almost 6 m further to the buffers. The post-Soviet standard for structure gauge (ГОСТ 9238) assumes the pivots distance of 17 m and the total length of 24 m. The value of 25 m nicely fits four times into a hectometer which is marked with stones or plates along the line. That's the perspective of a civil engineer 👷🏼
House Ryobi (beats harbor fright nonsense) and by all means give the poor F key a rest. Can't believe you saved that one - can we call it a Splinch? tehee. thanks for the fun! :)
I have all DeWalt tools, partly because of preference but moistly because my first tools were DeWalt and I didn't want to have to worry about managing different batteries/chargers. Corded tools I don't really have a preference but most of my corded stuff is either DeWalt or Milwalkee.
4:40 - The "switch setter" thingies: I don't know about the US, but this looks quite familiar to my European eyes. Not from the railway, though, but from trams. Most modern tram systems over here have the driver set switches from within their cabin. The technology behind it can vary a lot, but the basic principle is a transponder in the tram sending a specific signal or code to a track side antenna which then sets the switch. Usually left, straight, right; some systems can be line code based instead, but that's rather uncommon for safety reasons. Historically switches might be set by the overhead line current: If you wanted to go straight, you had to accelerate in the corresponding section, if you wanted to take the turn, you had to roll. I guess it's obvious why that didn't linger terribly long once better solutions came up :D 4:55 - Don't know how heating systems are set up across the pond, but here you usually have a flat thermostat that regulates the condensing boiler so the heating water isn't getting heated unnecessarily if the temperature in the flat is at the target. Those "overheat protection" units look exactly like a bog standard version of such a flat thermostat. The "reduce/cut" switch at the bottom left would be the "day/night/timer" selector and the temperature scale would obviously be more around 10 to 30 degrees C than 80-120, but other than that it's identical. The slightly absurd sense of humour Altfuture show in such details really shows where they're coming from and resonates with my Polish roots. Lovely. 5:20 - Given the absurd train lenghts you run in the Americas, I'll guess distance trackers really are very standard over there? Here they're pretty fast getting increasingly common, but still very much not standard, rather a somewhat premium gadget. Fun fact, we often call them "Roadrunner", because the first (afaik) manufacturer to have those over here in Europe used the iconic "meep meep" sound of the famous cartoon character of that name. You hit the vigilance device twice and then the roadrunner sound (or just a double beep) plays once you've run a distance equal to the train length setting input into the ATP system. 6:20 - Do locomotives still despawn when they've been modified? Were I a player, I'd wish for those locos to be safe no matter where I leave them. 8:30 - House Bosch, but the blue line 🤣 16:00 - I started nitpicking here and went down a rabbit hole finally bringing me to a question: Wouldn't this be a derailment by American definitions? The German definition of a derailment is directly based on the UIC definition of what a derailed vehicle is includes running on two tracks. But while the AAR is an associated member of the UIC, it seems like no American entities are part of the GCU, which is the UIC-regulation that includes the aforementioned definition. So now I'm wondering if running on two tracks is considered a derailment or not on your side of the pond or not :D 20:40 - That mars light dance is reminiscent of the focus of an ADHD brain, isn't it? =P 25:30 - Yes, please, save your F key xD 27:35 - "What's a car lenght in metric?!" It depends (drink!). For me, a car length is 26.4 metres because that's the standard car length of passenger cars over here. Goods cars are generally shorter but obviously vary a lot. Open gondolas (I think that's the English term?) like in this case are commonly somewhere between 14 and 19 metres in length as far as I can see in a cursory glance over DB Cargo's vehicle catalogue. I've never worked in the cargo segment (or "windowless trains" as we in passenger rail jokingly call them; they apparently call us "glass trains" in return :D), but from what I remember they use the actual car length if the consist they're shunting is more or less uniform in that regard, while taking 20 m as a car length for mixed consists. 28:00 - 85 ft is 25.9 metres, so yeah. That'd actually feel quite familiar to me given the aforementioned 26.4 m in European passenger rail. That's a rare one 🤣 Though given how huge the locos and how high above the rail the cabs are over there, my visual judgement would fly right out the window anyways, I guess … 28:35 - 30 ft = 9.1 m, 40 ft = 12.2 m. Your head math is pretty much spot on despite the caffeine lack ;-) 33:10 - Sometimes plans just work out :D Fun episode, as usual!
