Switching Bryson | Railroader S1E08 

for the boxcar, I was thinking it while scrolling comments. lol

Was just about to point out the game switch :P Keep up the great work! Love playing the game aswell!

And under modern rules a flying switch is illegal! But that’s the fun of video games

Thank you, that's very kind. I've been watching some others play, so there are other good series out there

Hyce is making a series, but he is only uploading once a week

Thanks for watching!

Yes, you have misunderstood. Train brakes work differently than other vehicle air brakes like big trucks or busses. They're complicated, but you can find videos here on RU-vid that explain it or look it up on Google.

​@@KerboOnYT Alright. Thank you so much sir!!!! I will look into it.

​@@KerboOnYT well after looking into it a bit, I feel like I may owe some people an apology. I was explaining that like the early brakes were and not anything more modern 😂 you live and learn but I'm willing to admit..... I boobooed but I learned. Thank you sir!

The short version is that there are kinda like 2 different air brake systems in play. The brake pipe, and the car's air reservoir (brake cylinder). The brake pipe is the air coming from the motor, the brake reservoir fills from the pipe, and retains the air pressure to actuate the brakes on the car. When the brake pipe takes a reduction, this allows the air from the reservoir to actuate the brakes. This is why closing the angle cock coming from a car and then cutting the next car loose will apply the brakes, because there is a total loss of brake pipe pressure (known as putting the brakes in emergency). When the brakes go in emergency, there is a little air left in the brake cylinder. Bleeding off the air in the brake cylinder releases the brakes on the car, and if no air is on the brake pipe, then there are no air brakes available on the car. Additionally, closing the anglecocks on both ends of the car you are cutting off is known as "bottling air." Doing so would also keep the brake pipe and cylinder equal, therefore not actuating the brakes. We used to bleed off the air on cars in the yard where I worked when we were sorting cars. As long as there were 2 cars to kick into, you could send the car down the track to hit the rest of the cars down in that track saving time of having to shove the entire consist back in there to properly couple the cars together. There are limitations laid out in the rulebooks on what you can and cannot kick.

I've played around with the dispatching panel outside of this series and plan to implement signals at some point. If I don't want to do CTC I can set it to ABS mode and just let the AI run like it does now. Thanks for watching!

Nice catch. Oops!

Yep, I missed that

That's not rude at all. John Goodman has a great voice and is a fellow Missourian. I've been told I sound like him a few times and I'll take it as a compliment. Thanks for watching!

The starting locos are doing just fine so far

@@KerboOnYT It might be useful though to have one available freight loco at each end of the line and one available for passenger service

​@@andrewreynolds4949the starter mougals can pull a lot more than they appear to be able to I pulled a full 1500 tones of freight from Whittier down to sylva with no issues on a single mougal there are hills but at that weight you can just coast over them the hardest thing is making sure you do not go over 40 mph you will bin the train on any engine lol

​@@andrewreynolds4949 I guess when I have enough money, another cute Mogul will be my choice for local shunting duty along the way and one of the bigger ones to service Sylva as for a passenger train with two cars and the odd freight remnant, the Mogul does fine but any serious loaded wagon makes the trip to Sylva tedious and me anxious.

@@OGBlackjack4701 It's listed as the "Class G-16" on the steam page, so it appears it's rated for ~1600 tons (flat ground) I think. It looks like they've adopted a slightly modified version of the DRGW classification system, where the number indicates maximum tractive power rating

Bummer! I hope you can play again soon

Do you have a source for that? I couldn't find that information in game.

@@KerboOnYT in the location menu for the contracts there is a line saying 6-3 2% timely bonus

* Bonus 6-3-2% for timely delivery, you can see it at 36:16

@@m4cpksherman352 Oh, that's what that means. It's not very clear. Thanks!

@@KerboOnYT @m4cpksherman352 that explanation is wrong. 6-3-2% is for delivery on same day, next day and the day after. There is a mouse over tooltip on the location screen where the bonus is listed (quite concealed).