SkittleKicks Plays Posted 16 hours ago Posted 16 hours ago (edited) One thing I noticed early on in SimRail when I first played the demo was there is no way to apply handbrakes to consists during coupling. What I mean is setting the handbrakes so that they do not move when trying to couple to them. It's bad enough these trains all have bumpers that act like a spring board ricocheting the loco backward and shoving the consist forward. This happens at 1 MPH. The only handbrake we can even control is in the locos. In the US depending on the length of the consist one or more handbrakes are set to prevent movement in a yard. Granted in the US our trains use knuckle couplers which instantly grab and temporarily hold until the locking pin is put in place. This is accomplished by a 3 to 5 MPH "slam" into the car. This is a big safety thing. You can waste so much time trying to connect to consists (and I have) because we can't lock consist handbrakes. I know that in Derail Valley the same types of coupling system is used as in SimRail, but in that game you can turn the handbrakes to secure them. Edited 16 hours ago by SkittleKicks Plays Minor grammer edit 1
jeroezie Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago The pneumatic brake is set on the wahons when they spawn in, so they are not going to roll away. The easy way to couple, is to stop just short of the wagons and try to apply very littele power. If you time it rigt, you can set the direct aur brake lightly, just before you actually hit the wagons, to prevent you from rolling back. With real locomotives, this push back happens too. Modern rolling stock tends to have tbis effect more.
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