SimRail - The Railway Simulator #1 Let's Learn to Break, I MEAN DRIVE, Drive a Freight Train

[@traxx5612]

After throttle position of 29 you can add up to 1200 as 2 motors are working, and also, the shunt regulator only works in 28 and 43

[@Blo0dyMustard]

Some tips for EU07/EP07 locomotives like on this video After throttle 28 you can add power up to 1200 amps, and if you reach the max throttle of 43 you can add more power by adding the shunt regulator. The shunt regulator is effective in adding power on notch 43, below that it only add wee bit of power Try to stay on notch 28 or 43 when you're just chillin to let the locomotive to calm down and just drive, cuz I've been told by other players that if the engineer keep driving on notch 1-27 or 29-42 in real life the loco will break down. If you exceeded the 600 amps on notch 1-27, you have "overloaded" the loco and the loco will stall. If this happen: 1. Put all the throttle and shunting regulator back to 0 2. Look for a green button called "Unlock traction motors overload relay" and press it once 3. Restart the acceleration process as usual Regarding the brake, put it on "Running" while driving, put it on "Fill" when you want to release the brake faster or cold starting the loco to fill the main reservoir. The "Initial" braking position is quite strong if you want to shave some speed. After "Initial", the braking is just like SD40's brake, adding pressures with no "notch", you have to learn it to feel the braking power, but usually the AI just went straight into 16 brake pressure on the last second to really slam the train into a red light or speed zones Oh yea, about the horn signal. If you see double white triangles with a car or a truck drawing, just like on 27:28, that's the whistle/horn sign, you get 50 points if you blow the horn before or after the sign

[@ThatMateoGuy]

I see, that's all good to know. Thanks!

[@Angelle1986]

When should we sound the horn?! What indications are we looking for??

[@ThatMateoGuy]

There are whistle posts that look like triangles with a car or truck inside them (like the one at 27:28 and 18:45).

[@yvesd_fr1810]

@@ThatMateoGuy Plus the sign R in a triangle too