For all of you that are really into this stuff. I encourage you to go to your local steam thresher show and learn how to get an actual steamer license and volunteer to run the steam engines to keep history alive. I volunteer on the tractor side of things at a couple shows. And the sad thing is the generation that knows how to run them is dying off and the new generation isn't learning how to run this stuff. It all seems straightforward but everything has little quirks depending on manufacturer. Or just the type and style. And that's the kind of stuff you need to know and learn when you want to run this kind of stuff. Don't get me wrong these games are awesome and very realistic. However nothing beats getting behind the throttle of an old steam engine with a six bottom plow and just feeling that power
I've even realized after re-watching that, you can see the engineer in 484 doing the "open close" throttle technique I was talking about doing in 491. The K-36's are set up pretty similar so not surprising he had to do the same. Very cool! Link to the vid is in the description, folks :)
Last time I ran the steam loco, someone forgot to flip a switch and I ran into a full side lane. 5 totalled stock, but no damage to loco. Was going 50, braked to 30 before impact.
Speed limit sign spacing is the worst in DV. First they tell you to gun it, and not even a 100m later they tell you to slam the brakes and pray you don't go flying...
Mark you're always complaining about the steam train's whistle going off randomly. She just talks to herself sometimes! Perfectly natural. Let her speak.
Makes me happy to see you mention you plan to get the cutoff mod. For reference, using the cutoff mod I took a 1200t train out of the coal mine and up the hill at a solid 50 km/h the whole way up, with power to spare.
Speaking of Tennessee Pass, I was born in Salida, CO right next to the old yard there and very close to what's left of Monarch Pass. I spoke to my Uncle Stan who is a local historian for the area, and he said they keep the tracks clear and in "operable" condition. the reason is, it's the only way they would ever be able to evacuate the area in the event they had to do so. when it snows, Highway 50 is literally just shut down because there's just no plowing it. So that's why the tracks, signals and everything are still there and in decent shape. It leaves plenty of opportunities for potential operators though, as they're not going anywhere. That much is certain.
This is honestly the exact reason I've found in DV, it's always worth carrying a shunter with you... or 2. They're super useful on the steeper grades north of the map, and super easy to keep a handle on if you have the remote. Plus, they just speed up shunting time come arrival!
This was really fun to watch. These videos are entertaining and relaxing to listen to at work. Please keep making content like this. Thanks for building an engaging community, mate!
A fun video to watch would be a revisit and post-mortem of American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley. Contrast it to Railroads Online and see how they compare! :D
Amazing Video Recommendation! The Steamer in DV sounds a little lame by comparison.... hahha I wish they had Multiplayer in the works.. it would make this game great!
One time I did an almost 2k ton haul out of the harbor with 2 steamers, I must say that was the most stressful run I ever did, luckily both were on the head end so I could have some amount of time to stick my head out the window to see what was happening but other than that it was full blower, full damper all the way out at a solid 20 kmh, I think I'll go into the DV discord and scroll way up to find the screenshot I took but it felt a lot like what you did here my advice for doing coal drags in DV: get the biggest run up you can, use the blower to get your fire temp up while your at a stand-still, then roll the cut-off back a notch for ever 10 kmh you accelerate (once you hit 40 you can usually place the cut-off at about 1/4 of a notch, your pressure will drop like a sack of rocks but you can usually get up to over 60 with 800 tons before you're off the bridge) and then use sand to keep traction, then start notching forward as your speed decreases, but don't even think about using full forward on the hill then let your temp drop once you crest the grade and it's mostly braking from then on
I didn’t know about that Yellowstone wreck! I make regular trips to Duluth and almost always see 2/3 remaining ones! (The third can’t quite be seen from the highway.)
Even though that initial hill is a bit of a pain, the coal mine run is one of my favorite routes. Wish more deliveries or logistics needed to go to coal mine.
What can’t this man do! He drives locomotives irl, he drives locomotives in game, he makes a game that allows others to drive locomotives and on top of that makes his own damn music to drive em to!
I've Min Max'd this at 1050T with one Steam loco, but it is right on the limit, like max fire temp, full reg and reverser all the way forward at the top of the hill, moving at about 20-25. Like just made it in every aspect. Edit: peaked at 45 before the steep grade.
