TrainEngineer

With Dutch I can help as well. Also (was) a train driver in the Netherlands.

It occurs on ANY server with ANY signal tower I connect. With the Early Access version it's the first time connecting, It seems a "first time use" scenario is triggered with a friendly voice that announces. The voice comes as far as "you can communicate with the neighbouring dispatcher" and then pops out with the message "disconnected from the server without reason". attached sim log from start of program until disconnect from above. SimRail_log_2023-01-14_16-11-35.txt

apologies... couldn't find a duplicate.

I feel like an utter champion, but I think it's a bug... just calculated that with an average of 80 km/h, it would have taken about 643 years to achieve this. (unless you verify that you released in 1380 :-))

Dear Driver Supervisor. Today, I crashed into a car at a crossing... The barriers were closed, but the driver decided to not move. At all. I stopped, walked back and tried to apply first aid... I encountered a traffic jam around a shrub... Just recovered from the crash and, gosh, what happened? My ghost driver took off without me! Accusing me of "doing nothing". Luckily the "1" button saved my bottom by pulling me back in the driver's seat. While recovering from the emotions, a few miles later... some other occurrence with the road traffic occurred... Again, I applied the emergency brakes, but to no avail... I hit it full and bloody while crumbling the vehicle to pieces. Anyway... good scare, but all is ok. Otherwise: seriously enjoying the sim. If you came this far reading: thank you for all your work. Don't you ever get worried about negative comments. Some people are simply horrible. I don't expect this product to be "perfect". It's doing really good so far. Take your time.

sorry.. looked for it, but it's very hard to find a duplicate in the forum...

Yes it does light up indeed. Normally, one would attach the speedometer to the first axle, and it would be the first axle to slip first. (normally the front axle of each bogie. Hence the "alarm" goes off, if a different current (voltage) is measured between two axles, as it would be the marker for "slip". (if one engine slips, current goes down. If in shunting, speed can go pretty high) Not sure about the EP07, but I would expect also to have the speedo physically connected per cab to the front axle, as to show slipping to the driver via the speedo (and register it..)

In the Station of Dabrowa Gornicza Zabkowice going southbound towards Katowice on the through freight tracks, there is a situation on approach to red signal N4 2/3 with a single yellow aspect ahead of it towards the red signal, a 120 km/h is allowed but only less than 400 m brake distance is available. Note in pic below: 120 km/h was allowed BEFORE the yellow signal until the red signal. It was impossible to stop. Luckily the sim "bounced" me at the stop signal. (great idea!) otherwise it would have been a nice crash into the flank.

This is great, but with a tiny bug: With the EP07 it is possible to slip in the simulation. and it sounds awesome and the ampere meter shows it somehow too. Though the speedometer does NOT show a sudden speed increase. In reality the Hasler speedometer is connected mechanically to one axle. Normally the front axle? The front axle, or even the front bogie tends to slip easily with wet weather, especially on busy level crossings (dirt from the cars on the road), and especially if you use shunting. (remember, a higher rotation, is less current is weaker field, traction engine wants to go faster...) Note that the anti-slip brake in the sim doesn't have any effect. It adds the air to the brake cylinder, but doesn't stop the slip. Normally the slip would stop, when the anti-slip brake is applied. So, sofar job well done. Make sure the speedometer (Hasler) also shows a speed increase. It's a great indicator that you're powering too much in a slippery situation... (all based on 37 years experience driving... :-))

Kind of a little scare.... but undesired side effect.

At the viaduct on this very location, a car was not moving under the railway viaduct, but came over the rails on top of the road. Didn't believe my eyes, but was kind of an interesting view. But not correct.

While a quite realistic scenario (human dispatchers are human and make errors), leading a passenger train with a timetable stop in a station to a freight track without platform is punishing the train driver with points deduction due to a missed stop. While the train driver has no control over where he goes... Bug: do not deduct points from train driver if wrongly routed. Routing is task of dispatcher. He should get points deducted for "wrong operation". Ok, I know... I admit.. I'm biased... worked too much as a driver...

not sure if intended, as it does happen in real life that dispatcher panels are oriented 180 degrees wrong: in Olszamowice, if a train passes by outside left to right, on the panel it moves from right to left. This might be confusing for a user. As said: this does occur in rare situation in real life too and is caused by the signal box being planned out at 100% and after that planning some bright person thinks to have to move the signal box to another location and the panel ending up the wrong way around.

yes, in the Netherlands they do those loop routes. and indeed for redundancy reasons. They really avoid them in USA and Canada. Just to save money. and hey, you're in my old home station! Say "Hi!" on the tower from me! I know that station in all details, all steps... 😉

so a train driver cannot get into signal box, and a dispatcher cannot get into a cab with a driver? As that would somehow make sense to prevent interference. (ah, they should do that in real life too... I've got my stories)