Bremse anlegen!

[pospec]

Hello again to all (english-section) readers!

I´d like to start a short topic about brakes. Sometimes I get Bremse anlegen! message in Info window.

I haven´t found it in dictionary here in the forum. Does it mean Brakes applied?

[Arie van Zon]

No, it means "Apply brakes!" (you're rolling backwards).

Greetings, Arie

[pospec]

Thank you! I hope that it has no effect on driving score.

[Andreas Damm]

Oh, I fear it does! (at least if your doors are open...)

Andreas

[pospec]

I have noticed it in freight train. How dangerous could be 5 cm movement backwards? I think that penalization is acceptable on passanger train movement only.

How do you solve this on hilly routes while releasing brakes? Do you pull Fahrschalter to position 1 and then release the brakes?

By the way, when Czech drivers add/remove cars from passanger trains in station, they move it, and hard (with passangers)!

[Arie van Zon]

You shouldn't stand still without any brake applied, because it is rather hard to notice, you're rolling. Normally, the straight air brake is used to keep a train stationary.

When departing uphill, you indeed have to apply enough power to depart before/while you release the brakes. That balance is a matter of experience.

Greetings, Arie

[pospec]

I don´t understand the straight air brake. Do you mean the brake that is operated by Führerbremsventil (driver´s brake valve)?

[Thomas Gabler]

No, straight means direct. It's the brake that is operated by the Zusatzbremsventil

Tom

[pospec]

Zusatz = additional? I know two types of braking on Zusi keyboard - with +/- keys (FbV) and with 9/3 keys (dynamic brake).

Tell me how do I operate the Zusatzbremsventil, please.

[Mirko]

Zusatzbremsventil is operated with "+" and "#" - at least I hope it is in the Zusi-Layout as well because I drive in Railsim-Layout as I was used to this before I purchased Zusi.

[Arie van Zon]

The file Zusi\Dokumentation\tastaturbelegung.pdf describes the keyboard layout.

The keys that operate the straight air brake are to the left of the "Enter"-key. (Text on these key caps is for every country different, on my US keyboard it's ] and \).

Good luck, Arie

[pospec]

Thank you Mirko & Arie.
Then, as I stop in station, I shall RELEASE FbV & dynamic brake and APPLY that additional brake, OK?

Am I right, if I say that NOT EVERY loco has this (additional) brake installed?

[Arie van Zon]

Ok, that's right.

Every loco I know, has a straight air brake, multiple units (Triebwagen) mostly not and driving trailers (Steuerwagen) sometimes.

Greets, Arie

[pospec]

Thank you guys!

That´s all I wanted to know about this "short topic".

Have a nice rest of weekend!

[Andreas Karg]

By the way, you cannont actually drive backwards in Zusi. Neither by switching the reverser to backwards and applying power nor by releasing the brake while standing uphill. Let's just say that Carsten was too lazy to implement it when he initially invented Zusi and now it's too late. (... at least fot Zusi 2...)

[pospec]

I hope that we´ll find Zusi 3 under our Christmas trees!

[Mirko]

That's what we already hoped the last two Christmas seasons

[pospec]

Oops! Thank you for that info, Mirko. Carsten is obviously VERY busy.

We should be patient - according to fact, that I wasn´t able to find neither screenshots nor other info about development of Zusi 3.

[Christoph Blümer]

We should be patient -

You have learned the basic rules of our community very quickly - that's fine...

SCNR...

Christoph

[(Ar-) T-Rex]

A real rarity here...