Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

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How To Drive Your Trains
By Wizardly Fellow
This is a simple guide to teach you how to drive your trains and what you can do while driving them. For more info visit Chris Sawyer's website[www.chrissawyergames.com].
   
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Train Driving Mode
To get started, select your train and stop it in the train window.











Now for our next step, hold down the "Insert" button on your keyboard.
Keep holding it down and type DRIVER (it doesn't have to be uppercase)
Now click on your train window again.
If you hold down the flag, a new option should appear called "Manual". Click this











Once you click this, your train window should look like this.










Now drag the handle on the new Power/Brake tab into the green and your train should move forward.
The further you drag it into the green, the faster your train will go. The further you drag it into the red, the harder your train will brake.
Use the Turn Around button on the right to change the direction of your train.

Congrats! Your in train driving mode.

When driving your train be careful where you speed up, because in train driving mode you can run through red signals, drive off the end of your tracks, or run into other trains and vehicles (which might be a great way to bankrupt your opponents, but I'll let you try that out ;) )
Signals & Switches
Alright, so now we can drive the train around, but what happens if we hit a switch.










Your train will automatically pick a direction if it comes up to a switch.
However, we can change which track the train will switch onto by clicking on the junction where the tracks meet in the train window when the train is stopped.










As far as I can tell, when you click on the junction, it will cycle through switch alignment.










However, you can better control which switch your train will align to with a signal in the opposite direction.









Even when you cycle through your switch to align to the track with the opposite signal's track, the game will prevent the train from going on that track by taking the signal out of the cycle.
5 Comments
ONCGM 21 Apr, 2024 @ 12:30pm 
Nice to find something new on a game I played since I was a kid.
Given the date I thought it was an Aprils Fool or something.

Tried and it indeed works, just hold down the INSERT key and type DRIVER on any stopped train and it will unlock it for all trains, pretty neat.

And no, it does not need to be in caps.

You can check out more on the dev website under features section:
https://www.chrissawyergames.com/feature6.htm

Now it feels kinda like a model train set as well.
Thanks for the tip.
CruelBoris 22 Feb, 2023 @ 8:42am 
My trains go back and forth but never get to where they are meant to go.
Wizardly Fellow  [author] 10 Aug, 2022 @ 7:05pm 
For Mac keyboards: Hold the "Fn" key and "Enter" while you type DRIVER to engage
Captain Palestine 31 Jul, 2022 @ 12:35pm 
i keep holding insert and typing driver but it doesn't pop up is there something wrong with my locomotion?
Bolt Guy 19 Sep, 2021 @ 12:26am 
is this legit?