There is a mod available for the steam engine that fixes a number of issues with it, Realistic Steamer Overhaul on nexus. You can also customize the efficiency of the coal, and other things like starting pressure so you don't have to wait half an hour+ for the boiler to come up to pressure. Hopefully the upcoming sim overhaul will fix the issues and give the steam engines their proper tractive effort (steam vs diesel is backwards, steam power is less efficient but with generally greater tractive effort, diesel is lower maintenance and much greater energy efficiency). The current version of the steam is very wrong indeed, the tractive power is way off for an engine of that size, the reverser is pretty much broken, as you use the same amount of steam regardless of the setting. Even the damper doesn't work. I dearly wish they would move the fire door handle to the other side of the loco too as it covers over the main brake when open. I also often use the remote to control a diesel on the rear to help with braking, give some slack, and give an extra push when needed.
Used to work on the Black Hills Central in South Dakota. Right out of departure from Hill City we had to deal with a 4% grade. lets just say a few times we had to back up and give er another run (once or twice due to a handbrake not full released or slick rails and lost the momentum to wheelslip).
I don't know if you remember the original PC game Hard Truck circa 1998...but the music in this video reminds me of that in the best possible way! 12/10! Nice!
Took a 2500T train out of the Harbor, she was barking hard at 1mph up that hill but she made it.....just didn't have enough coal to making the rest of the way to the steel plant (my first stop) 😅
In Holland most steamtrams where designed so the engineer could do the driving and the fireing. After seeing this, it's a miracle some examples still exist/run and haven't been turned into artistic bananas or had to replace their fusable plug daily 😂(i hope it's the right translation for the plug in the crownplate that melts at low water levels).
They run two mile long freight trains here where I live in Kentucky big diesel powered engines 2 or 3 headers and you can stand beside the tracks and hear train lag about 200 ft of train will pass you and then the cars behind that 200 ft will slam into the front cars make this huge booming ruckus and then just keep on going it's so cool to listen to them
I have pointed out those trees that stick through the tracks and bridges, just as well as all the texture glitches, to the game devs.... apparently it's in the works (wouldn't bet on it since I haven't seen any new/recent updates)
@@Hyce777 not gonna lie had a blast last night on stream with my buddy Peek we push, pulled 5 empty hoppers, 2 steel rails, and 13 wooden beams to Coal mine using 2 class 70s! Went relatively smooth considering this is the longest train we've run yet! In Rialroads Online
Hyce, I know this is an older video to be commenting on but love your content. Playing this games made my heart so happy as a train nerd. (I know nothing about them I just love them) I was wondering what the little lever on the left side of the engine does? There’s a lever with a button that doesn’t seem to do anything in game Is that a real world thing that does something?
That locomotive really likes to talk to you and sometimes I'd like to talk back to you you should do something about that. All I got to say is keep your pimp hand strong. LOL
You need another person to be fireman? When you said this is the first time driving a big boy, I thought this would be ok, when you decided to fire a big boy, I thought that was a ballsie call. I would like to see part two of you driving a big boy successfully.
So what I found to be helpful is have little shunter diesel in front so it does not overheat to quickly does help so you not having to use two steamers
I don't know how into TS2022 you are but there is a DLC, it's the Clear Creek Narrow Guage add-on that takes place on the Colorado Central on the Georgetown Loop in the Rockies in the 1930's and there's a separate addon for 1890's rolling stock and locomotives for that route. I think it would be fun to watch and fun for you to play.
Ive stalled at this exact spot so many times…. The cutoff wheel is so poorly explained that i have no idea what it does- i basically run the steam loco one notch from the top and leave it there, basically just functions as a reverser. Now I know i was doing it wrong, but the game is wrong too.
I can only imagine you pushing the throttle back and forth kind of like how the polar express try to slow down the train while going down like a 90-degree downhill a train on the cotter pin disconnected from the breaks and break the ice
Probably could have made the grade had the water level been maintained. Because that’s when you lost all your pressure and momentum. Second the small reductions for the automatic watching your grades staying out of power when it’s not needed and doing reductions in 8-10lbs or one click in game few seconds to set no gauge at rear to watch but give time for length then check speed and adjust accordingly
I've had some one try to explain to me before that steam engines are better at maintaining tonnage then Diesels, but Diesels are way better at starting tonnage. "A steam engine can run a train it can't start, but a Diesel can start a train it has no business of running" Is that due to the smaller wheels, or the instantaneous torque of the electric motors?
