GP38 and the phantom switch operator | Train Sim World 2020 Peninsula Corridor

Picking up from where we left off (where else would you pick up from?) I'm endeavoring to complete my minor shunting route at some point before the end of time. This would be made simpler if the automatic setting of points/switches were in any way consistent. They're not consistent. This is Train Sim World 2020 on the Peninsula Corridor.
Bias notice: I do part time work for Dovetail Games in the field of player research. As such you can disregard every critical statement I make about this software, because you cannot trust a word of it.
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(*) - Today's secret: Switch issues were probably my fault.

[@DoRC]

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

[@MasterRons177]

Train gate.

[@MrHnnnnnnnnng]

"You can flip the doo-dah from the orbital bombardment map." Thank you for giving me the only term I'll use for the switch view ever.

[@bob_._.]

22:23 Sorry Col, but you didn't throw the switch... you walked up to it and kicked at it, but didn't actually make contact.

[@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox]

It's amazing Colonel invented a whole new non-existent character and carries on with it till the end instead of realizing he made a mistake the first time at the switch.

[@eugeniymeshch]

EOTD is End of Train Device. You were expected to change to that locomotive on the way back.

[@ianpilkington2037]

Here we go, more shenanigans to tickle your biscuits!😂😂

[@talis84]

EOTD is "End of Train Device" it is a lighted marker (the red flashing light) and pressure regulator for the train bake system's air hoses. When you "open" the EOTD, you release the pressure on the lines and set the brakes.

[@aircooledorion]

well, another display of train driverish on the button control, plus a heady helping of button fiddling whilst expecting points man to sort out just what the colonel intends We can all learn from this display of ultimate professionalism. Another well-crafted episode

[@MrSh4973]

Well sir, this feature length video has caused me to tickle too many biscuits and now I feel a tad full.

[@WG55]

This episode is like the movie _Cool Hand Luke_ when the guards break Luke's sanity by making him repeatedly dig a hole, fill it in, and then dig it out again.

[@philmaggiacomo]

Does seem kind of annoying that they went from "Click to switch the switches/points" to "Click-and-drag to switch" between versions. I offer this in partial defense of your missing the cars.

[@Trigzd]

Since you miss the ‘out of the window view’ from the old train simulator, you can gain the ‘out of the window view’ by using the left and right arrow keys when sat in the drivers chair 😉 (I also just found this out myself because they don’t seem to advertise this)! All the same, love your channel and have for years!

[@Bobbingtonn]

What about the passenger train you tried hijacking, we should've checked on it 😐

[@KashouWannabe]

I blame the Colonel for getting me wanting to reinstall TSW. My net is shoddy at best of times but is way down to about 200kb/s right now. Only wanted some US stuff so installed base and the NEC DLC, ignoring my owned Somerset, GWR and Rapid Transit. Thing is, game crashes when I choose a module to play ingame. Can't even goto the website ingame, just tinker on the Options screen. PC should be all up to date and ship shape, and other UE4 games are fine, just TSW. Reinstalling just the CSX module right now, nothing else. Should take 9 hours + for 4.4gb if I watch videos at the same time. Heh. Anyone else having a UE crash to desktop issue on selecting which module to play? If CSX doesn't work on its own I'll have to install all my other DLC, at least I can try it out in a few days time.

[@MrHnnnnnnnnng]

Ah, that's what they don't tell you. It's not like RailWorks, it's either all or nothing because GWR, CSX, Rapid Transit, and NEC are all parts of the base game.

[@KashouWannabe]

@Zuri Did that twice, nothing amiss. =)

[@KashouWannabe]

@@MrHnnnnnnnnng I did consider that. I got the game when it was in EA so I got GWR and Rapid Transit incrementally, but those three made up the base 1.0 package, right? I'm reinstalling JUST the CSX for now, but I think its gotta be all or nothing.

[@MrHnnnnnnnnng]

@@KashouWannabe It's definitely all or nothing, I've never driven rapid transit for any amount of time because of the absolutely shit antialiasing making it impossible to read the SIFA and PZB and it outright refused to start. I think they literally mix and match a lot of the assets.

