I believe you exposed the crown sheet when the track leveled off coming through the final tunnel into the GF B-yard, and you had just a hint in the glass before that. The blower being wide open has small but significant steam consumption on such a small boiler, but it was the grade change that really got you. The nasty crackly noises start off quiet and get louder as the crown sheet gets closer to failure. You should still have ~30 seconds between when the bad noises start and the kaboom, but if you don't hear them until they get more insistent, you may not have much time left at all. In this case since you weren't intentionally trying to blow it up, and weren't listening specifically for the nasty sounds, they snuck up on you. Glad you're enjoying the update. :)
Ah, let me tell the tale of my first run with the "Yank Tank". Once the update dropped, I made my way to Forest South. There she was, the S060, gleaming in the moonlight. I got her started, picked up a couple of jobs that took me to the sawmill and started on my way. Mostly downhill, made sure my loco was full of wet, made good time...until about 500 yards before sawmill. The incline up was too much for the little loco. Reverser full forward, regulator fully open; all that happened was a loss of steam pressure. So I applied the breaks, and headed on into the sawmill, where I happened upon another S060. Excellent, thinks I! I get her up and running, and made my waythe short distance along the mainline towards my stranded train. I rounded the corner, slowly backed towards the train. Then, it happened. I had obviously spent too much time getting there. In fact, exactly the wrong amount of time. For the 060 leading the train decided that would be an excellent time to kerplode. My little light engine was in the blast radius. It kerploded too. RIP little yank tanks. You were taken too soon
correct me: you hopped off a steam locomotive, left nobody there to keep an eye on the water level in the kettle, did not douse the fire, and the safety valve (or maybe some appliance) blew off enough steam to uncover the crown sheet? Sounds like the safest thing on Earth.
I believe you should name the incline that the yank tanks were lost on "Yank Hill". Not only is it in rememberance for the lost engines, but it also sounds like the name Hank Hill, a positively funny guy.
That boiler explosion was the most "brave engineer" thing i've ever seen. Making the whole trip with one of the most demanding engines on the most demanding route over almost the longest distance between 2 stations without stopping for water and explodes not 200ft from the dropoff lead.
I had the same shit happen to me when I was hauling 600 tons from Harbor to Machine Factory or whatever is up that route with the 282 in career. I wasn’t using my water properly and I ran out. 500 feet from the city, I blow up on the curve. I didn’t even get momentum to push the rest of my cars along to turn in my job. I was so distraught.
Time for bonus payment: 2.5h. Time to finish the job, including getting a second engine there and stuff: under 40 minutes. Time needed to top up water … maybe 5 minutes? Savings of not stopping to top up water: negative one locomotive. Analysis: drive smarter, not harder.
@@advorak8529 Well, this was Pre-Update where we didn’t have water towers at major stations, plus I didn’t have the Manual Service license so even if I could, I can’t. And there wasn’t a spot to get water in the route from HB - FF. A very long and slope-stretched line I took.
3:50 little fun fact for you, hyce, you can press alt to unlock your cursor and you can click the little names at the bottom of the station maps to go right to that page. very convenient to not have to scroll and scroll and scroll and overshoot.
@@amateuryoutuber that's the same point in the video I'm talking about, i quoted the time in the og post. Hyce uses his scroll wheel to scroll through, he doesn't click the tabs to quick select the page
There's no way they implemented that! I know there was a mod that did it, but it always has been broken with the latest Overhauled version. Too bad it's fricken hard to aim those hands in VR now.
55:41 infact yes, you can service it, it is a bad thing to do gameplay wise, since your copay is lower than the service cost, but on the other hand, if you don´t service the body (I think..., or some other part), you can have a working, but ruined looking loco, wich is cool, and I think fits the spirit of the ES&D quite well.
Really wish they would have that doccumented somewhere easy to find in-game. In fact it would make sense for that to have it's own booklet like the station map.