That is the old story! For diesel: you get all kinds of torque and power at low speed, but you can't keep that up at higher speeds. For steam: the engine is literally directly coupled to the wheels - 1:1 gearing - in order to actually utilize the force of both cylinders you have to be going at a decent speed, else you can get "centered up" where only one cylinder is providing power.
Question for railroads online are there plans to be able to make the foundation banked for corners? Or is banked turns not realistic for narrow Guage or for the time period?
I may be wrong, but i think the knob for the blower is supposed to be connected as a control valve for steam to go to a blower to control the blower and not regulating the actual air going through it. basically like the control knob for the heater fan in a car. it controls the fan not the airflow.
The blower is literally just a valve that takes steam at boiler pressure and sends it out a pipe that then exhausts out the stack, causing a draft. There is no fan. Some blowers are fancy and called "ring blowers" that even out the flow, but, most I've run into just had a pipe that just ends pointing up the stack to one side.
@@Hyce777 I meant in the game, not IRL. The way the pipes are set up it looks like they modeled it as a control valve for a blower motor. But like i said i may be wrong.
Cheers mate! I do love that song. I don't think it's 100% thematically appropriate for the RO! Soundtrack but I do want to do a final version of it some day
Can anyone confirm that empty sight glass = no water in the boiler? That's not how the real thing works... lol If that's the way the game works, that would explain a lot of it....
did you open the Turbo valve by pushing the handle down meaning did you open the vant on bottom of the steam engine cab floor under fire box you need that open first
@@Hyce777 ok just checking but also I was told you need to backup all the way and on to the other hill and you should roll back the Boston bar or reverser before you hit the hill I know some one that did that hill with 1,200 tons if you try that you should make it also you should have water cracked open not at full but half way open you want to hit 60 high ball in yard to make it out with 1,200 tons that’s the really max weight you can pull at correct speed you slip u done try hitting 60 before u hit hill or close to it
Hey Hyce, enjoy your content but it would be great if you include the game or format in the title like you did for the last videos. Always nice when you know what you’re about to watch. I mean I would have watched it regardless but still.
Is it just a British loco thing but when he was saying about the power reverse valve do you not just have a forward reverse leave you can through from forward to reverse. Old British steam locos have that so you can go from going forward to pretty much instantly going in reverse
@@Hyce777 sorry it might just be me i realise now that like in the porter in railroads online the reverse leaver is just common in all britsh locos. like the air powered power reverser or whatever is just a new consept to me as from the british locos i know its all mechanical.
Don’t worry about it I’ve looked it up and it’s fine. Just never heard of it and thought someone could elaborate. Don’t worry I’m just being a bit dim witted that’s all.
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For all of you that are really into this stuff. I encourage you to go to your local steam thresher show and learn how to get an actual steamer license and volunteer to run the steam engines to keep history alive. I volunteer on the tractor side of things at a couple shows. And the sad thing is the generation that knows how to run them is dying off and the new generation isn't learning how to run this stuff. It all seems straightforward but everything has little quirks depending on manufacturer. Or just the type and style. And that's the kind of stuff you need to know and learn when you want to run this kind of stuff. Don't get me wrong these games are awesome and very realistic. However nothing beats getting behind the throttle of an old steam engine with a six bottom plow and just feeling that power
Dont think we got those in my country, rip
Unfortunately none around me
Oh I’m behind you 100% I am a member of Scott carver threshers and I manually stoke a 100 boiler horsepower from 1926.
You can get mods to make the steam engine realist I have them and I love them fixes all the problems the developers missed
That's the plan!
Longer train to the hodr
That cumbres pass video is incredible!
I've even realized after re-watching that, you can see the engineer in 484 doing the "open close" throttle technique I was talking about doing in 491. The K-36's are set up pretty similar so not surprising he had to do the same. Very cool!
Link to the vid is in the description, folks :)
@@Hyce777 Are there plans to possible add a K36 in Railroads?
@@vincentmarfe445 that is the plan! Check the tech tree video on my channel ;)
Last time I ran the steam loco, someone forgot to flip a switch and I ran into a full side lane. 5 totalled stock, but no damage to loco. Was going 50, braked to 30 before impact.