Cheers my friend! I'm not sure if it counts as a derailment by our standards.... Nothing left the track. Lol! Distance counters are common on diesel power, and the switch setters you describe for trams sound exactly like the TWC stuff light rail over here has. Not surprising. And interesting on the car counts. :)
Relative/Absolute influences the indicator. It only really matters for the switches facing the opposite way from your device (Or your loco? Not sure about that). So if the switch is set to the [Right], one setting will show the Right indicator light up, as that's how the switch would be set up when you face it. The other setting will show the *Left* indicator lighting up, as that would be the direction you would go to when facing _The switching device._ It's basically personal preference, whether you feel less disoriented when the indicator shows the switch setting when facing the switch, or when it shows the switch setting when looking through the front windscreen.
Happy Thanksgiving Hyce. I feel thankful that you continue to provide us hilarious and informative entertainment pertaining to Rail operations, safety and more. Im also grateful that since early 2023 i got back into online gaming with old friends because of your RO playthrough. Since then we have played that, Railroader, and now Derail Valley with multiplayer. We patiently await Century Of Steam so we can enjoy even more railroading sim fun in the future. Keep doing what youre doing we appreciate it greatly
I'd love to see an episode where you try out the *maximum* steam startup time setting and see how much you can get done before it is finally ready to move.
There's a med slanted mount, that I think is perfect for the switch setter if it isn't mounted to a wall. It's also the only size that has a slanted variation. Absolute Mode shows how the swich looks if you're looking foward at all times, even if you're heading backwards. Relative mode shows how the switch looks if you're looking in the direction of travel. I also think absolute mode works off the engine while relative works from the end of train. You're so lucky you saw that when you did. I made that same mistake, and luckilly I caught it in time too. Orient: F Auto R I'd use auto unless you plan to never use it going backwards. Had lots of squirrelyness when I tried to use 2, 1 for the front, and another for when going backwards, this is counter intuitive as I learned when I went back to 1. I didn't notice it before because I used Auto. The side you interact with is it's 'Front.' So you pick which way it's 'front' faces. Forward, or to the Rear? I don't know if that's specifically how it's supposed to work, as there's currently no ingame documentation, but my observations. ie R mode works for going forwards, and F for backwards. Or maybe it's confused because mine isn't laying flat? I think Goods Factory has the flags.
I use 12v Dewalts for work (driving screws into IT racks is better without all the beans). 18 & 40V Ryobi for home use because of how infrequently they're used (except the 40v whisper blower, frequent use. Still hasn't died)
Most of my corded power tools are Milwaukee. When I decided to get back to battery tools, I ended up going with Ryobi, because they had a wide range of tools - from drills to weed whackers that all use the same batteries. I was NOT interested in ending up with 2 or 3 or more different batteries and chargers to deal with.
In Poland I usually use Parkside or MacAllister power tools. I think they have the best quality/price ratio. But I have some no-names, too, and they are useful as well 🙂
Happy Turkey Day to you Hyce! My family's a Ryobi family at the moment but I think we got a hodge-podge with some DeWalt things and I think one or two items from defunct hardware companies that have no discernable markings. Edit: Please please please make the game easier for yourself you survived 50 episodes of Career, you did pretty much everything pre-Build 99. So give your F key a break & also give yourself even some of that QOL that was added all the way back in Simulator, even if you don't use it often.
House Dewalt. Have had good luck with them. My brother dropped my dad's 14.4v drill in their fish pond and it still works. 15:31 Nailed it! Happy Thanksgiving all!