[@KashouWannabe]

@Zuri Win 8. 1 GTX 970 4GB, i7 4790k 4ghz, 16GB DDR3 ram, about 90 hours in it and used to run the game at a high/ultra hybrid at 1080p. As stated here, its probably a case that GWR and RT have become integral parts of the base game now. I'll just have to bite the bullet and get it downloaded over the next few days.

[@allgaming4045]

Colonial your channel is so underrated keep up the great work

[@colonelfailure]

Thank you!

[@eugeniymeshch]

You've got two locomotives to be able to drive back and see where you are driving.

[@csmart6444]

That made me laugh , completely missing the formation. Slowing down and preparing to nudge the formation to perfection and you drive right past it! hahaha

[@DSchrubbe]

A rodeo clown on the railroad. A railrodeo clown perhaps?

[@BobbyBobby-gl5hk]

I could not stop laughing!

[@Lee-sc6jv]

Colonel, is that you

[@DoctorMagdaki]

Every minute I keep wondering if you'll turn the bell off. It is like the sidewalk challenge except more ringy. And as I type this comment you literally turned it off... and the back on. Lol

[@animaltvi9515]

So only one of us didn't notice the loco was on a completely different track to the wagons. Unfortunately it was the driver .. stop that bloody bell. Guess the film ?

[@ptsdpamphletcompany5890]

I really wanted him to run off the end of the tracks at full speed.

[@vinylrabbit7295]

This is what the second seat is for in a train, the conductor does all the unhooking and manipulating...of course in TSW the one time you need a conductor you don't have one. All the rest of the time you have this idiot staring at you while you drive the train. Now take them all back to SFS LOL I almost fell out of my chair laughing. You appear to have missed.

[@ravenwinger1]

Conductor in train when it's just a ride along. Disappears when there's work to be done: OF COURSE, it's a Union job!

[@TheBrazyCastard]

trys to couple back to the hoppers then you realise ure on the wrong track never laughts sooo much keep up the good work colonel !!!1 love it

[@Mass_hole508]

Oi Colonel did you ever consider getting a train sim controller thing if authenticity is what your looking for?

[@bjarnenilsson80]

This cenario misses a fev things, it shuld asked you to switch the driving end of the loco

[@arjunsatheesh7609]

31:07 - "If I could sit down, it would be easier." 31:08 ' [E] - Sit in Engineer's chair' flashes in the middle of the screen Just Colonel Failure things....

[@Tez_Thorn1405]

Awesome entertainment as usual good sir

[@chrisniemann4012]

Love watching the TSW videos...but the thing i like most is you faffing around with the levers in the 'cockpit'...would like less using the keyboard and more faffing...

[@2CraftySeniors]

Colonel just loves to back a train up for miles. :) Well, the good thing is, you weren't driving passengers who complain about being late.

[@philmaggiacomo]

I wish that, for these types of shunting ops (if not this one especially), that it allowed for more freedom. Like, in the CSX Heavy Haul scenarios, there're 2 scenarios (forming steel, and err, another) where you have to collect up a bunch of groups of cars/engines into a single train. Sadly, you can't just grab a bunch, grab another bunch, and then couple to the final train, even if they'd be in the exact same order as when you do it the way they want (go here, couple, go here, couple, decouple, repeat).

[@DWtrainsNZ]

Ahh your learning. If the point's are set wrong it's always the signaller's fault! 😆

[@rolvaagthorsen]

Colonel, if you were really running a train. You would be the most flipping in shape operator ever. You just wander around willey-nilley.

[@MueedVI]

Now this is called donkey work!

[@Ferlius93]

"Orbital bombardment map" ahahahahahahaha

[@gregburrell6244]

I won't touch this game until I can order a conductor around! F getting out my chair every time!

[@bjarnenilsson80]

Credit duely given :)

[@civishamburgum1234]

Since nor of the units is a slug, I recon, the usage of two locomotives is sot there is a cab in every direction.

[@majordisappointment8692]

Tickle you biscuits on the other loco Col. Failure.....thanks still lol.

