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Stunning rendition.
On the Bossman Games black Five, I discovered that pressing "O" and "L" gradually lets water into the boiler, without having much effect on the boiler pressure. The water fills very slightly more slowly than it gets used up, so eventually (in a long run), you'd need to press "I" and "K" as well to speed up the flow of water.
I wonder if that might work on this model as well (assuming its principles are similar)?
BMG RMN (and RMN in real life) uses two live steam injectors.
In general terms exhaust injector usually uses smaler delivery cone than live steam injector. Also injector(s) should be capable to deliver twice as much water than is consumed by boiler according to clever books from my library.
As robmelro writes (quote): (...)and my driver would kill me if i allowed the pressure to drop to the crap exibited in this game (...) (end quote)
Honestly I have strong reservations to RMN simulation model (well I know another armchair theoretitian) but I have found an article from OVS Bulleid about Unrebuild Merchant Navy engines with several pages of technical data and used given values to calculate theoretical steam output (lbs/hour and max indicated HP) I have found that current version steams about 30% more and almost 40% more than engine put on test bank in Crewe in the 50.
Also there is trouble with steam usage by injector scaler (basicly x*basic steam useage) if FPS drops under 17 it could be fixed in two ways: simple lower value of steam useage scaler or comlicated one write script to circumvent core calculations. I do not know how big are delivery cones on RMN locomotives but definately bigger than #11, because I do not believe that any steam engine is driven with almost permanently injectors open.
Jack
I don't have it, so I appreciate this is a bit of an unqualified opinion - but steam engines can be tricky to drive...I've seen a lot of posts where people are adamant there are bugs with locos when it's more a case of not knowing what's needed to get the best from that loco. Take for example the Falmouth 57xx - you will find numerous posts on here and on youtube stating authoritively it's underpowered, so much so that the scenarios are impossible to complete. Having completed all the scenarios (other than the one that's broken for other reasons) that's not the case....however the Falmouth 57xx develops power a little differently from other locos, too much regulator, too high a cut off and pressure dies. I don't know that you're wrong and there isn't a bug, but it might be more of a case of working out what it needs to get the power out of it......every steam loco on TS seems a little different after all.
I have an idea your problem may be caused by the way stoking the fire works on Bossman Games steam locomotives.
Clicking the "stoke fire" button on the F4 HUD does not actually do anything on BMG locomotives... you have to press Ctrl+R to turn on the automatic fireman, and click the stoke fire icon as well.
Check the amount of coal that's shown on the fire icon on the F4 HUD. If it's not going down, that's a sure sign that the fire isn't actually being stoked. You can also check this on the F5 display, by looking at the "fire mass" indicator. If it's going down, it means the fire either isn't being stoked, or can't keep up with the regulator/reverser settings you've chosen.
Maybe using the F5 overlay will help to see what's going on in the boiler, it could also be fiddling about with the regulator/reverser will eventually lead you to the balance where the locomotive can steam well.
I often do that with other locomotives, keeping an eye on steam generation vs. steam usage, I can find the reverser/regulator settings that keep the boiler steady.
Use f5 and turn auto off...
The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway is set in the steam era, and it is historically a Southern and LMS shared route.
Also there are workshop scenarios for the Portsmouth Line that have steam, such as the ones by Not.Silent
The Bluebell Railway route is also worth a look (I think it's on Steam Sounds Supreme).
Also I know the Southern S15 has some scenarios set on the WSR.
I completely forgot about the Somerset & Dorset Railway and actually I own that route, too haha.
I'll take a look at the others you mentioned, as well. Hopefully though someday we may get a really good payware southern region steam route, if we get one that's as high quality as the recent SSS Stainmore route that would be fantastic.