You should definitely be allowed to up the teleport f range. There's no increase in realism being able to teleport a little vs a lot, just an increase in tedium and rsi.
If you want to find the museum locomotives, look around the marked locations on the map. I’ve been through 3 saves, and have found them in said locations
Tool house wise, I’m split between DeWalt & Milwaukee. Harry Potter house wise, my family is eternally bound to Slytherin solely because of our last name: Riddle
Hyce should make it a goal to find and fully restore the S282 demonstrator locomotive so he can move his modifications to a locomotive that is truly his own (and not visibly clapped out like the rest of the DVRT rolling stock)
My uncle swears by Milwaukee At 576 they have Dewalt The model railroad club has Ryobi But personally? Im a hufflepuff because im a good finder.. All joking aisde though through my experiences all battery stuff is nice for like an hour until the battery starts to run down. Corded are better. I also like air tools when possible
House of Dewalt. I have a 12v Makita because that's all I could afford, but my grandfather, who is a carpenter, swears by DeWalt. Even gets stuff shipped in from the Dewalt factory service in London (the canadian one).
Absolutely increase the F range. You're doing operations with a steam locomotive that would normally have multiple people. Increasing the F range can compensate for that a bit.
Hey Hyce, spoiler if you want to catch the demonstrator engines on you own, but if not: I think I saw one poor little 0-6-0 behind the coaling tower, looking from the water tower, of the coal plant.
I want to suggest a dedicated playthrough using only the starter train and the demonstrator trains. Doesn't have to be high difficulty but would give a purpose to go hunting for the demonstrator trains.
Happy Thanksgiving Hyce! House Ryobi because it's what I had when I moved out and I didn't want to buy different batteries. My power tool shelf is a very specific shade of green! 😂
I really want to see some museum locomotive hunting. I've seen some thumbnails of someone with what I assume is the unique big steam engine, and I really want to see you get to use it.
House Makita, because the time i helped build a replica of a Railcar from a movie, the new Dewalt and Parkside Anglegrinders died within days of work, the already clapped out Makita Grinder survived the Torture that is removing rust from the Frame of an Railcar.
"Let's blindly shove backwards and see what happens!" He says as Smells like Kenosha picks up
Begins to multi-track drift.
Great Save Hyce!
Yes, he called it Shunting! HE HAS BEEN CONVERTED!!!!
Potato-Potato, shunting is only specific in the US if it's about signaling... I think.
🎶Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the rails!🎶
as an American, shunting is the #1 term that is way better than the US version.
25:26 I think increasing the F range is a must. It's not "realistic", but this is a game. It's a QOL feature to make up for not having a whole crew nor hours of time to get a job done.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Yeah, I agree there. more range would be fine.
+1 for the increased F-ing.
I would say up it a little, maybe twice as far. The short teleport incentivises using the dispatch license and gadgets
You're allowed to increase the F range but only if you also increase the steam startup time to compensate.
Useful thing to know: those little hook hangers can be used to hang lanterns. They don’t need tools to be put in and are removed with the hammer. They can be useful if you want to do something like hang a lantern on the side of a locomotive to see the oil cups or to mark where the water hatch is, or hang a lantern from the ceiling of the cab or inside the caboose. They can also be attached to cars if you want to mark a cut at night.
Aaaaahhhhhh... I gotta try that.
I like to use the caboose more as a mobile home at the moment. I put hooks on both sides of the Caboose next to both Doors so I could put a lantern outside the rear of my train since I don't put it at the end of train, I put it at the end of my locomotive or Museum train.
@@Pyrotrainthing also it is nice place to store your licenses, I even placed some on the wall with stickers
@@PyrotrainthingI do that too a bit. I hang them from the ceiling when I’m in there. It’s really quite cozy once it’s well-lit.
@@Pyrotrainthingwhere do you get a caboose?
