SP at Donner Pass route

[Rob]

Beautiful engines on a beautiful route





Rob

[Gaetan]

Nice shots Rob, have you post on train-sim ?

Gaetan

[Rob]

Not immediately, but I did now.

Rob

[Gaetan]

Thanks

Have you try the Cascade Club Triple unit ?

Gaetan

[Rob]

Yes, I did. Splendid how you made the cushings (don't know if this is the right word for it) between the wagons.

Rob

[Gaetan]

if you speak about the diaphram is a small wagon place between the two cars
and setup the size in wag file for smaller of the real size with that the
front and rear wagons on each side of this small car come inside the diaphram car

Hope i explain well

Gaetan

[GaryG]

Hello Rob and other members,

One thing you can do with the Diaphram is add an inside view so you're standing in the middle (or so). You can then look in either direction and see a different car in each direction.

What's really interesting, on a curve the diaphram rotates separately from both cars, splitting the difference of the joint angle (it is more or less following the angle of the truck it's above).

Gaetan made (and adjusted it so its a bit narrower, lower at the top and higher at the bottom) so it slides into the open ends of both cars it's attached to.

I changed it to use a custom Bar coupler so it can't be uncoupled easily. One shortcoming is the MSTS Consist Editor appears to ignore the coupler type so you could put a diaphram anywhere, even at the wrong end of a car or even incorrectly between regular cars. Oh well, it's just another MSTS to put up with.

In the provided Lark consist (with MSTSbin) enter car 0-9, the Kitchen car and watch the two cars ahead move in curves and grade changes. For anyone not aware, MSTSbin allows you to use the F9 popup to select where the "5" view will move you to. Click on a car with lighted windows in the "F9" popup and the "5" view will move you to the inside view of that car. If there's no inside view, the windows are dark.

GaryG