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I do love me some buzzing Czech traction in other simulators/games, don't get me wrong, but this is my take on the SR 163 thyristor sound: The waveform does not really sound authentic in my ears. The real 163 has more of a sawtooth buzz to it with scooped mids because the sound source is behind a door. The SR 163 waveform is fuller and combined with loud mids makes it more ear piercing to some users. The other thing is the frequency. Turns out that the SR 163 tone is at 304 hz and not 300 hz, why I wonder? If you play the sounds for the SR 163 and the real 163 simultaneously you can hear the frequency mismatch. This tells us that the SR sounds are most likey synthesized and not recorded from a real loco. To be authentic or realistic, according to my sources, the three frequencies are 33 hz, 100 hz, 300 hz. You can create and hear how much closer a sawtooth waveform is to the real 163 if you're familiar with Audacity: Generate a sawtooth wave at 300 hz. With a curve EQ you can leave some "body" at 300 hz, then scoop the frequencies right after, then come back in at about 6000 hz. +1 for a revisit on the thyristor sounds

The Enter through the door option places the player in the door opening which makes the player controller unable to move passed the chair and the door collisions. If you close the door at this point you get pushed into the chair collision and get stuck for a while. The only fix at that point is to press the 1-key to sit down in the driver seat, however, this breaks the continuity of the first-person camera system you have which is to be able to walk anywhere and transition smoothly through doors, into seats, etc. Very rarely is the player controller transitioned to the middle of the cab passed the chair and the door collisions. This is probably how the Enter through the door transition is meant to be. To be honest I wouldn't mind having cab seats without collisions that would let you walk right through them, but this might look wrong visually if other players are around and catch you doing that.

Scenery Lodz - Warszawa Scenario [Reg] Skierniewice - Warszawa Zachodnia Train 36WEd [Impuls 2 DLC] Location Parzniew → Pruszkow → Piastow Teleport: Pruszkow S: opoczno_warszawa_grochow_terrain_x216_z421, P: (111052.00, 99.80, 215565.40), R: (0.74, 60.80, 0.00) Teleport: Screenshot (Pruszkow → Piastow) S: opoczno_warszawa_grochow_terrain_x218_z422, P: (112047.60, 100.30, 216135.30), R: (359.24, 60.05, 0.00) After departing Parzniew and heading for Pruszkow I got a red signal waiting for me at the next station. ETCS began its braking curve and I followed along by braking and stopping well within the limits. After departing Pruszkow I noticed that the main MFD was frozen in the state it was in when I stopped (see frozen MFD in the screenshot below), but regardless I chose to continue accelerating up to line speed of 120 km/h just to see what would happen, and nothing did. Then I turned on the HUD and it showed a possibly frozen speed limit of 50 km/h, and my current speed was only displayed in caution/yellow even though I was running twice the speed limit, as you can see in the screenshot: After arriving at Piastow I decided to do a reset. I deactivated the cab which shut off everything except the frozen MFD remained. Reactivating the cab did not help either, still frozen. Then I went to the other cab which showed a working main MFD. I went ahead and shut down this cab which resulted in a crash to desktop when I flipped the cab battery switch off. I guess the frozen MFD caused the CTD. SimRail_log_2026-03-01_08-51-04.txt

A building next to Warszawa Wschodnia platform 1 rendered on top of the fog: Stopped at platform 1 for a closer look: The river also rendered on top of the fog: Comparison of the foggy bridge and the river: There were a handful more assets that rendered on top of the fog during the drive from Warszawa Wschodnia, which were mainly fences, gates, text on buses, text on buildings, etc. But the two cases above were the most obvious because of their size on screen. I've reported a similar case before: https://forum.simrail.eu/topic/9231-railing-and-mesh-fencing-renders-on-top-of-fog-at-lazy

Problem: Unable to bind modifier + key without conflicting with existing key bind e.g. Ctrl+Num2 collides with Num2 To illustrate this with a specific case, I tried to bind cruise control speeds to modifier + numpad keys: But they end up conflicting with single numpad key bindings for driving controls I'd like to keep: The fast move interaction conflicts with my Ctrl + Shift + Num binds: Perhaps related to this, and a little strange, is that it's not possible to bind modifier + key combos to some of the driving controls, see power controller up/down and shunt up/down below. Only the modifier key gets registered and bound:

Scenario: EN76, Zawiercie - Katowice The images are ordered in sequence illustrating the the approach into Lazy where you can see how the transparent textures renders on top of the fog:

To crowd places like Warszawa Centralna they could use character models with optimized geometry and no animation, which is cheap compared to having multiple animated characters walking around. A non-animated character would probably only require a surrounding box collision to not be walked through by AI or players. In terms of crowd variation over time on multiplayer servers, one could shuffle these static characters around when there are no players nearby, or when the server restarts. And another thing; backpacks, luggage, purses, etc is a perfect fit for static characters since these characters do not move around which minimizes possible visual glitches as in mesh intersections. Static characters could even have large suitcases standing next to them.

Decided to "Polish" the train announcements and this still works like a charm; +Add Polish voice pack and then copy pl.lang into the en.lang file is what I did. I didn't see it mentioned here, hence this reply, but there are two polish TTS voices available for Windows 10/11 according to this document, namely Microsoft Adam and Microsoft Paulina. Here are sone samples from SimRail with said voices (the videos may look big, but they're mainly audio which makes the file sizes small, only way I could upload audio, sorry for the spam look in advance): train-announcement-test-pl-adam.mp4 train-announcement-test-pl-paulina.mp4 And a bonus voice, I got a more husky version of Paulina (?) if no value was set or the name was invalid in the .lang file: train-announcement-test-pl-paulina-huh.mp4

rush-hour.mp4 Just the normal rush hour on EU2 server 😀

By default the wheel scroll up and down are assigned to zoom in view and zoom out view which makes it seem like it should be possible to rebind a wheel scroll direction: But turns out when trying to assign scroll up you get a Scroll Wheel binding instead which probably means any direction: When trying to assign wheel scroll down you get the same Scroll Wheel binding as before which naturally causes a binding duplicate: To rebind scroll wheel up/down you have to Reset to default which means you lose other rebinds you've made: Suggestion: Would be nice if a wheel scroll direction could have modifiers assigned to it as well. Currently it only registers the modifier press not including the wheel scroll: End of slideshow 🙂

That's a good analogy, the jump is like a boat hitting a wave too I feel like. I agree, the area around the tracks would greatly benefit from more imperfections, and the grass in particular could be more wild and varied, which has been mentioned in other posts before of course. Regarding making the rides more bumpy, the truck simulator franchises ETS2/ATS recently added uneven roads emulation to get more movement in the cabs which I believe was implemented in a generalized way as in scripted, but still physical. For detailed noise like that it's probably beneficial to do it that way, but for larger unevenness in train tracks it may require the actual tracks to be modified. Could be generated probably, wouldn't have to be manual labor in the editor. Also a more ragdoll like physics based camera shake from emulated bumps and unevenness could also be effective as it would only require the camera viewpoint to be modified.

oscillations-slawkow-dabrowa-gornicza-wschodnia.mp4 If you watch the first 3 seconds of the clip from above (from the initial post) it's the: bounce-up, then-what-seems-to-be-half-a-second-airtime, then-drop-down-again and repeat... jumps I'm talking about. The reference video from real life has more of good shake than a levitating jump. Maybe the Unity physics are being weird with the EN96 suspension, but then again, I may be in the wrong 😄

This is a follow up to a post I made a long time ago about strange oscillations happening on tracks east of Dabrowa Gornicza Wschodnia. Original post: What's new this time around is that I noticed when looking down on the tracks there was a sleeper missing every ~10 meters or so, and that's also where the bounces happen. Coincidence? This goes on for about 4 km on both tracks in this area. My initial thought was that something went wrong when laying the tracks making a gap between them, but I could be wrong of course. Short clip showing the missing sleepers and bounces: missing-sleepers-strange-oscillations-follow-up.mp4 Close up showing missing sleepers on both sides:

Heading east after leaving Dabrowa Gornicza Wschodnia. Located at about 65,5 km

The unofficial wiki has a page on these loco types here https://simrail.cz/wiki/index.php?title=Electric_unit_EN57_/_EN71