"smoking a turkey at Leighton's house" sounds VERY euphemistic and I'm here for it
Yah Hyce, extending teleport distance is totally fine, your 'F" suffered enough trough those years
Also I bet much longer teleport for sure will give us other chances to laugh, like teleporting too far, missing running train and falling off bridge somehow ;)
I would LOVE to see you and Khan do a “Pimp My S282” where you have to build locos for each other and create the most gaudy, awkward, and so 2000’s locomotive but with each other in mind
So from my limited experience with the Switch Setter, it activates for the next switch in the line within the range set. if you set it in auto, it will choose front or rear based on your reverser setting. relative setting shows the switch as if you were physically facing towards it, where absolute shows the side of the train that the switch is lined to. (My preference is absolute, since the unit is anchored to the train and doesnt move.)
Ah! Thank you for the explanation... that helps quite a bit!
Cost aside, What's better? The switch setter or the dispatch license?
Why wouldn't you keep it on maximum range if it only ever activates the next switch?
@@icebolt0864Based on my opinion, the dispatcher license seems better for initial route planning due to the fact you can set the route beforehand within both the station map and route map, with the only switches not being toggle-able are the ones in the sidings/sections-of-track where the freight cars are stored.
I'm supposed to be on break not working. Also I'm house of 18v DeWalts. Unless I am taking care of outstanding debtors, then I am temporarily in the house of Milwaukee
those are... old lol
@whatusernameis5295 they are old but the outwork my newer 20v
I also have a whole bunch of 18v DeWalts, given to me a by a relative when they upgraded. But I also have some Ryobi, a Skil, and a Rigid, so make of that what you will.
All I use is m18 Milwaukee
Member of house ryobi here, I'm going to screenshot the part where the cars were doing the cha cha slide at 15:29 & send it to ppl when they ask me why after the update I still tend to throw switches manually. I like to see what's going on thank you very much
Hey! You can now pull trains with the chain loose! You gotta do a slinky train!!
Today we give thanks...that Hyce managed to prevent yet another derailment this time. A minor one by this railroad's standards, but still a serious pain to clean up.
Always glad to see your videos! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
I've been pulling so much multi track drifting in the recent update. Glad to see I'm not alone.
I bet someone will mod the Museum's sign to say "ES&D Survivors Museum", and if not, someone should.
This. 100% this. I'd even install that mod myself!
Well at that point just make it a custom text mod to name to add signs and have them say what you want.
In Canada, we use 50ft as our car lengths, since a lot of hoppers, tanks, and boxcars are still 50-60ft. 85 is an interesting one since bulkhead flats and centerbeams are usually 73-75ft, and intermodal are 95ft per platform. Autoracks are usually around 85 I suppose.
The Switch Setter: Orient(ation) selects which direction to look for switches - ahead, behind, or in the direction of travel. Mode: Abs(olute) means the left light means the switch is set to the path on the loco/cab's left side, Rel(ative) means it's on the left side according to the direction of travel, i.e. swaps the lights when you're going backwards.
Unsure as of yet, my house is "whatever is in the nearest toolbox"
I say go ahead and switch difficulties. Youre F key has suffered enough.
Btw you can change the "livery" with the coms radio. The new DVRT and demo on the S282 are both gorgeous
I'm sure someone else has already said this, but if not; those flag markers are sold at City West.
Thank you hyce’s mom for having a child that started to unite the world
33:13 I love the acronym for that… P.G.B.S. 😂
33:07 too satisfying. Can't like the video for a second time after kenosha but I will supplement with a tip of mine hat.
Happy Thanksgiving to you! Regarding tool choice, I'm a Dewalt guy, but the only power tool I interact with in a regular basis is one of their heat guns, so I don't have a large opinion. To answer your inquiry as to the F key distance, you could decide to play in full comfort mode and I wouldn't mind a bit. You are the only person whose say matters when it comes to how you want to play the game, we're just along for the ride.
