Modeltrainman's Real Year Mod for SMR

[Modeltrainman]

I modified the XML's so most of the locomotives appear on their true dates. I also modified the speed of the locomotives to match their real life speeds. One question though, According to my research, the A4 Mallard set a speed record of 126mph. How do I use that speed in SMR, if the game adds a zero to the speed numbers? When I tried it the first time, the number it created was 1.260 mph. How do I set it to 126mph?

[snoopy55]

With the speed number being multiplied by 10, will the game accept 12.6?

[Modeltrainman]

120,close enough.

[vzbob]

With the speed number being multiplied by 10, will the game accept 12.6?

With the speed number being multiplied by the max speed you can change the following to suit
Sets Max speed <MaxSpeed>13</MaxSpeed>
sets Speed <Speed0>14</Speed0>
14 x 13 =182 mph.
20 x 10 = 200 etc.

[snoopy55]

You might want to look at the TVG. With your formula:

<MaxSpeed>20</MaxSpeed>
<Speed0>20</Speed0>

or 20 x 20 = 400

There is something about the

<MaxSpeed>
<Speed0>
<Power>

figures that have some kind of meaning.

In the <szClass> of Goods we have Passenger, Mail, FastFreight, Freight and BulkFreight.

In the engines, <MaxSpeed> is the speed the engine goes with no or empty cars. The other two should have some effect on the type and number of cars. A study would need to be done using Hill Valley Rush as it is flat.

A second way might be to list the Engines, along with those three numbers and look over the graph that comes with each Engine and see what can be seen there There has to be some corrilation. Of course, like a few other variables, one or both may not mean a thing........

(and yes, I realize now that the Speed0 is not a multiplier...I had missed the TVG...... )

[vzbob]

You might want to look at the TVG. With your formula:

<MaxSpeed>20</MaxSpeed>
<Speed0>20</Speed0>

or 20 x 20 = 400

There is something about the

<MaxSpeed>
<Speed0>
<Power>

figures that have some kind of meaning.

In the <szClass> of Goods we have Passenger, Mail, FastFreight, Freight and BulkFreight.

In the engines, <MaxSpeed> is the speed the engine goes with no or empty cars. The other two should have some effect on the type and number of cars. A study would need to be done using Hill Valley Rush as it is flat.

A second way might be to list the Engines, along with those three numbers and look over the graph that comes with each Engine and see what can be seen there There has to be some corrilation. Of course, like a few other variables, one or both may not mean a thing........

(and yes, I realize now that the Speed0 is not a multiplier...I had missed the TVG...... )

<Power> relates to what the loco can carry.
a low number = Just passengers & mail.
medium number for goods
and a high number for all passenger & freight.
i have played with these figures and have had trains running at 400mph

[Star Ranger4]

<Power> relates to what the loco can carry.
a low number = Just passengers & mail.
medium number for goods
and a high number for all passenger & freight.
i have played with these figures and have had trains running at 400mph

Actually, power is sort of a horsepower representation, which controls how many cars can be attached to the engine before its speed starts degrading, and by how much.

[dda40x]

I've been adjusting some locomotive stats for my scenario, and came across this thread.

I just did a quick test (a Wells to Ely run, 8 food/fast freight), with two trains. I mixed in some flat with some moderate and extremely steep grades up and down between Wells and Ely. No curves below 200 MPH on this route, relatively straight run.

Speed for both engines was set at 7.5, ingame this means top speed of 74 MPH.
Engine 1 Speed0-14 Power 10 51 Seconds
Engine 2 Speed0-7 Power 20 69 Seconds

With Bulk Freight (Smelted Copper in this case) the results were:
Engine 1 Speed0-14 Power 10 70 Seconds
Engine 2 Speed0-7 Power 20 81 Seconds

The Speed0-14 Power 10 Loco's chart w/Bulk Freight falls off after 5 cars. Top speed w/8 Bulk Freight cars was around 60 MPH on my Wells-Ely runs.

The Speed0-7 Power 20 Loco's chart w/Bulk Freight falls off after 3 cars. Top Speed w/8 Bulk Freight cars was around 48 MPH on my Wells-Ely runs.

The main thing I wanted to point out is that you can set top speeds to fractional amounts, and are not limited to 60/70/80/etc.. It will show 70 MPH when you select the loco, but you will see up to 74 ingame with a 7.5.

Another experiment I did was to set the Speed0 to 2 for these locos, which dropped their top speed when empty below 40 MPH on relatively flat runs.

Further experimentation:
I just loaded two power curves:
70 MPH, 12/11, 70 MPH 10/14
The 12/11 has a slightly better curve power wise than the 10/14; both fall off after 5 cars, to 50 MPH-ish with 8 Bulk Freight.

I tried a 7.5/12/2 curve, and it fell off almost immediately, flattening out to 20 MPH pretty quickly.

So, it looks like Power allows for somewhat finer control than Speed0, for those of you trying to hit that 'perfect' power curve, but both factors need to be dialed in properly.

Hope this helps!

[wingsofphoenix]

good to know that
but speed0 is actually for acceleration and doesnt effect maxspeed, thats why passenger locos have high number and freight low