Ouch! I hate when someone does that to me too. Been there done that :P
You Casey Jones'd it
@@cadetkohr5508 Beat me to it!
Speed limit sign spacing is the worst in DV.
First they tell you to gun it, and not even a 100m later they tell you to slam the brakes and pray you don't go flying...
Mark you're always complaining about the steam train's whistle going off randomly. She just talks to herself sometimes! Perfectly natural. Let her speak.
Lol! Fair.
Is that a feature or does it got a mind of its own?
@@laurentiu.panait2536 Mind of it's own, the rope is physics-based not just triggered by clicking the rope, so if you bump it, the whistle chirps
Amazing, double headers are always good! (even if everything goes south)
I love the run out of Coal Mine in DV. My second favorite, right next to the Iron Mine 1500 ton runs.
Makes me happy to see you mention you plan to get the cutoff mod. For reference, using the cutoff mod I took a 1200t train out of the coal mine and up the hill at a solid 50 km/h the whole way up, with power to spare.
It's not very often you see a gaming channel with such amazing original music.
Cheers! I mean, I started off in the music side of things so one would hope it's good :P
@@Hyce777 you've got a talent for it
Galaxy Quest is a timeless classic and absolute perfection.
100%.
Speaking of Tennessee Pass, I was born in Salida, CO right next to the old yard there and very close to what's left of Monarch Pass. I spoke to my Uncle Stan who is a local historian for the area, and he said they keep the tracks clear and in "operable" condition. the reason is, it's the only way they would ever be able to evacuate the area in the event they had to do so. when it snows, Highway 50 is literally just shut down because there's just no plowing it. So that's why the tracks, signals and everything are still there and in decent shape. It leaves plenty of opportunities for potential operators though, as they're not going anywhere. That much is certain.
You, Kan, and Dapper have revived a passion for trains I forgot I had🤝
This is honestly the exact reason I've found in DV, it's always worth carrying a shunter with you... or 2. They're super useful on the steeper grades north of the map, and super easy to keep a handle on if you have the remote. Plus, they just speed up shunting time come arrival!
Informative and entertaining. Liked the music. Checked the push pull thing you linked. That was cool awesome. I would love to ride on that train.
This was really fun to watch. These videos are entertaining and relaxing to listen to at work. Please keep making content like this. Thanks for building an engaging community, mate!
You've convinced me to buy this and give it a go, looks like good fun. :D
Thanks for mentioning my city's yellowstones, the massive giants operated in my city, and one is in the LSRM! We are the D part in there! Duluth!
I got a DE6 stuck on that hill trying to pull the same load. I had the HUD on. There is a section with a 3.8% gradient that isn't posted.
"And they Binned it, with a Yellowstone"
A *LEASED* Yellowstone to boot. OOF.
A fun video to watch would be a revisit and post-mortem of American Railroads: Summit River & Pine Valley.
Contrast it to Railroads Online and see how they compare! :D
Amazing Video Recommendation! The Steamer in DV sounds a little lame by comparison.... hahha I wish they had Multiplayer in the works.. it would make this game great!
One time I did an almost 2k ton haul out of the harbor with 2 steamers, I must say that was the most stressful run I ever did, luckily both were on the head end so I could have some amount of time to stick my head out the window to see what was happening but other than that it was full blower, full damper all the way out at a solid 20 kmh, I think I'll go into the DV discord and scroll way up to find the screenshot I took but it felt a lot like what you did here
my advice for doing coal drags in DV: get the biggest run up you can, use the blower to get your fire temp up while your at a stand-still, then roll the cut-off back a notch for ever 10 kmh you accelerate (once you hit 40 you can usually place the cut-off at about 1/4 of a notch, your pressure will drop like a sack of rocks but you can usually get up to over 60 with 800 tons before you're off the bridge) and then use sand to keep traction, then start notching forward as your speed decreases, but don't even think about using full forward on the hill then let your temp drop once you crest the grade and it's mostly braking from then on
Cheers for the tips!
Thank you for explaining how the Johnson bar works. I was trying to figure out how the heck it worked for the longest time. 😂
I didn’t know about that Yellowstone wreck! I make regular trips to Duluth and almost always see 2/3 remaining ones! (The third can’t quite be seen from the highway.)
It's funny you mention the push pull video because it was in my recommendations while watching this.
