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mworkman99 Jan 16, 2021 @ 10:28am
Can't re-rail car.
So I was drifting into Food Factory & Town hauling a gasoline load of 17 cars weighing 748 tons, driving a 3-unit diesel lashup. The trip from Harbor and Town went fine until I started crossing the bridge going into town, with light throttle applied going about 20 KM/HR. Then there was what seemed to be an emergency brake application, but no reduction in brake pipe air was noticed, and my train stalled. Upon further investigation, I found the 8th car of the consist derailed, with brake connections (and couplings) intact. No problem, I thought, I've got $46G in the wallet, I'll re-rail it and continue on. But I can't. I can highlight the car to be re-railed, but not the track, and the handset, although it gives me a price to re-rail ($10G), only lets me cancel the operation and go back to the "Highlight the car to be re-railed" start screen. Any ideas? Is it because the derailed car is on a bridge? I'd rather not throw this job in the trash, I've got a fair amount of time invested in it.
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boris.glevrk Jan 17, 2021 @ 1:06am 
That's usually because the gap between the 7th car and the 9th is too short, and the system doesn't allow you to put car #8 back.

This has been a *huge* issue for the SH282 tender because the hit box of the tender and the engine is basically overlapped on normal operation. However, this can also happen when derailment happened in an area of high(er) train compression, such as in a curve or in a braking section.

To solve this, disconnect both sides of the derailed car and pull one side of the train forward/backwards, depending on, well, which side is feasible to do this. This would create a bigger space to let you re-rail the derailed car. After that you can close the gap again and re-connect the cars. Make sure you actually connect all of them. I have once forgot to re-connect my train and ran off with just my locomotive and it didn't went well.
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GHKtruc Jan 17, 2021 @ 4:02am 
What I'd do is disconnect the rear part of the train, drag the derailed car forward, make sure it's not on a switch, decouple it and move the train forward. Re-rail and re-attach
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boris.glevrk Jan 17, 2021 @ 4:06am 
Originally posted by GHKtruc:
What I'd do is disconnect the rear part of the train, drag the derailed car forward, make sure it's not on a switch, decouple it and move the train forward. Re-rail and re-attach
Personally I don't have any successful experience in starting a derailed car... no idea how others did it...
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