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A special smoke effect, ``BearingHotboxFX ``, can be added adjacent to the wagon hot box.
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This will be triggered if the bearing overheats.
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+ Derailment Coefficient
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+ ----------------------
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+ The derailment coefficient indicates the likelihood that a car or wagon will derail,
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+ and is the ratio of the lateral force to vertical force acting on the wagon. This concept was
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+ first proposed by Nadal.
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+ The higher the coefficient the higher the risk that a derailment will occur. Most railway
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+ companies tend to operate at a coefficient value of less then 0.8 as this gives a desireable
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+ safety margin for the car.
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+ The OR calculated derailment coefficient is displayed in the Force Information HuD. The
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+ coefficient value will change colour to indicate the likelihood of the car derailing. White
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+ indicates normal operation, yellow provides a warning indication, whilst red indicates that
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+ derailment is extremely likely.
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+ Open Rails uses some standard defaults that it uses to calculate the derailment coefficient,
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+ however if the modeler desires greater accuracy the following parameters can be added to the
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+ WAG/ENG file in the wagon section:
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+ ``ORTSLengthBogieCentre `` - length between bogie centres.
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+ ``ORTSLengthCarBody `` - Length between car ends.
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+ ``ORTSLengthCouplerFace `` - length between coupler faces.
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+ ``ORTSNumAxles `` - number of axles on the car.
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+ ``ORTSNumBogies `` - number of bogies on the car.
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Adhesion of Locomotives -- Settings Within the Wagon Section of ENG files
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