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Let's Play Train Simulator 2016 - Hamburg Hanover, BR294

1,418 views · Published 20 June 2016 · 42:28 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: MattPlaysTV · 2016 · Gaming

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This scenario is Shunting of the Snow Day by ron_fu-ta.  I had some difficulties figuring out what was requested here as the signalling and despatching wasn't clear what I was supposed to do. The German / English language barrier didn't help.  Turned out that the author had put some extra instructions on the Steam workshop page that i'd missed - however the root cause was down to an error in the scenario.

When I edited the scenario to finally try and figure out what to do, I found that the author had only set the nearest wagon to couple to, not all the wagons in the train that were needed.

I've seen a number of people do this in the past and while it kinda works, what it does is cause the despatcher to no longer know what is going on - which means it makes bad decisions and things don't work how you expect (as was happening here).

So part of this video is me making a couple of changes to the scenario to clear it up for the despatcher and then it works correctly - though I missed a detail about only dropping off the tankers and dropped them all off.

Still, the point is there - you can see that having told the despatcher to pick up all the wagons, it routed me a different way, as it now knew it needed to do that to fit the entire train in, which it wasn't aware of before, because it thought I only had one wagon :)

Otherwise, as always, a great scenario from Ron_fu-ta! -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/mattpeddlesden

If you want to join in and watch me live on Twitch, tune in from 8pm UK time at http://twitch.tv/mattpeddlesden -  the show usually lasts for 3-4 hours (though 5 or 6 has been known to happen!).  It’ll be great to see you there if you have the opportunity!

My series of Let’s Play Train Simulator 2016 videos cover a wide range of routes and trains with full commentary and interaction with a live audience on Twitch as I drive.

Also, don’t forget my web site at http://www.trainsimlive.tv - more news and behind the scenes content, additional articles, some supporting tutorials that go in to more detail than the videos and much more will be on there as the site develops :)

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