This is turning into an FAQ, so let's see if we can simplify.
First thing is installing MSTS BIN, run the install, then go into \Train Simulator with windows explorer. Find dialog.dll and string.dll, copy them to a backup folder. Now go into the \Train Simulator\Translated DLLs folder, copy dialog.dll and string.dll from the appropriate language folder (EN for us English babbling types) and paste into \Train Simulator to overwrite the originals that you just backed up. When you uninstall these two files won't revert, so you must copy dialog.dll and string.dll from your backup to completely uninstall BIN.
So how to change cabs?
Here I have a geep (player engine) with an SD40 coupled on backwards. This is the way real railroads do it these days, the reason so many have gotten rid of turntables is because they no longer need to turn the engines at the end of the line - they just couple the multiple units with the end ones facing outwards, and change to the opposite cab. With MSTS this was rather ugly, the trucks on the reversed engines pivoted the wrong way on curves. BIN has fixed that, so a reversed engine looks right on a curve.
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Hit the 1 key to go into the cab, then F9 to bring up the coupler window. Select the engine you want to change to by clicking with the mouse in the F9 coupler window, and hit the 1 key again.
Now the helper is the player engine, and the player engine is the helper, and you're facing the other way.
You can also change to another engine that wasn't coupled to the player consist originally, just by coupling onto it.
Here I have an F7, RS2, and C-30 sitting on the engine tracks as loose consists.
Drive up and couple on,
Select the engine you want, hit the 1 key. Then push the whole mess onto a runaround siding, uncouple the F7 and run around, now the F7 is the player engine.
First thing is installing MSTS BIN, run the install, then go into \Train Simulator with windows explorer. Find dialog.dll and string.dll, copy them to a backup folder. Now go into the \Train Simulator\Translated DLLs folder, copy dialog.dll and string.dll from the appropriate language folder (EN for us English babbling types) and paste into \Train Simulator to overwrite the originals that you just backed up. When you uninstall these two files won't revert, so you must copy dialog.dll and string.dll from your backup to completely uninstall BIN.
So how to change cabs?
Here I have a geep (player engine) with an SD40 coupled on backwards. This is the way real railroads do it these days, the reason so many have gotten rid of turntables is because they no longer need to turn the engines at the end of the line - they just couple the multiple units with the end ones facing outwards, and change to the opposite cab. With MSTS this was rather ugly, the trucks on the reversed engines pivoted the wrong way on curves. BIN has fixed that, so a reversed engine looks right on a curve.
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Hit the 1 key to go into the cab, then F9 to bring up the coupler window. Select the engine you want to change to by clicking with the mouse in the F9 coupler window, and hit the 1 key again.
Now the helper is the player engine, and the player engine is the helper, and you're facing the other way.
You can also change to another engine that wasn't coupled to the player consist originally, just by coupling onto it.
Here I have an F7, RS2, and C-30 sitting on the engine tracks as loose consists.
Drive up and couple on,
Select the engine you want, hit the 1 key. Then push the whole mess onto a runaround siding, uncouple the F7 and run around, now the F7 is the player engine.
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