Railworks America

At the start of my scenario I'm driving a steam loco that I want to add water to about 1 miles from the starting point.
My train doesn't take on water. I think it's because it is already full of water.

How do I set the starting value of the water so it actually needs water? I want the coal to stay full.

Thanks for any help
Dave

Open scenario editor double click on the tender a fly out will appear upper right hand corner click on it pin it and change the water level to your desired amount.

That's correct, when you place an engine in scenario the fuel tank (diesel, water, coal) is set by default to 100%. Clicking in the diesel engine or tender (not attached to other vehicles yet) will open a flyout on right upper corner with fuel settings in increments of 10%. If you wanna set the water exactly (or enough) to just reach the water station (say less than 10%) you can edit the amount of water (or coal) with RW Tools in this command line of the engine section in related scenario.bin file:

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                  <cCargoComponent d:id="1808202848">
                     <IsPreLoaded d:type="cDeltaString">eTrue</IsPreLoaded>
                     <InitialLevel>
                        <e d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000000088B340" d:precision="string">5000</e>
                     </InitialLevel>
                  </cCargoComponent>


The example above is of a diesel engine with 5000 gallons (full loaded) when scenario starts.

Cheers,
Doc.

At least in the Big Boy's tender I just noticed that it's loaded by default with 68% of water and 100% of coal. The settings for tenders are these:

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                  <cCargoComponent d:id="1108581792">
                     <IsPreLoaded d:type="cDeltaString">eFalse</IsPreLoaded>
                     <InitialLevel>
                        <e d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="000000000030B140" d:precision="string">220</e>
                        <e d:type="sFloat32" d:alt_encoding="0000000000001E40" d:precision="string">1.5</e>
                     </InitialLevel>
                  </cCargoComponent>


In the example I've set tender's water to 1% (220) and coal to 1% (1.5).

Doc.

Thanks for the information guys It's something I would have never though of.

Dave