Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Anyone notice this weird occurrence?

A loco running on a very long suspension bridge is capped to roughly 81% of its speed. I set a very high pull weight modifier so speed with all loads reach maximum.

The e-88 has a top speed of 330, and max speed while on the suspension bridge hovers around 269, 270. This cap is not affected by cargo weight or consist length. Full passenger consist, or full alcohol consist, or 1 car consist or 8 car consist all give the same speed cap.

Makes sense. The game most likely treats them as steel bridges, and steel bridges in RT3 cap train speed at about 80% of their 0% grade maximum with whatever consist they are hauling. Wooden bridges cap speed at 50%, while stone allows the full 100%.

So suspension bridges while looking lovely is not really good for speed. Sometimes its possible to get a stone bridge instead of suspension when crossing long distance over water. Anyone experienced that?

Yeah, the game's bridges have some eccentricities I found out about that trick when playing the Rhodes Unfinished map. In that case it wouldn't work with timber bridges, but would work with steel bridges.It's a good dodge when you can get away with it.