The algorithm listed to me sending viewers from this video to that one :D
Even though that initial hill is a bit of a pain, the coal mine run is one of my favorite routes. Wish more deliveries or logistics needed to go to coal mine.
What can’t this man do! He drives locomotives irl, he drives locomotives in game, he makes a game that allows others to drive locomotives and on top of that makes his own damn music to drive em to!
I've Min Max'd this at 1050T with one Steam loco, but it is right on the limit, like max fire temp, full reg and reverser all the way forward at the top of the hill, moving at about 20-25. Like just made it in every aspect.
Edit: peaked at 45 before the steep grade.
Very similar to what I did, but you had just that extra bit of speed. Nice.
There is a mod available for the steam engine that fixes a number of issues with it, Realistic Steamer Overhaul on nexus. You can also customize the efficiency of the coal, and other things like starting pressure so you don't have to wait half an hour+ for the boiler to come up to pressure. Hopefully the upcoming sim overhaul will fix the issues and give the steam engines their proper tractive effort (steam vs diesel is backwards, steam power is less efficient but with generally greater tractive effort, diesel is lower maintenance and much greater energy efficiency).
The current version of the steam is very wrong indeed, the tractive power is way off for an engine of that size, the reverser is pretty much broken, as you use the same amount of steam regardless of the setting. Even the damper doesn't work. I dearly wish they would move the fire door handle to the other side of the loco too as it covers over the main brake when open.
I also often use the remote to control a diesel on the rear to help with braking, give some slack, and give an extra push when needed.
i swear that train is the sassiest steam train talking back at you all the time xD
I’m late to the party, and didn’t finish the video, yet… but, classic film reference… Galaxy Quest!
14:10 Hyce, water. Hyce, water... HYCE, WATERRRRR! 🤣 you stress me out
Lol!
Used to work on the Black Hills Central in South Dakota. Right out of departure from Hill City we had to deal with a 4% grade. lets just say a few times we had to back up and give er another run (once or twice due to a handbrake not full released or slick rails and lost the momentum to wheelslip).
Hit it with speed! Hah. I imagine that'd be a bummer.
Love your videos my favorite ones are when you say all the things that are wrong with train games
I don't know if you remember the original PC game Hard Truck circa 1998...but the music in this video reminds me of that in the best possible way! 12/10! Nice!
Never played it. Apparently I had similar inspirations though!
I wish I could go back to the days when Derail Valley would generate 800+ ton coal trains whenever I wanted to do a coal run
It still does, sometimes
That hill at the start reminded me about the story of the 4501. It used to pull loads of coal on a short line if I remember right
Took a 2500T train out of the Harbor, she was barking hard at 1mph up that hill but she made it.....just didn't have enough coal to making the rest of the way to the steel plant (my first stop) 😅
Yowza! That sounds about right.
The steam locomotive in this games sounds like a Powerstroke with rod knock
In Holland most steamtrams where designed so the engineer could do the driving and the fireing. After seeing this, it's a miracle some examples still exist/run and haven't been turned into artistic bananas or had to replace their fusable plug daily 😂(i hope it's the right translation for the plug in the crownplate that melts at low water levels).
I think it's spelled fusible, but yes, that's the thing!
I love watching you play this game
15:15 best joke was melt the crownsheet nice and efficiant
hey hyce don't worry about DV's sketchy physics they will all be overhauled in a couple of months time when the simulator update is released.
I know, that's why I started playing beforehand. Show the "before".
lets give a moment to realize the talent behind the hyce's music
"This is the problem!" he says looking at the steam gauge while the water glass is stone dry....umm Hyce I think you forgot to add water...
Lol! Yeah, I'm going to have to re try it. Apparently the water glass being empty means the boiler is empty which is... Absolutely not true.
It wasn't until you sounded the whistle that i realised this was Derail Valley.
Thought it was Railroads Online at first. :P
They run two mile long freight trains here where I live in Kentucky big diesel powered engines 2 or 3 headers and you can stand beside the tracks and hear train lag about 200 ft of train will pass you and then the cars behind that 200 ft will slam into the front cars make this huge booming ruckus and then just keep on going it's so cool to listen to them
The shrub blown the whistle? Wow
Whoop! Good luck not exploding things this time… 😂
I have pointed out those trees that stick through the tracks and bridges, just as well as all the texture glitches, to the game devs.... apparently it's in the works (wouldn't bet on it since I haven't seen any new/recent updates)
37:25 *History in the dark wants to know your location*
Nice to see that you have coal today.
