Air Brakes

[whashj0]

When I uncouple from cars that I have connected the gladhands on, there is no problems. Come upon cars that come in from the interchange and separate them, I have to bleed the brake systems on every car, whether I connect the engine with the cars by the gladhands, or not. How do I break up a long string of cars without having to bleed the brake system on every car? Seems like a lot of work as train lengths get longer as the game progresses.

[Knsgf]

Shift-click on gladhands where you want to separate cars first. Then uncouple.

[TheLostPenguin]

Originally posted by Knsgf:

Shift-click on gladhands where you want to separate cars first. Then uncouple.

That would work, but also just uncoupling the wagons manually by closing the valves then separating the gladhands as you would any other time should as well, that's how I always do it and have no issues with then blowing the brakes off on interchanges wagons.
This of course assumes that you are going to connect the loco so you can use the airbrakes, if you don't want to bother perhaps because you want to work a couple of wagons loose locally then you'll have to bleed each one manually since they get dropped off with the brakes applied as well as having several handbrakes set.

[Bruder Tac]

I don't know if I get your problem.
You could dropp off the cars with full charged air lines, zero air brakes and set only the hand brakes.
If you need to move them around, divide them or what ever it's easy. If you don't engage the gladhands the car is free rolling. If you want to hook some together and send them on their way, no long air line charging.

And if you Shift+Click on a closed coupler, the valves will close automatically and you can pull apart the gladhands.

[whashj0]

Originally posted by Knsgf:

Shift-click on gladhands where you want to separate cars first. Then uncouple.

Sorry I took so long to reply and say "Thank You!" for your answer. If I had paid attention to the tutorial I would have seen that. Thank You, again!