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Could you explain what you mean with ‘sandbox’? I don't really understand what it is you're suggesting and I have a feeling the devs may not either.

No, EP08 was just the locomotive I've observed this in. I have since noticed that this also happens in EN57 with the same radio model. I'm fairly sure it would be the same in EN71, EP07, and EU07. In Pesa Elf and other cabs with the same radio model, the keybinds work fine.

Here you go, logs from all three attempts (edited to anonymise my username): SimRail_log_2026-03-01_18-.7z

Cannot reproduce this on my end. I can hide both independently from each other no problem. My keybindings are F4 for bottom right and F6 for top left. What are yours, if I may ask?

Where do I find them?

Today I wanted to play as dispatcher for the first time after the update came out. Unfortunately, every time I tried to join the game, after the loading screen, and after spawning in the office, the game simply hangs. I cannot look around or move. Pressing Escape or any other button yields no reaction. Steam Overlay also stops working. Eventually, after a few seconds, the OS says that the program stopped responding and asks if I want to force quit. This happens no matter whether I play one of the new signal boxes from the Łódź DLC or one of the old ones.

I have recently added keybindings for switching radio on and off. However, in EP08, pressing the ‘radio on’ keybinding does not work to switch the radio on; instead, when I switch it on with the mouse, pressing the ‘radio on’ keybinding switches the radio off instead.

It's the job of whoever puts the consist together to apply the various rules and regulations of which brake settings to use where and when. As a driver driving a ‘finished’ train you normally don't have to worry about that. If the pressure in the reference reservoir (A-Kammer) in the distributor gets too high – say, 5.5 bar – and the brake pipe pressure drops back to 5 bar too quickly, the distributor will apply the brake. (After all, 5.5 bar reference and 5 bar brake pipe is indistinguishable from 5 bar reference and 4.5 bar brake pipe.) And then you will be accelerating, thinking the brakes are released, but actually they're applied and running hot. Or, alternatively, you won't be able to get the train moving at all. If this happens and the difference in pressure is not too great, brake assimilation will fix it. If not, then the only thing you can do is pull that handle you see in the post above to ‘purge the air’ as jeroezie called it. On an ancient single-release triple valve, this would empty out the one and only reservoir that supplied both reference pressure and air for the cylinder. On a modern (KE or similar) distributor, this empties out the reference reservoir without touching the one that supplies the cylinder. It's UIC/European air brakes in general. They all work pretty much the same.

What the fuck. I would never even have considered that! Clicking on an entry field to apply changes?? That just spits in the face of 50 years of human–machine interface guidelines! What did the DMI developers at Newag smoke?! … Thank you for this information. That's pretty counterintuitive. I'll try this out immediately.

I've been informed that pressing the ETCS acknowledge button is actually the correct thing to do in this case according to ETCS SRS. But again – I have tried this and it doesn't work.

To get to know the vehicle before playing multiplayer, I started the ‘vehicle test’ Żmigród scenario with the Impuls 2. However, I cannot figure out how to perform ETCS SOM to be able to drive – be it in level NTC, 1 or 2. The DMI boots in SB mode to a speed gauge and a prompt to enter driver number. I can enter some number here and press a button to proceed to entering my train number. However, on that screen, there is no button allowing me to confirm the number entered, only one to go back to the previous screen. I have tried pressing the separate ETCS acknowledgement button. This didn't do anything. And if I start driving anyway, ETCS automatically stops me saying I moved without authorisation (of course, since I'm still in SB mode). This happens no matter if I choose the scenario as ‘cold start’ or ‘ready to drive’ (though of course with cold start it only happens once I've switched on the battery and activated the cab). Is this a bug? Or have I missed some vital step?

Primarily when coupling or uncoupling a locomotive to/from a consist. It allows to keep the train braked while pushing the locomotive against the first wagon to compress the buffers so the coupler gets some slack in it. Yes and no. The difference between G and P is timing, that is correct; G brakes both apply and release much more slowly than P. But the timings on P and R are the same. Historically, with tread brakes (Klotzbremsen), R meant that the brake has a mechanism to switch to ‘high brake force’ (Hochabbremsung, hohe Abbremsung) above a certain speed (something around 60 km/h) which increases the brake cylinder pressure significantly to counteract the unfortunate property of tread brakes that the same brake cylinder pressure yields worse deceleration the faster the wheel is turning. Disc brakes, however, have a pretty constant deceleration over speed, so R disc brakes simply increase the pressure in the cylinder. R brakes also typically have wheelslide protection, while P brakes typically do not. A German driver's brake valve does not generally protect against overcharging if you hold it in ‘fill’. But since you'd have to actively hold the handle pushed forward, it's not much of an issue, really. It depends on what kind of distributor you have. For old models like Kkg/Kkp/Kks, this may be true. In the KE, invented in the 50s and the most widespread design in Europe since then, the reservoir is recharged from the brake pipe if its pressure drops too low no matter if the brake is applied or released. The most important thing about brake assimilation not mentioned here is that the brake line pressure is raised and then lowered back to 5 bar very slowly, so that the brakes don't register it as brake application but their reference pressure still drops accordingly. With this, one can recover from slight overcharging, and in push-pull trains, this may also be needed after changing cabs, to account for inaccuracies in the 5 bar reference pressures of the different driver's brake valves and the slight drop in brake pipe pressure along the length of the train now going the opposite way.

Since the EN75 have tread brakes with P brake mode only, the deceleration is very high at low speeds and significantly reduced at higher speeds, so I tend to go full service brake when approaching a station and then release it bit by bit as needed to come to a stop in the right place. Also, if you only have friction brakes anyway, energy loss and brake wear is not a reason why you should start braking earlier. The same kinetic energy will be converted to heat in the brakes one way or another (assuming you stop accelerating at the same point).

ET22 has six axles.

Ever since the January 2026 update, most of the time, when I try to load a train in multiplayer, the loading screen appears and then nothing happens. The progress bar remains empty. After a few seconds, my window manager starts telling me that the program is not responding and prompts me to force quit or wait. I have managed to drive one train yesterday after three failed attempts at loading another. I had no luck today. My system is Ubuntu 25.10, using Steam Play/Proton and thus Steam Linux Runtime. Switching from Proton stable (10.0) to Proton Experimental did not solve the issue. The issue did not occur on previous versions of SimRail nor when playing the ČD 163 tutorial in singleplayer. I understand this report may be very vague; let me know how I can help you identify and solve the problem.