House 18V DeWalt here, with about half of them being rescues from Pacific Steel Casting's pattern shop up in Berkeley when they closed. They look beat to crap and are spattered with silver and black paint and who-knows-what from living in a foundry, and they just keep ticking and I am very fond of them.
House Makita, formerly house Ryobi, but then I got adult money. Maybe not as powerful, but it comes with built-in theft deterrent blue, and will work forever.
Before watching this video, just got derail valley for myself and proceeded to déjà Vu, some cars. Then to watch hyce do the same thing. 😆. And happy thanksgiving to hyce and all my american neighbors.
House Makita, though my grandpa recently gave me a spare set of Flex. So House Flekita?
I'd say go for the farther F distance. Just makes getting around much faster, and less tortuous to your F key.
Thankful for you, Hyce/Mark, and your passion and joy that is infectious and entertaining at the same time. Thanks for the countless hours and effort you put into not just your content but also your community and the community of train nerds as a whole. Here's to many more years of mutual support, me monetarily and you... Erm. Commentarily? Lol 🍻
Proud Member of House Milwaukee!
The Milwaukee Road! 😂
I'm House Bosh)
House Ryobi here.
I got a drill. An impact drill. An oscillating tool. A reciprocating saw. A flashlight. A circular saw. A leaf blower(40v). A grass mower(40v). For now.
I will have to replace my old tools for ryobis: Edge trimmer, shop vac, chainsaw... And surely more!
Yes and we are thankful for the entertainment and knowledge being shared ❤ keep doing what you do best hyce
On soldering, as a former electric the Navy we had a saying: The bigger the glob, the better the job!
And House DeWalt for the win.
As someone who grew up in the UK, “it did throw a switch, I’ll give it the points” made me smile 😂
The switch setter is super useful on longer trips and also saved me when going through stations, it makes it way simpler than always pulling out the radio thingy
Might be interesting to have a race with kAN with DE2s and slightly too much train behind you, but kAN gets all the gadgets to help him
33:00 weird laugh fully deserved!
33:58 Your demonstrator variant of S060 is in the bush behind the coal tower
Hey Hyce, the next video should be hauling with the DMU. That totally won't go terribly wrong, it's not like it isn't rated for hauling or shunting at all.
Smoking a Turkey?, is it a joint?, has it been hunted? Is Hyce doing a drive by while yelling "Colorado Steamers!" With a gat and shooting it?
The length of cars used for calculation of the usable track and platform length is 25 m, at least in Poland. The EU Technical Specification of Interoperability assumes the longest train of 1050 m, which is 40 cars + 2 locos. The standard for structure gauge (EN 15273-3) assumes the max. bogie pivots distance of 20 m and almost 6 m further to the buffers. The post-Soviet standard for structure gauge (ГОСТ 9238) assumes the pivots distance of 17 m and the total length of 24 m. The value of 25 m nicely fits four times into a hectometer which is marked with stones or plates along the line. That's the perspective of a civil engineer 👷🏼
Coal-wagons certainly enjoying the new gadgets! 😂😂
The steamers benefit from the digital speedo. It really helps to know how fast you're going when the gauge is maxed out...
8:25 Proud member of the house of whatever the heck is closest!
House Ryobi (beats harbor fright nonsense) and by all means give the poor F key a rest. Can't believe you saved that one - can we call it a Splinch? tehee. thanks for the fun! :)
I have all DeWalt tools, partly because of preference but moistly because my first tools were DeWalt and I didn't want to have to worry about managing different batteries/chargers. Corded tools I don't really have a preference but most of my corded stuff is either DeWalt or Milwalkee.
8:33 Black & Decker/Older Craftsman
Older Craftsman stuff is really good! I have a Craftsman hammer from the ‘60s!
"Big train go shunt with techie gadgets, while blue bird guy talks about trains" Here, summrized the episode for ya!
