Railworks America

I haven't found it on either the Action Menu or the Assist Layer, nor seems it mapped to a button.

W/o sand I'll never het that train started ....

Just dump it on top?

(but not much)

Back to serious: there is a chance the game might be further dumbed down come the XBOX.

A controller only has so much buttons, and Konsole Kiddies don't know much about driving 'real' trains, as opposed to cars, arcade style.

Check out page 59 in the TS manual. Try the action menu. Haven't used my 360 controller for 6 months.

I have checked the Actions Menu, but there is no sanding button on there.
A lot of functions appear to be missing, like firing steam locomotives.
Unless the menu is staggered, I don't think so however.

RailDriver is probably unsupported by the Konsole, and RD's general future seems quite bleek. Only OR and Run8 support it fully.

I am away from my Railworks, so cannot read the manual right now. railsimulator.com's domain is unreachable at work. Edit: here is a copy available: http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/24010/manuals/TS2015_User_Guide.pdf?t=1439456512

It makes me wonder where the future developments of the game will lead to.
If the Konsole market is deemed more important/profitable than the PC market, and the User Interface of the Konsole remains constrained and limited to arcade functions, how will that work out for actual train-like simulation of the rail vehicles in the PC version?

I will be following the XBOX development with interest. Inside the Box there is a precisely specified PC like computer, right?

As far as I know yes.

Sent DTG and asked that question and the reply was, "These can be accessed from the context (F1) menu" whatever that means.

lol they obviously did not understand the question then.

I would think that d-pad up or down would be good for sand because I don't think they're used for anything else. D-pad left is for wipers and right is for cycling selected brake lever. Unfortunately you would have to use a utility like Xpadder to emulate an 'x' keypress on either of those Xbox d-pad controls.

Perhaps DTG are using Asians on there new support helpdesk now.