Galaxy quest quote! Noice!
They're miners, not minors!
@@Hyce777 "you lost me"
@@Hyce777 not gonna lie had a blast last night on stream with my buddy Peek we push, pulled 5 empty hoppers, 2 steel rails, and 13 wooden beams to Coal mine using 2 class 70s!
Went relatively smooth considering this is the longest train we've run yet! In Rialroads Online
"We can melt the crownsheet very efficiently"
Liked your background music! How about "Ain't No Brakeman On This Train?"
Hyce, I know this is an older video to be commenting on but love your content. Playing this games made my heart so happy as a train nerd. (I know nothing about them I just love them)
I was wondering what the little lever on the left side of the engine does?
There’s a lever with a button that doesn’t seem to do anything in game
Is that a real world thing that does something?
That locomotive really likes to talk to you and sometimes I'd like to talk back to you you should do something about that. All I got to say is keep your pimp hand strong. LOL
What a pretty lake wouldn’t it be nice if a steam engine was in it I can only hear history in the dark losing it over that one 😂
You might want to look at the route manager mod, so you dont have to worry about switches being set
Good idea!
You need another person to be fireman? When you said this is the first time driving a big boy, I thought this would be ok, when you decided to fire a big boy, I thought that was a ballsie call. I would like to see part two of you driving a big boy successfully.
Me too
I like the Johnny #5 reference
Love the music
I love this highball through the yard song z
The reason why they make those 3 mile long trans is simple. They get like 60 cents more per lbs since they cut down costs that much
So what I found to be helpful is have little shunter diesel in front so it does not overheat to quickly does help so you not having to use two steamers
Have you ever tried Zeibach's Couplers?
Not yet!
I don't know how into TS2022 you are but there is a DLC, it's the Clear Creek Narrow Guage add-on that takes place on the Colorado Central on the Georgetown Loop in the Rockies in the 1930's and there's a separate addon for 1890's rolling stock and locomotives for that route. I think it would be fun to watch and fun for you to play.
I've got the route! I didn't know there was more stock for it though! That's cool. A play for sure.
@@Hyce777 yea it’s the “old timers pack” or something along those lines. It’s super fun.
Ive stalled at this exact spot so many times…. The cutoff wheel is so poorly explained that i have no idea what it does- i basically run the steam loco one notch from the top and leave it there, basically just functions as a reverser. Now I know i was doing it wrong, but the game is wrong too.
I can only imagine you pushing the throttle back and forth kind of like how the polar express try to slow down the train while going down like a 90-degree downhill a train on the cotter pin disconnected from the breaks and break the ice
More or less. lol
Unreleased 4 gives me some strong AC/DC vibes
Guilty :P
@@Hyce777 No complaints, favorite band. Seen'em twice, got an ear for Angus :P
Fun fact I’ve done 2 steam locomotives to :D
I just watched the push pull vid, OH. MY. GOD.
In the Hyce discord you should release the "Unreleased Hyce Original" (s).
I suppose so.
Vanilla ~800t is the limit the sh282 can pull out of the coal mine.
Impressive how far you got with over 1000t.
Yeah I recalled folks saying that. I bet if i didn't accidentally run the thing out of water and got as fast as possible I might have done it.
Probably could have made the grade had the water level been maintained. Because that’s when you lost all your pressure and momentum. Second the small reductions for the automatic watching your grades staying out of power when it’s not needed and doing reductions in 8-10lbs or one click in game few seconds to set no gauge at rear to watch but give time for length then check speed and adjust accordingly
Yeah, I made the mistake of assuming that empty water glass is like the real thing... not an empty boiler. Lol!
Watching the smoke from the locos reminds me that RRO locos don't puff smoke
It's on the list
@@Hyce777 you got a long list now😅
I've had some one try to explain to me before that steam engines are better at maintaining tonnage then Diesels, but Diesels are way better at starting tonnage.
"A steam engine can run a train it can't start, but a Diesel can start a train it has no business of running"
Is that due to the smaller wheels, or the instantaneous torque of the electric motors?
That is the old story!
