TrainController Gold and Silver - Freiwald Software

If several engines are running as a multiple unit, then the power of each engine is added
to the total power of the multiple unit. Since the total power is higher than the individual
power of each particular engine the multiple unit is able to accelerate faster and to
run with a certain train tonnage at a higher maximum speed.
The time needed to accelerate or decelerate an engine or train set is additionally scaled
and shortened using the scale factor of the Railroad Clock. If for example the scale factor
of the clock is 10, then the calculated times are shortened to the tenth part. Even this
shortening, however, results in timing, which is often found too slow. For this reason it
is possible to adjust the inertia of each engine individually. In this way it is possible to
accelerate or decelerate an engine without inertia or with the inertia of a real engine.
Any setting between these extreme cases can be selected. It is also possible to adjust the
inertia for acceleration and deceleration separately (see Diagram 74).
Do not be concerned if this sounds too complicated - especially in the beginning. For
each engine which is created TrainController assumes default settings for power,
train tonnage and momentum. You are not required to set it. The default values result in
a moderate behavior for acceleration and deceleration which can be adjusted with the
inertia as desired. The additional features discussed in this section are only needed if
you want to simulate the behavior of real trains.
11.5 Coal, Water and Diesel
You can specify the type of each engine. This attribute describes how the engine is powered.
Possible choices are steam engine, diesel engine or electric engine.
Using this engine type TrainController calculates the consumption of coal, oil, water
or diesel, if desired. It is possible to specify the capacity and the consumption per
100 miles of coal, oil, diesel or water.
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