4:40 - The "switch setter" thingies: I don't know about the US, but this looks quite familiar to my European eyes. Not from the railway, though, but from trams. Most modern tram systems over here have the driver set switches from within their cabin. The technology behind it can vary a lot, but the basic principle is a transponder in the tram sending a specific signal or code to a track side antenna which then sets the switch. Usually left, straight, right; some systems can be line code based instead, but that's rather uncommon for safety reasons. Historically switches might be set by the overhead line current: If you wanted to go straight, you had to accelerate in the corresponding section, if you wanted to take the turn, you had to roll. I guess it's obvious why that didn't linger terribly long once better solutions came up :D
4:55 - Don't know how heating systems are set up across the pond, but here you usually have a flat thermostat that regulates the condensing boiler so the heating water isn't getting heated unnecessarily if the temperature in the flat is at the target. Those "overheat protection" units look exactly like a bog standard version of such a flat thermostat. The "reduce/cut" switch at the bottom left would be the "day/night/timer" selector and the temperature scale would obviously be more around 10 to 30 degrees C than 80-120, but other than that it's identical. The slightly absurd sense of humour Altfuture show in such details really shows where they're coming from and resonates with my Polish roots. Lovely.
5:20 - Given the absurd train lenghts you run in the Americas, I'll guess distance trackers really are very standard over there? Here they're pretty fast getting increasingly common, but still very much not standard, rather a somewhat premium gadget. Fun fact, we often call them "Roadrunner", because the first (afaik) manufacturer to have those over here in Europe used the iconic "meep meep" sound of the famous cartoon character of that name. You hit the vigilance device twice and then the roadrunner sound (or just a double beep) plays once you've run a distance equal to the train length setting input into the ATP system.
6:20 - Do locomotives still despawn when they've been modified? Were I a player, I'd wish for those locos to be safe no matter where I leave them.
8:30 - House Bosch, but the blue line 🤣
16:00 - I started nitpicking here and went down a rabbit hole finally bringing me to a question: Wouldn't this be a derailment by American definitions? The German definition of a derailment is directly based on the UIC definition of what a derailed vehicle is includes running on two tracks. But while the AAR is an associated member of the UIC, it seems like no American entities are part of the GCU, which is the UIC-regulation that includes the aforementioned definition. So now I'm wondering if running on two tracks is considered a derailment or not on your side of the pond or not :D
20:40 - That mars light dance is reminiscent of the focus of an ADHD brain, isn't it? =P
25:30 - Yes, please, save your F key xD
27:35 - "What's a car lenght in metric?!" It depends (drink!). For me, a car length is 26.4 metres because that's the standard car length of passenger cars over here. Goods cars are generally shorter but obviously vary a lot. Open gondolas (I think that's the English term?) like in this case are commonly somewhere between 14 and 19 metres in length as far as I can see in a cursory glance over DB Cargo's vehicle catalogue. I've never worked in the cargo segment (or "windowless trains" as we in passenger rail jokingly call them; they apparently call us "glass trains" in return :D), but from what I remember they use the actual car length if the consist they're shunting is more or less uniform in that regard, while taking 20 m as a car length for mixed consists.
28:00 - 85 ft is 25.9 metres, so yeah. That'd actually feel quite familiar to me given the aforementioned 26.4 m in European passenger rail. That's a rare one 🤣 Though given how huge the locos and how high above the rail the cabs are over there, my visual judgement would fly right out the window anyways, I guess …
28:35 - 30 ft = 9.1 m, 40 ft = 12.2 m. Your head math is pretty much spot on despite the caffeine lack ;-)
33:10 - Sometimes plans just work out :D
Fun episode, as usual!
Cheers my friend! I'm not sure if it counts as a derailment by our standards.... Nothing left the track. Lol! Distance counters are common on diesel power, and the switch setters you describe for trams sound exactly like the TWC stuff light rail over here has. Not surprising. And interesting on the car counts. :)
Relative/Absolute influences the indicator.
It only really matters for the switches facing the opposite way from your device (Or your loco? Not sure about that).