For diesel: you get all kinds of torque and power at low speed, but you can't keep that up at higher speeds. For steam: the engine is literally directly coupled to the wheels - 1:1 gearing - in order to actually utilize the force of both cylinders you have to be going at a decent speed, else you can get "centered up" where only one cylinder is providing power.
I've had to stop and wait for more steam
Question for railroads online are there plans to be able to make the foundation banked for corners? Or is banked turns not realistic for narrow Guage or for the time period?
Banked isn't really prototypical for the narrow gauge in this time.
I may be wrong, but i think the knob for the blower is supposed to be connected as a control valve for steam to go to a blower to control the blower and not regulating the actual air going through it. basically like the control knob for the heater fan in a car. it controls the fan not the airflow.
The blower is literally just a valve that takes steam at boiler pressure and sends it out a pipe that then exhausts out the stack, causing a draft. There is no fan. Some blowers are fancy and called "ring blowers" that even out the flow, but, most I've run into just had a pipe that just ends pointing up the stack to one side.
@@Hyce777 I meant in the game, not IRL. The way the pipes are set up it looks like they modeled it as a control valve for a blower motor. But like i said i may be wrong.
@@Bendigo1 oh weird. I'll have to look into what you mean in game next time I've got the steam engine
The draft is just like an intake that takes air from under the train
The train was talking every so often
You need to get the multiple unit license
It would be easier since you can hook 2 or more together and control all from the front
Good idea.
I’m almost to a steamy boi and it seems like something I would love
Open the floor vent and blower and you have to grab more speed and slowly add power in exchange for speed
will there be some sort of autoloader for the cars in railroads online? Maybe something the player has to "buy" to unlock?
There will be an update to loading/unloading to make it less of a PITA at some point, yes :)
Hyce YOUR WASTEING SO MUCH COAL
Get a smaller shovel in one of the stores
I would like to see Hyce Original #3 in RO, a really cool solo!
Cheers mate! I do love that song. I don't think it's 100% thematically appropriate for the RO! Soundtrack but I do want to do a final version of it some day
I believe the term you are searching for at the beginning of the video good sir is "tie on" but that just me guessing
Lol, that's probably accurate.
When you were losing pressure on the hill, you had zero water in the boiler
Can anyone confirm that empty sight glass = no water in the boiler? That's not how the real thing works... lol
If that's the way the game works, that would explain a lot of it....
Listen to a hall class that doesn’t go chuf chuf it goes bang bang
did you open the Turbo valve by pushing the handle down meaning did you open the vant on bottom of the steam engine cab floor under fire box you need that open first
The damper, yes that's what I opened by pushing down. Allows more air in for a hotter fire.
@@Hyce777 ok just checking but also I was told you need to backup all the way and on to the other hill and you should roll back the Boston bar or reverser before you hit the hill I know some one that did that hill with 1,200 tons if you try that you should make it also you should have water cracked open not at full but half way open you want to hit 60 high ball in yard to make it out with 1,200 tons that’s the really max weight you can pull at correct speed you slip u done try hitting 60 before u hit hill or close to it
Hey Hyce, enjoy your content but it would be great if you include the game or format in the title like you did for the last videos. Always nice when you know what you’re about to watch. I mean I would have watched it regardless but still.
Ah this title was getting a touch long, good point. I'll add an acronym
IIRC the coal mine only ever has a steam loco (possibly the iron mines too)
In a previous attempt there was a DE6.
How do get work on a steam locomotive I would love to do it but I have no clue what qualifications I need or even how to apply
Find a volunteer outfit that works on them and go sign up!
@@Hyce777 ok thanks
there goes your bonus
The European train coupling thingy of a bob
Is it just a British loco thing but when he was saying about the power reverse valve do you not just have a forward reverse leave you can through from forward to reverse. Old British steam locos have that so you can go from going forward to pretty much instantly going in reverse
what?
@@Hyce777 sorry it might just be me i realise now that like in the porter in railroads online the reverse leaver is just common in all britsh locos. like the air powered power reverser or whatever is just a new consept to me as from the british locos i know its all mechanical.
Don’t worry about it I’ve looked it up and it’s fine. Just never heard of it and thought someone could elaborate. Don’t worry I’m just being a bit dim witted that’s all.
Now if you want to hear something religious the big boy
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