@@danksagrabowski2438 I've never heard of that, where is it found? I haven't seen it anywhere in my playthrough of simulator, and I've been pretty much everywhere now
The Southern Railway (England) bought 14 of these locomotives in 1946, to work the Southampton docks railway. At one point they were painted green, as the locomotive in the game appears. 4 of them survive in preservation. Some of them survived until the end of steam on the then Southern Region of British Railways. On the last day of steam, in July 1967, one engine travelled from Guildford to Eastleigh under its own steam, about half way across the map of southern England. The journey took most of the day because it was a long way, because the engine had a low top speed, and because the engine crew insisted on stopping several times to fill the water tanks, something that they insisted was “necessary”!
@@kristoffermangila Yes that’s right USATC S100’s. They were in the UK before the d-day landings along with S160 2~8~0 ‘s. Both classes were used in service in Britain before being shipped abroad. There were also some S200 2-8-2 ‘s stored but no used.
For anyone wondering: 12 teleports and $7088 later, Hyce finds the second S060 7 min 40 sec after finding out he needs to buy a shovel (3:30 - 11:10). Spent $7819 including the initial teleport to the FRC and $8069 including buying the shovel.
@@CakePrincessCelestia youre forgetting that he also wouldve gotten more money if he didnt crash the train which also means no fees to worry about so nevermind
The Logging Industries are so unloved because they're not the first industries you visit I love the Sawmill route. Edit: If we get more crew vehicles a water tanker to drag along with the 060 would be stellar
I gotta say Hyce, as someone who has been firing traction engines for about a year, with about 50 hours under my belt, I was so utterly disappointed in myself for the 2 minutes it took to boil off SH282-072, yes I remember her number. When you spend a decent chunk of time firing irl, loosing a crown sheet in VR… just hits differently.
I think the 060 is based on the 060s that were used in europe by the americans after WWII. They spread all over europe, and I think even parts of africa and asia. In this color scheme it reminds my of the italian-ised version of it. IMO its the perfect choice for this game.
It for sure does show the USATC S100 part, That were used alot here in britain well after WW2 till the end of steam mainly known for working on the docks around brighton and the south coast hence the nickname Dock tanks.
So not quite. The DV 060 is based upon the Yugo copies (Class 62’s), which in turn are based on the USATC S100’s. There were two versions of the 62’s, DV closest to the later built versions having the bent steam pipes. It’s no wonder why Hyce likes this loco so much, it a USA-like loco in disguise
I just did the same trip with the 060, but hauling 9 cars instead of 3. After delivering that I then took 522 tons of scrap metal back the way I came to Steel Mill and after delivering that I used up 459kg of coal (out of 1200) and 2854 liters of water (out of 4500). It's an achievement in and of it self that you managed to run out even before dropping of your load at Goods Factory
You might be able to manual service the 060 by rerailing it and towing it to the shop. I think they made it so that it keeps the exploded texture. Might not work with steamers though.
Needs a 100% (all licenses) save file in the game though, but those can be downloaded, I guess. No need to play that one then. Just take it for unlocking the custom realism settings in career mode.
I've done this run with double the tonnage and still had water left over. I think you just let the water run out in the boiler not the saddles. I also find the game uses a ton of water on startup and it is often worth topping up before leaving. You can also manually service destroyed engines, you just rerail them and use another engine to push them into the repair bay, fix them up and then push them to refuel and rewater. It will cost a fortune though, a destroyed S060 costs around $75,000 just to fix back up.
I've never been interested in train sims (except tycoons), but somehow this video popped up in my recommended and I'm loving it, even want to play myself.
