Problems I found with the snow plow.

[AWWW]

One I like the snow plow it's nice to have something to actually helps deal with the snow. But I end up finding a few problems with it. It tends to derail too often. Heck just a few minutes ago I tried driving it up a hill a steady 2.5. And it derails when my locomotive wasn't even going fast to cause it to derail. And it even derails if I'm moving at a at full regulator and full draw bar. The snow plow is not meant to fall off the tracks that easily. I know I know snow plows. And snow plows can't not get derailed because of it being pushed up a hill. So please fix the snow plow. And if I remember correctly snow plows have the weight capacity of one and a half of a class 70. The snow plow should be that easy to derail. Please fix it so it won't derail again.

[colleenchristy1028]

the snow plow would incres your speed in real life beasce it is geting the snow of the tracks so the engige can run better.

[Kitsune Dawn]

Origineel geplaatst door Zauberbratsche:

What kind of engine would realistically push the plow? The current lineup doesn't have anything that looks very plausible. Porters are too small. All non-geared locos have cow catchers with long bar couplers that would surely bend or break. Geared locos... too slow to get adequate momentum for plowing? It seems like the class 48 0-6-0 makes the most sense...? Also, IRL, would all the pushing effort be done through the coupler? Seems like an incredible amount of stress on a single point.

Another question: I've seen that there is some kind of speed boost if you use a plow. Is this just some (rather odd) game feature? I mean, there is no reason that IRL a plow would boost your speed, right? I would think that pushing a heavy plow would only slow you down.

Anything the railroad had handy at the time. Usually two or three locomotives tied in behind it. The wedge plow is more the type you use to deal with drifts of 4 or 5 feet deep. If you don't push through that with one hit, then you back up some, and take another run at it.

You would be surprised, but the steel of that cowcatcher link, would take quite a bit of punishment before it would bend or break. Really it comes down to a case of what is more likely to give? A.) A drift of snow four or five feet deep, or B.) A wrought iron rod about three inches in diameter?

[Barnard_Star]

Origineel geplaatst door RedPanda133:

45 deggrecrossovers dont work with the plow

Ya just found the same thing. The Snow Plow and 45 degree crossover does not play well. my plow yeeted it self off into the woods.

[colleenchristy1028]

lol

[Xatikitk]

Origineel geplaatst door Barnard_Star:

Origineel geplaatst door RedPanda133:

45 deggrecrossovers dont work with the plow

Ya just found the same thing. The Snow Plow and 45 degree crossover does not play well. my plow yeeted it self off into the woods.

I found that if you go slow to a 90 degree crossover that the snow plow acts like it hit a wall and you can not continue on to the crossover.