So if the switch is set to the [Right], one setting will show the Right indicator light up, as that's how the switch would be set up when you face it. The other setting will show the *Left* indicator lighting up, as that would be the direction you would go to when facing _The switching device._
It's basically personal preference, whether you feel less disoriented when the indicator shows the switch setting when facing the switch, or when it shows the switch setting when looking through the front windscreen.
THE BEST THING TO WATCH ON THANKSGIVING
Happy Thanksgiving Hyce!
Same to you my friend!
Happy Thanksgiving Hyce. I feel thankful that you continue to provide us hilarious and informative entertainment pertaining to Rail operations, safety and more. Im also grateful that since early 2023 i got back into online gaming with old friends because of your RO playthrough. Since then we have played that, Railroader, and now Derail Valley with multiplayer. We patiently await Century Of Steam so we can enjoy even more railroading sim fun in the future. Keep doing what youre doing we appreciate it greatly
I'd love to see an episode where you try out the *maximum* steam startup time setting and see how much you can get done before it is finally ready to move.
There's a med slanted mount, that I think is perfect for the switch setter if it isn't mounted to a wall. It's also the only size that has a slanted variation.
Absolute Mode shows how the swich looks if you're looking foward at all times, even if you're heading backwards. Relative mode shows how the switch looks if you're looking in the direction of travel. I also think absolute mode works off the engine while relative works from the end of train.
You're so lucky you saw that when you did. I made that same mistake, and luckilly I caught it in time too.
Orient: F Auto R
I'd use auto unless you plan to never use it going backwards. Had lots of squirrelyness when I tried to use 2, 1 for the front, and another for when going backwards, this is counter intuitive as I learned when I went back to 1. I didn't notice it before because I used Auto. The side you interact with is it's 'Front.' So you pick which way it's 'front' faces. Forward, or to the Rear?
I don't know if that's specifically how it's supposed to work, as there's currently no ingame documentation, but my observations. ie R mode works for going forwards, and F for backwards.
Or maybe it's confused because mine isn't laying flat?
I think Goods Factory has the flags.
Thanks for excellent content! House of : working tool? Great! Getting it done! also, electrical cords are so underrated.
I use 12v Dewalts for work (driving screws into IT racks is better without all the beans). 18 & 40V Ryobi for home use because of how infrequently they're used (except the 40v whisper blower, frequent use. Still hasn't died)
I had Dewalt for years and recently switched to Milwaukee and I'm super happy with it.
Hey hyce I found a live steam version of 491 while scrolling on marketplace while watching this video, I think the museum should get It.
Most of my corded power tools are Milwaukee. When I decided to get back to battery tools, I ended up going with Ryobi, because they had a wide range of tools - from drills to weed whackers that all use the same batteries. I was NOT interested in ending up with 2 or 3 or more different batteries and chargers to deal with.
In Poland I usually use Parkside or MacAllister power tools. I think they have the best quality/price ratio. But I have some no-names, too, and they are useful as well 🙂
Happy Turkey Day to you Hyce! My family's a Ryobi family at the moment but I think we got a hodge-podge with some DeWalt things and I think one or two items from defunct hardware companies that have no discernable markings.
Edit: Please please please make the game easier for yourself you survived 50 episodes of Career, you did pretty much everything pre-Build 99. So give your F key a break & also give yourself even some of that QOL that was added all the way back in Simulator, even if you don't use it often.
House Ryobi here! My buddy said dewalt is more reliable, but for the cost and my use cases, Ryobi works just fine!
happy thanksgiving to you, brother!
I think the F-distance is fine to increase, not like "real" humans can teleport 3 feet any easier than 15 anyways XD
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mistakes were made but he is a fast learner and aced it in the end lol happy thanksgiving
Who needs a time bonus when you have fun shunting.
Not me looking up derail valley videos all morning only for this one to get posted while I was looking
House Dewalt. Have had good luck with them. My brother dropped my dad's 14.4v drill in their fish pond and it still works.