Top video Hyce, thank you for that. Comment on the 0-6-0 dance: Try working in a griddle car with Frying pans full of oil when you are directly coupled behind an 0-6-0... now THAT is what you call spicy! Hot oil sloshing around while you're trying to cook! This was about 30 years ago on the Great Central Railway in Loughborough, England. Amazing railway tbh and the one I grew up on as my Dad was a fireman when I was about 5 years old. Anyway, lets say that we put in a strongly worded complaint (basically we told them that if they set up the train like that again then we weren't opening the kitchen!) Fair play, they quickly reshuffled the carriages but not until after I had a severe burn to my arm. Ah well, those were the days :) But as for 0-6-0's, I would kill to have a 64xx Pannier tank in game. First loco that I fired, first that I drove. Amazing bit of kit! Thanks once again bud, both to you and Mickely :)
You should embrace the logistical hauls. Somebody's gotta haul the empties back. And empties are light. Logistical haul + concurrent jobs II = long trains = more fun.
mate Hyce i was doing the tutorial on the little 0-6-0 and i just finished it, had no clue how it all worked in simulator mode. i wanted to close the roof door whilst i was reversing the train and while i grabbed the door it just detonated and scared the SHIT out of me, i was in VR as well and it was the middle of the night in game and irl xD gotta love figuring stuff out the hard way. then yesterday i got the courage to drive it again as i was drunk as hell and i actually took it from goods factory to the steel mill and ligned up a 9 car train from steel mill to machine factory.... wish me luck
OH MY GOSH, HYCE!! I just realized you can go into the exterior view to watch the radius bar adjust to the reverser! You should do that next chance you get
It was very funny when you thought, that you didn't mneed to refill at the stell mill, whilst I knew, that there is no steamservice at the good factory.
maybe not for coal, but I'm pretty sure the patch that added the 0-6-0 also added water towers to pretty much every station. you might not be able to fill up on coal, but you can on water.
I blew up two s060's just by walking away across the yard to turn in paperwork. I thought it might have been a bug from getting too far away, but seeing how fast yours exploded after the water passed the bottom of the sight glass, I think the crown sheet was the failure point both times.
Although the boiler went kaboom (which was hilarious, btw) I actually learned a fair bit about how to drive the 0-6-0 from watching this run. I had a brief go at it earlier and couldn't get it to accelerate no matter what I did. I was doing it totally wrong, lol.
Just a tip that may help save the F key. If you have a logitech gaming mouse or keyboard (possibly other brands too) you can set a F key macro in the software that repeats. I have it set on my mouse so that I can toggle it and just sprint away until I toggle it again. Makes it 2 clicks instead of 8000
for logitech, it's specific to the gaming software for the gaming mice, they can set repeating macros on the g502 for ex, but not the mx master 3 whos software only allows one press macros. Thats super annoying logitech
@@cliff4377 Not a fan of their software as well. Always used their old SetPoint with uberOptions which really was a massive improvement, but when getting an Anywhere MX 2, that wasn't working anymore and I had to install the newer one. Then it greeted me with a big fat "It'S gReAt To HaVe OpTiOnS!" screen and the only options it gives me is mapping a very slim selection of system functions to the back/fwd and the middle button, that's it. "Yeah, it _would_ be great to have options, indeed, you jerks!" is what I think of that XD
I’ve replied to this before, but this should be told everywhere. The DV 060 is based upon the Yugo copies (Class 62’s), which in turn are based on the USATC S100’s. There were two versions of the 62’s, DV is closest to the later built versions having the bent steam pipes. It’s no wonder why Hyce likes this loco so much, it a USA-like loco in disguise
Weird as it seems, I like seeing how people set their task bars up. I use the station maps far too much to delegate them that far to the right on the bar.
LOL, same! :D For me it's pretty much: 1 Radio thingy 2 Station map 3 World map 4 Remote 5 Flashlight 6 Lantern 7 Lighter 8 EOT lantern 9 Shovel 10 Wallet - Watch = Compass I play mostly in VR, so it doesn't really matter though since you just open up the inventory and point&click the thingy there.
@@Hyce777 Fair enough... at some point, you just know where stuff is. And you're probably still wondering as well why all the non-liquid stuff needs to get unloaded in the liquid stuff dock and the liquid stuff needs to get unloaded in the non-liquid stuff in Harbour... (Yards C and D)
So I finally drove this thing in my game and did Hyce's route twice with no issue and plenty of coal and water to spare. Haven't had the chance to go to and leave the harbor yet so can't say how long the water lasts going uphill all the way, but so far it's been like a DE2 that can actually pull up hills, though it also goes a lot slower. One thing I will agree with Hyce on: the S060 WILL blow up within seconds of the sight gauge going empty. If you open the regulator you must constantly monitor and inject water because it goes extremely fast when you're actively using steam and one minute of inattention is enough to blow up the loco.
