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[1.9 fix] CSX AC4400CW Diesel Electric Locomotive

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LORE:
The General Electric AC4400CW, often referred to as the AC44CW, is a 6 axle (C-C) 4400 horsepower diesel-electric roadswitcher locomotive produced by GE Rail from 1993 to 2004. It was GE's first entry into the AC traction motor locomotive market, and a large success. It closely resembles the C44-9W but has AC traction motors and the necessary equipment for them. The AC44 vastly outsold its competitor, the SD70MAC, and can be commonly seen on 5/6 class one railroads in the United States. It uses a 16 cylinder 7FDL-16 prime mover to generate its 4400 horsepower, and was the last GE locomotive produced in the US using the FDL series of prime movers.

CSX's first order of AC44CWs were numbered 1-173. These early orders can be easily identified not just by their number, but by their wheel trucks, as they are the only CSX AC44s to use GE's HI-AD trucks instead of the more commonly used GE Radial trucks. CSX 91, the locomotive modeled, is one of these early orders. CSX purchased or obtained an additional 442 AC44s bringing their total owned to 615.


Specs:
This replica is by far our most advanced one yet. It utilizes the experimental ESS 2.1, as well as our own homebuilt alerter system and the all new NG-12 engine sound system to give a more realistic feel and sound to the locomotive, both of which can be easily disabled for your own convenience. Its prototypical design is also more accurate than our past builds, and boasts a highly detailed interior and exterior. PTC will be included in a later release.

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We recommend playing with damage off due to the tracks being too sharp for such a large engine

Lead engine Startup:
Enter the engine's nose door using the button hidden below the left leg of the "X" in CSX.
The battery knife switch defaults to on for your convenience, however it is located under the engine control panel which is right behind the engineer's desk control stand in case you need to reset it. The next step is to flip on all of the red switches above the engine control panel. If you do not want to worry about safety systems, keep the PTC and Safety Systems switches off.

Next, turn around and look at the left leg of the engineer's desk controls. Flip on the 4 switches labeled: Engine Run, Generator Field, Control, and Dynamic Brake Cut-In, all of which are in a row. Next, sit down and use the monitors to select "Brake Setup". Set the brakes to Lead/Cut-In by pressing their corresponding buttons on the screen, then hit save config before exiting the brake menu.

Now that the locomotive's controls and brakes are set to lead, it's time to start the engine. Go back to the engine control panel, and now press the "Start" button for about 2 seconds. The locomotive may need to prime the engine if it has not run within the last 10 minutes. Once the locomotive has finished startup, as indicated by the hum of the starter motor turning off, set the isolation switch on the engine control panel to "Run", indicated by the top segment of the radial display being illuminated. [The locomotive will only start up if set to start on the isolation switch]. That concludes the startup procedure for a lead unit.

Trailing unit startup:
Follow the same steps as above, however after setting up and releasing the brakes, turn off the Control, Engine Run, Gen Field, and Dynamic Brake Cut-In switches on the desk stand, along with safety systems and PTC. Then either connect the trailing unit to the lead unit VIA the green electrical cable anchor and provided cable on the front and back of the engine, or set it up as a distributed power unit (DPU) if it is not attached to the lead formation.

DPU setup:
First, on your lead locomotive, press the "SET DPU Master" button located in the nose compartment. This will set the lead unit up to transmit its controls. Now plug in your desired frequency into the keypad. Next, set up your DPU the same way you would a trailing unit. Go into the trailing unit's nose, flip on the "Enable DPU slave mode" switch. If your locomotive is facing the opposite direction of the leader, flip on the "invert direction" switch as well. Then set the frequency on the keypad to the same as your lead locomotive. Other locomotives directly behind the lead DPU locomotive can be set up as basic trailing units without needing to setup the DPU system, just make sure to connect them up with the cable.

Operation:
Now that all engines are set up, it's time to get going. First sit down in the engineer's seat. Push the "Automatic Brake" down to zero as indicated by its gauge directly below its controls. Now set the reverser to "F" for forward or "R" for reverse. "-" is neutral and will not apply any power to the motors. The reverser can only be moved when the Combined Power handle is set to zero. The combined power handle controls both the throttle and dynamic brakes of the locomotive. Now that the locomotive is out of neutral, pull down on the combined power handle. The second seven segment will indicate the combined power's position. In order to use the dynamic brakes, simply push forward on the combined power past 0 to enter dynamic braking. Reset it to 0 to disable the dynamic brakes.

Headlight setup:
Singular units should be set to "Single/intermediate/DPU". Lead units should be set to "Controlling F Forward" if facing forward or "Controlling R forward" if facing reverse. Units in the middle of the lead formation of locomotives should be set to, "Single /Intermediate/DPU". The last unit in the lead formation should be set to "Controlled". The DPUs should of course be set to "Single/intermediate/DPU".

Safety systems:
The locomotive is equipped with a basic alerter system, which can be disabled by turning off the "Safety systems" switch above the engine control panel. The alerter will go off every 2 minutes of inactivity while the locomotive is going over 10MPH. Using any of the controls on the desk will silence it. If no action on the controls must be taken, press the "Alerter Acknowledge" button to reset it.

If no action is taken, the locomotive will enter emergency braking. When the locomotive enters emergency brake, either by the player or the safety systems, the PCS "Pneumatic control switch" opens, resetting the throttle and locking the controls and brake in place. In order to reset the PCS, the player just has to hit the "Acknowledge" button to disable the alerter and then wait 60 seconds. The PCS open light will turn off and you will regain control of the locomotive. The PCS system can also be disabled by keeping safety systems off.

NG-12 engine sound system
Disable the sound enhancement by finding the "NG12" MC in the fuel tank and turning it off

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Locomotive exterior, traction motor regulation and screenshots/thumbnails: Enzokatz

Locomotive interior design and control systems: 30DollarNightVision

PTC is in the works from Enzokatz and Gerunimo

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