Turbo Bill
08-23-2008, 03:14 PM
There's an excellant discusion on locomotive and railcar braking methods in regards to both light engine to mulitunit lashups to long heavy and light trains. The couplers and slack are also discussed. Most of the posts are from RW or ex RW engineers and the top MSTS physics specalists. You might find the reading interesting. Here's the link:
http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?p=1422961&posted=1#post1422961
http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?p=1422961&posted=1#post1422961