So I'll admit I had the same experience on my first outing with the 0-6-0. Picked it up at the Forest, ran up to the Steel Mill and after 2 switching jobs I noticed the water injector just … wasn't doing anything. Heard the crackle, tried to get to the service track but suddenly blew up. I can confirm that the saddle tanks were in fact empty already. I'm going to say the locos are spawning with half-water, especially since it happened to a Pro as well!
I really do appreciate the Devs on this game. the only small, small complaint I have is how intensive the steam loco running is. I understand what the Devs are doing but there really needs to be an auto FIreman or Driver for it. I know its a big order trying to code it all hence why it's a small complaint. But the amount of times I've derailed due to missed speed limits, or explodey boy from running out of water is a tad annoying. Still amazing game and fabulous content. Can't wait to see what comes of this game in the future
I know they're planning on adding AI train traffic in the future, so maybe an AI helper for the steam locos could be in the cards too (though its not explicitly listed in their roadmap)
If you follow the Steam guide for unlocking custom difficulty options in career, you could make an exact copy of realistic but with far teleport added back in. And for added realism, you can disable "control highlight" in settings. I'm surprised more people don't do this, I'm a total newb at the game and it took all of 15 minutes to get used to.
I just played VR and this shunter is nice, it’s cool that the devs now added bells so we don’t have to have mods for them to work, as well as the cylinder cocks too and the running gear on it works so realistically
Ah yes, Hyce's channel. Come for the train stuff, get bonus train game footage and Hot Fuzz reference. Yep, this is why I joined lol. Oh, and forgetting to feed coal....HAHAHAHA!
I'm feeling the pain of having to TP around the map, looking for a loco! I did the same, when I was looking for my first DM3. I wish the game would give a greater chance at spawning the loco's we have licenses for. READ OUR MINDS, GAME! We need a new loco! Not a new DE2. 😅
hey, i got something to correct from 19:00 on: the reason that the motion is reversed on the 060 is that the eccentric is 90° ahead of the main rod, where as in standart waelscharts the eccentric is trailing by 90°.
That little choo-choo led me on such an emotional journey, and met such a sad end. The weather really matches the mood, rip S060, your little toots will be missed
One last thing: YEESH, the repairs to the 0-6-0 are pricy. However, you probably won't have to pay NEARLY as much if you rerail and manually service her, since, you know, ya got that license.
49:33 Something I just thought of is the fact that opening the injector all the way while there's still burning fuel in the firebox is probably A VERY BAD IDEA!! Because if the crown sheet is sizzling, it's gonna immediately vaporize into steam, which will cause the pressure to skyrocket! It's best to dump the fuel first, THEN open the injector to cool it off, if you have any water left that is. Edit: EVERY TIME. EVERY TIME I SAY SOMETHING, IT'S RIGHT BEFORE REALIZING YOU'RE ABOUT TO!! _sighhhhh_ Who's the professional railroader here? You are, Hyce. Of course you're going to know this stuff...
Seems like switcher locomotives with walschaerts valve gear it’s set where the rod is up for forward. The dance on the track looks almost close to when central RR of New Jersey 113 was pulling the Santa trains at high speed and doing the tango on the track that’s awesome they simulate that.
i do wonder if you can actually fit that thing back on the track and then shove it into the manual service, it would be hilarious if you could fix it despite it going kaboom!
So close! And yet so far... We all know it'll be mere days, if that, before someone paints that thing blue with red trim. And a big yellow "1" on the side.
By the way, Hyce, I just remembered that they removed the accumulation of water at speed with Build 95, since irl it's quite a small amount and usually just leaves the cylinders anyway
