steamman wrote:Ok this is kind of a a dumb question, and I'm probably missing the obvious somewhere, but... How do you take on coal and water in the Connie? I've pulled up to the coaling tower and/or the water stanchion, but I can't get it to load... 'T' obviously isn't going to do it 'cause that controls the roof hatch, Ive tried a few other letters, I've clicked on the icon with the mouse. But there is no joy in Mudville.Just can't get it to load up. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.
It's the usual T key. I'd already assigned T to the hatch when it came time to do the tender, and as I'd practically run out of keys by then, I decided it wouldn't do any harm to have the same key do two things.
I don't know if anyone else is experiencing the same thing or not. I'm wondering if you (or I) can change the letter of that engine roof hatch to something else, just to see if that solves the problem? Thanks
Anyway I'm going to run it on a different route just on the outside chance... Although I have my doubts that's it, but I'll try anything once. Yes I have other steam locos, and wasn't having any problems, but I'm going to try running one again just to see if anythings changed.
So, either the problem decided to clear itself up, or the Connie doesn't like the default water tank and coaling tower for some reason, or there's something screwy in the original route. I'm going to do some more fiddling around and see what happens. If I have to I'll go into the editor in the original route and change out the water and coal, no biggie. Either way I'm glad it works, 'cause really I like running this engine. I like anything where the valves, switches, bells, whistles actually simulate doing something rather than just sitting there and looking pretty.. Keeps ya busy, keeps ya thinkin'. 
Anyway, it works fine with the towers on the Horseshoe Curve, if you want to try it out there.