Fueling America Part 1

[artimrj]

Had a strange thing happen after I loaded all t hose coal cars. I turned off the auto pilot for loading the coal and put on the brakes to stop. Ran the length of the train to set the switch so I could connect to the front end. Ran back to my engine so I could connect the formation to the front. Released the brakes AUTO and INDY, bailed off. Put it in notch 2 and just sat there reving the engine. Dumped it to notch 8 and still just sat with the engine screaming. It moved slightly, I get to tighten up the slack and that was it. About this time I noticed the brake pipe was still at 60. Duh??? I applied the brakes again to Full Service and then released them. This time the brake pipe was moving and I was able to move the train on notch 2.

After I connected to the front half of the main train I got some instructions as to what I was doing next. In those instructions it said I would have to wait for 5 minutes for the brake pipe to be where it should. This is the first time I saw this info. 5 minutes to get air back? Wondering if that is what is happening to a lot of people who say they can't get it going?

[BNSFdude]

Air brakes should start immediately releasing as soon as there is a local increase of about 1.5 psi in the control valve of each car. You should be able to start pulling rather quickly after release, but the flow rate would still be quite high..

I just got done running BNSFs Corys simulator yesterday afternoon for my yearly eval, and jumping to a run today on TSW made part of my head cave in.