15:31 Nailed it!
Happy Thanksgiving all!
As of right now im House Bosch of the early 2010s vintage.
Got them second hand after a relative switched to the Milwaukee lithium tools.
You should definitely be allowed to up the teleport f range. There's no increase in realism being able to teleport a little vs a lot, just an increase in tedium and rsi.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING SILLY BIRB MAN
If you want to find the museum locomotives, look around the marked locations on the map. I’ve been through 3 saves, and have found them in said locations
Hahaha, greetings from the ES&DB ❤👍
House DeWalt. Nothing beats needing a full 15amp circuit all to yourself just to run your 9" angle grinder with its 1.5hp motor.
Tool house wise, I’m split between DeWalt & Milwaukee. Harry Potter house wise, my family is eternally bound to Slytherin solely because of our last name: Riddle
Hyce should make it a goal to find and fully restore the S282 demonstrator locomotive so he can move his modifications to a locomotive that is truly his own (and not visibly clapped out like the rest of the DVRT rolling stock)
Interesting British accent speaking, I find it really fascinating hearing people attempt the British accent.
If the multiplayer is working I want to see the both of you run the same train. Fireman would be not the engineer but only when running over the road.
My uncle swears by Milwaukee
At 576 they have Dewalt
The model railroad club has Ryobi
But personally? Im a hufflepuff because im a good finder..
All joking aisde though through my experiences all battery stuff is nice for like an hour until the battery starts to run down. Corded are better. I also like air tools when possible
Your 'F' key has suffered enough, as has your finger... Embiggen the teleport range for the 'F' key.
Watching this a day early as a member, and it's so uncanny yo hear you say happy Thanksgiving
"whats a car length"
for derail valley, look at the car and read what the sign on the side of the car says
House of Dewalt. I have a 12v Makita because that's all I could afford, but my grandfather, who is a carpenter, swears by DeWalt. Even gets stuff shipped in from the Dewalt factory service in London (the canadian one).
Absolutely increase the F range. You're doing operations with a steam locomotive that would normally have multiple people. Increasing the F range can compensate for that a bit.
Happy Thanksgiving from house Dewalt/Ryobi! Absolutely increase the f jump distance
Milwaukee is the missing one. But De-Walt Represent!
House of Milwauke
I have add lights to my restore museum DH4, but the LED lights are really bright and the blue ones are giving the train underglow.
Hey Hyce, spoiler if you want to catch the demonstrator engines on you own, but if not:
I think I saw one poor little 0-6-0 behind the coaling tower, looking from the water tower, of the coal plant.
I want to suggest a dedicated playthrough using only the starter train and the demonstrator trains.
Doesn't have to be high difficulty but would give a purpose to go hunting for the demonstrator trains.
Happy Thanksgiving Hyce! House Ryobi because it's what I had when I moved out and I didn't want to buy different batteries. My power tool shelf is a very specific shade of green! 😂
You buy the flags at City West
Thank you!
Is it randomized? I got them at HB on my save
House of Ryobi because what's better than your power tools doubling as hammers and being virtually indestructible?
I really want to see some museum locomotive hunting. I've seen some thumbnails of someone with what I assume is the unique big steam engine, and I really want to see you get to use it.
Dewalt is what I've been using for a long time. Still have a working set of 18V tooling and a newer 20v set.
I think the cars in DV are all slightly different in length. Those 9 hoppers were 168m, so 1 hopper is ~ 18.5m long.
Out of House DeWalt, House Makita, House Ryobi, and House Milwaukee, I an proud to be a member of House DeWalt, just like my father
You should defo up the f key range. I did immediately, such freedom!
House Makita, because the time i helped build a replica of a Railcar from a movie, the new Dewalt and Parkside Anglegrinders died within days of work, the already clapped out Makita Grinder survived the Torture that is removing rust from the Frame of an Railcar.