Open Rails problem reported at Elvas Tower

rfranzosa

There was a problem reported over at Elvas Tower affecting some of our engines, particularly E-units, and Alco cab units. The issue is that these diesel locomotives appear in OR as electrics.

This issue was tracked down to an error in the coupler section.

The parameter:

"CouplingHasRigidConnection ( 1 )"

appears as:

"Coupling HasRigidConection ( 1 )"

This impacts both BLW and BLW/ZT sets.

The BLW/ZT sets impacted are:

I have already uploaded patches for the first three. If you use MSTS only, no problem. If you want to make your own fixes, also fine.

I hope to have the rest of the patches done over the next few days.

Rick

rfranzosa · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:46 pm Post subject:

All patches have been uploaded for the BLW/ZT sets.

cr-stagg · Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 6

More ENGs with the problem have been identified.
BLW_D&H_PA1
BLW_PA1_EL
BLW_ZT_FA1_ERIEM
BLW_ZT_FA1_LNEM
SP E unit Daylight set Eunits and PAs
BLW_PA2_SP units

FYI if you have the program Search and Replace from Funduc it is very easy to fix this. Just point S&R to your Trainset folder, set filter to *.eng, set Search for "Coupling HasRigidConection" and set Replace to "CouplingHasRigidConection"

rfranzosa · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:05 am Post subject:

Charles,

Correct. Some of those are from Gaetan's sets. He will address them shortly, we traded emails this morning.

The FAs (BLW_ZT_FA1_ERIEM, BLW_ZT_FA1_LNEM) were corrected in the Maybrook patch issued last night.

Thanks

Rick