VR Y Class E-spec - 1

VR Y Class E-spec - 1

This enginespec is for the Victorian Railways Y Class 0-6-0 Locomotive built 1887 Kitson & Co. Leeds Engineering England and 1889 Phoenix Foundry Ballarat.

This physic is set to the real values of the locomotive, The Y Class also had a poor performing boilers due to it being small in size and fireman would stuggle to keep boiler pressure up. Try to keep the boiler close to safety valve pressure for 100% tractive effort, working the loco hard at slow speeds with cut-off too far foward will drop the boiler down.

When asending Grades the Regulator should be 100% and cut-off close to mid gear to keep steam-chest up to pressure 'I use 26% cut-off with schedule load of 100%'. In the event of stalling the load should be recalculated and Tender water also be counted to the total Train weight. When going down Grades the cut-off must be full gear and regulator open slightly to prevent cylinder back pressure, the fire will cool when coal drops 70% and lower also with water level 80~90% sight glass, injecting water into the boiler in large amounts at a time while stationary will also pop safeties because adding water to a close vessel also add pressure.

SAVE THE COAL: The use of the Blower should be to clear the black smoke and while standing, the use of the blower while working is a waste of steam and fuel as the smokebox draft already acts like a blower, Steam discharging through the Safetyvalves is fuel wasted.

DCC Users: Try not to exceed 36mph if you don't want safeties to pop all the time.

Locomotive Data.

Boiler Type: Saturated
Boiler Tubes: 212 at 1 2/8 inches diameter
Boiler Volume: 3,079 Litres
Firebox: 95.00 sq ft
Tubes: 1056.00 sq ft
Grate Area 21.00 sq ft
Boiler Press: 140 PSI
Safety Valve Low: 140 PSI
Safety Valve High: 143 PSI
Bore x Stroke: 18in x 26in
Driving Wheels: 4ft 6in
Tractive Power: 15,600lbs '100PSI MEP' 17,472lbs '80% MEP WP'
Cut-Off Range: 75~26%
Top Speed: 40mph
Main Res: 87 PSI Max
Brake Pipe: 72 PSI Max
Brake Cylinder: 65 PSI Max

VR Y Class E-spec - 1
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VE48: This asset uses an obsolete trainz-build number. Trainz-build numbers below 3.5 are no longer supported.
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