[@MrChrispy360]

you made me buy TS2019, but now im stuck i done some career scenarious but im not getting XP and its saying i havent completed them.... why is this?

[@robertvirginiabeach]

TS and TSW have different scoring systems. TS starts with points and deducts for infractions like speeding and tardiness at objectives like stopping at a station. TS also gets pretty particular about the location where a stop is made. If you're really close to the scheduled time TS might give a few hundred points back at a stop. You might end up deep in the hole by the time you finish an assignment. I haven't seen TSW deduct points. It merely withholds points for things like speeding or missing the scheduled stop times. It will stop/fail a scenario promptly for things like derailing or passing a red signal.

[@paulhill8224]

Great video

[@helgelarsen4850]

I'm sure there's a way/knob to change what should be the lead loco. If you look at the upper right knob in the upper panel at the rear of cab. (at timestamp 35:15 in the vid) Keep the funny and good vids comming. Love it.

[@dsflyerds]

That knob is to change the headlight configuration it has nothing to do with the controlling unit.

[@helgelarsen4850]

@@dsflyerds Yes, you are correct. I didn.t read all the text surrounding the knob. But still, I would believe there is a way to switch controller location on a multiunit loco.

[@robertvirginiabeach]

@@helgelarsen4850 I'm not completely certain but I believe that's controlled by a switch under the independent brake.

[@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox]

Shouldn't he take the handle from the reverser and take it to the other loco? Also I'm pretty sure he was allowed to seat in the second cabin, the prompt flashes there for a few milliseconds but the Colonel misses it, as is classic.

[@dsflyerds]

@@robertvirginiabeach That switch controls the break valve it also does not have anything to do with the taking control of the locomotive.

[@Rel1369]

For the last few videos, the music playing while you talk to camera at the end,is very loud and makes it hard to hear you. I know some will say that is a good thing but I would actually like to hear what you say since you say it so well.

[@colonelfailure]

Thanks. I'll twiddle some knobs accordingly.

[@Rel1369]

@@colonelfailure That would be fantastic. It's an activity you love so much.

[@philtremble4750]

Hey Colonel Here in the USA the EOTD is also called a F.R.E.D. (FLASHING RED END DEVISE)

[@PowerTrain611]

Actually, it's called either an EOTD (End of Train Device (WITH A C!)) Or a FRED (Flashing REAR End Device(AGAIN, WITH A C!))

[@philtremble4750]

@@PowerTrain611 Flashing RED end device is what I was told it was by the RailRoad crews that I use to transport to and from their trains, so went with that....

[@PowerTrain611]

@@philtremble4750 You may have misheard them.

[@jessicam.4148]

watching this while on a train

[@drac124]

You have a lot of patience!

[@CreatureOfTheVoid]

I don't know if you missed that on purpose, but I just couldn't help but laugh as you looked forward and only saw empty track and yet never noticed lmao

[@williambrady12x13]

me first!

[@talis84]

Tea break? meters? what are these foreign things? This is America man! Coffee and feet.

[@animaltvi9515]

Nope. Tea and feet.

[@2CraftySeniors]

@@animaltvi9515 Tea and put your feet up. ;)

[@carolinepage6058]

Y does he leave the bell on it’s really f ing annoying Edit: I just got to the part he turns it off

[@hvymtal8566]

Low speed maneuvers in a yard=bell on. It is annoying, but knowing unequivocally that the train is in operation prevents accidents

[@carolinepage6058]

hvymtal I’m from Britain and in Britain we don’t have the bell because we have common sense and don’t walk around near moving trains

[@hvymtal8566]

@@carolinepage6058 Stuff your nationalist "my country's people are better than your country's people" nonsense. I gave you an answer to your question from a real world perspective, there's no need to run a national brain-measuring contest because you didn't like my answer

[@carolinepage6058]

hvymtal no I except ur answer but it’s just u don’t need it if you have a brain e.g. any country that’s not the usa

[@hvymtal8566]

"If you have a brain" I'm just going to let the contrast between my writing and yours speak for me.