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Source/Documentation/Manual/physics.rst

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Open Rails software provides for different classes of engines: diesel,
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electric, steam and default. If needed, additional classes can be created
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electric, steam, control and default. If needed, additional classes can be created
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with unique performance characteristics.
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Diesel Locomotives
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To allow the auxiliary tender to be filled at a water fuelling point, a water freight animation will be need to be added to the WAG file as well. (Refer to *Freight Animations* for more details).
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Unpowered Control Car
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This module simulates the control cab of a DMU set of cars. The cab typically would be located in an unpowered
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trailer car which is attached to a powered car for the provision of its motive force to drive the train forward.
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Apart from producing motive force the car (and cabin controls) should behave exactly the same as a locomotive.
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To set a control car up it is necessary to produce an ENG file which has the ``Type ( Control )`` parameter set in
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the engine section of the ENG file.
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The Control car uses most of the same parameters for its configuration as a powered locomotive. The major items that
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can be left out are those parameters associated with power, motive force, diesel engines, some braking items, such
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as the compressor and main air reservoir, and some of the diesel effects (as it has no diesel engine).
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Some of the cab monitoring gauges provide visibility of what is happening on the powered car. To do this OR searches for
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the "closest" powered car near the Control car and uses its infromation.
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Engines -- Multiple Units in Same Consist or AI Engines

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