Generic First Generation SR EMU Cabview for all SR/BR emu's built before 1950 prior to the EPB stock. This excludes 4COR which has its own unique cabview.

First generation SR emu's (built before 1950) had their guages and meters mounted on a panel high up on the left side of the cab. Due to this unique layout and msts's inability to operate equipment in the side views, I have opted to leave out working guages and meters in liue of accuracy. Those who wish to drive using dials will have to use the F4 key (drivers aid) and/or F5 key (info) to see what their brake pressure, amps and speed are. Of course the gear lever, accelerator and air brakes work. Just remember after an emergency stop it will take time to rebuild air pressure again as there is no guage to display it and the silence can fool you into thinking msts has stopped working. 

This cabview has come with the very kind and support of Anthony Coulls, Curator of the NRM Shildon Museum who took the cab photo's of the 2BIL in the museum, and also the huge support of Geoff Harrison who supplied many more photo's and he also did the legwork finding sources for early emu cabview photo's (they are hard to come by). Thanks also goes to Tom for info from the Drivers Handbook for SR emus and Mike Radford of Marc's Models for also supplying cabview pictures.

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IN THIS FOLDER ARE:


i) A folder containing Modified eng files and Cabview folder for all Mike Traves' emu models except 4COR.

ii) A common.cab folder containing the SR_EMU_cab folder

iii) A CABVIEW folder for stand-alone cabviews.


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ONLY ATTEMPT INSTALLING THIS CABVIEW IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH MODIFYING FILES OR ARE WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE. BACK UP ANY FOLDERS YOU WILL BE CHANGING AS I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE IF ANYTHING STOPS WORKING.

INSTALLATION:

If you are going to change out a large number of cabviews it may be best to "Unstore everything" in Trainstore before proceeding.

There are 2 general ways of installing the SR emu cabview. The common cab version or the stand-alone version.

COMMON CAB

There are two ways of doing this, global or selective.

 Place the "common.cab" folder into your TRAINSET folder. If asked to overwrite select YES.

Global

 In the Modified eng files folder you will find a TRAINSET folder. In that TRAINSET folder will be the folders for all Mike Traves'  SR emus except the 4COR series. Thes folders contain the modified eng files and the cabview folder for each model. 

These files will overwrite all the eng files, so back up all the SR model folders you have  ( they may be in TRAINSTORE ) that are listed in the above TRAINSET folder before proceeding.

Copy the downloaded TRAINSET folder into your TRAINS folder. Answer YES if asked to overwrite.

Use TRAINSTORE afterwards which will remove any eng file belonging to models you dont have installed.

Selective

 In the Modified eng files folder you will find a TRAINSET folder. In that TRAINSET folder will be the folders for all Mike Traves'  SR emus except the 4COR series. Thes folders contain the modified eng files and the cabview folder for each model. 

Select the folders in the above TRAINSET folder for the models who's cabview you wish to change. Copy and paste them into your msts TRAINSET folder. When asked to overwrite answer yes.

NOTE: These files will overwrite all the eng files, so back up all the SR model folders you have ( they may be in TRAINSTORE ) that you are changing before proceeding.

Use TRAINSTORE afterwards.


STAND-ALONE

      Previous versions of Mike Traves' emu models were set up for Kim Durose's 2BIL cabview and had only 4 steps to the brake and a notch type accelerator.  This new SR cabview has been changed to a 6 step brake and a continuous (non-notch) accelerator. This requires the following modifications to the eng file: 

   Select the Mike Traves' SR emu folder of your choice. Back up the eng files of the model who's cabview you wish to change.

   Paste the CABVIEW folder into your chosen model folder.

   Open the eng file(s) with your text editor (wordpad) and search for the line "EngineControllers".  There will possibly be some differences but you should see something similar to:

EngineControllers (
            Throttle ( 0 1 0.2 0 
                NumNotches ( 6
                Notch ( 0          0 Dummy )
                Notch ( 0.2        0 Dummy )
                Notch ( 0.4        0 Dummy )
                Notch ( 0.6        0 Dummy )
                Notch ( 0.8        0 Dummy )
                Notch ( 1          0 Dummy )
                 )
            )
            Brake_Train ( 0 1 0.0125 0.75 
                NumNotches ( 4
                    Notch( 0    1 TrainBrakesControllerReleaseStart )
                    Notch( 0.10 1 TrainBrakesControllerEPApplyStart )
                    Notch( 0.90 0 TrainBrakesControllerEPHoldStart )
                    Notch( 1.00 0 TrainBrakesControllerEmergencyStart )
                )
            )
            
            EmergencyStopToggle( 0 1 0 )
            Vigilance ( 0 1 0 )
            DirControl ( -1 0 1 1 )
            AWS ( 0 1 0 )
            Horn ( 0 1 0 )
            PantographToggle1 ( 0 1 1 )
            Headlights ( 0 0.25 1 0 )
            Wipers ( 0 1 0 )
        )

Note the number of brackets. The "(" brackets must have the same number of ")" brackets. I counted 22 in this sample.

Replace ( cut and paste ) the above lines (or their equivilents) with:

EngineControllers (
        Throttle ( 0 1 0.2 0
            NumNotches ( 0 )
        )
        Brake_Train ( 0 1 0.0125 0.35
            NumNotches ( 6
                Notch ( 0       0 TrainBrakesControllerReleaseStart )
                Notch ( 0.2     0 TrainBrakesControllerHoldLappedStart )
                Notch ( 0.3     1 TrainBrakesControllerGraduatedSelfLapLimitedHoldingStart )
                Notch ( 0.85    0 TrainBrakesControllerSuppressionStart )
                Notch ( 0.9     0 TrainBrakesControllerContinuousServiceStart )
                Notch ( 0.95    0 TrainBrakesControllerEmergencyStart )
            )
        )

        DirControl ( -1 0 1 1 )
        EmergencyStopResetToggle( 0 1 0 )
        EmergencyStopToggle( 0 1 0 )
        AWS ( 0 1 0 )
        Sanding ( 0 1 0 )
        Horn ( 0 1 0 )
        Vigilance ( 0 1 0 )
        PantographToggle1 ( 0 1 1 )
        Headlights ( 0 0.25 1 0 )
        Wipers ( 0 1 0 )
        BellToggle( 0 1 0 )
    )

Make sure there are no left over brackets!


Next find the line: "Cabview"

you should get:

 CabView ( 2bil.cvf ) or its equivilent cabview reference.

Replace (cut and paste) the above cabview line with:

CabView ( SR_EMU.cvf )

Save your file.

CUSTOM

The folder "SR_EMU_cab" is found in the downloaded commom.cab folder. 

The CABVIEW folder containing the SR_EMU.cvf file for common.cab is found in any of the cabview folders in the downloaded TRAINSET model folders.

There is also a  SR_EMU.cvf  for common cab in common.cab//SR_EMU_cab//

The non-common.cab (stand-alone) SR_EMU.cvf is in the downloaded CABVIEW folder.

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LEGAL

This model and the texture files are Freeware, and may be freely distributed as long as all the files in this archive are kept together.  The model, texture file and additional data may NOT be sold or licensed for payment. 

Installation and use of the files in this archive is entirely at your own risk, and the author accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any hardware damage, software corruption or loss of data that may result from the use of this software. If you are unsure on how to create folders and carry out basic file manipulations you are strongly advised to seek qualified assistance before attempting to install the files contained in this archive.

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Hope you enjoy this model and can find good use for it.

Regards

Mike (meonia)..................................................

m_traves@prcn.org  


