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| Self-Rectified... 07/02/2015 at 09:06 #68963 | |
kbarber
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One possible variation for the points & TC failures would be to include a few (probably a very few) that self-rectify. I've more than once had a train leave a track down behind it, talk a following train past a signal then the track clears after it passes. Likewise sometimes when I couldn't get detection for one direction on a set of points (only happens, of course, if the direction that still detects can be used for the approaching train). As a sadistic refinement :evil: although this could happen to just about any TC or points, there were some places where a particular item was known for it, a regular nightmare for both bobby and S&T, as the latter tried to chase out a stubborn intermittent. If that feature was going to be included, perhaps it would be best on a 'per game' basis rather than permanently existing in a sim. (I'm not sure we would have the information on which piece of equipment behaved like that anyway, unless a sim was being coded by someone who worked it in real life.) Probably the most infuriating of these was a particular track at North Pole, long before Victora took over. It was in advance of the up home from Mitre Bridge and formed part of the block controls, which were themselves peculiar (Western Region installed) - TCs within the clearing point dropped the needle to 'Normal' rather than holding it over to 'Train on Line'. This particular track only ever seemed to give trouble on nights. Typical experience was to be sitting reading between trains when there was a soft 'clunk' from beneath. On looking at the diagram the track would be down. At first I would get on to the Mitre and tell him (warning him it was causing a block failure). As time went on I didn't bother disturbing him until he offered me a train. In the end I didn't even bother looking at the diagram, I just noted the time so I could put it in the train register when I next had something to write. Very occasionally it would pick up again, so I didn't need to bother recording it at all (very naughty but I was young & foolish in those days), but that was rare. So, with the track down, the next train would be worked by bell only (Reg 25(a)(iii) as it then was). And inevitably, as it passed, the track cleared. So I would dutifully record it and tell the Mitre we were back to normal working, then settle down again with my book. And a little while later there would be a soft 'clunk' from beneath... In the end, they had to do a complete rewire of the whole box to sort it! Log in to reply |
| Self-Rectified... 07/02/2015 at 10:19 #68968 | |
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Forest Pines
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If you want to be really nasty...simulate a rock salt train on a rainy day leaving every track it travels over down!
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| Self-Rectified... 07/02/2015 at 14:30 #68977 | |
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Late Turn
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At the other extreme, how about a points failure which is allowed to self-rectify simply by pulling the route that you're trying to set then swinging them across and back again?
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