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RailPro => RailPro Specific Help & Discussion => Topic started by: zr1rob on January 21, 2026, 05:15:13 PM

Title: Different locos, same number?
Post by: zr1rob on January 21, 2026, 05:15:13 PM
Can I assign the same loco ID to multiple locos?

eg. say an ABA set of F units, all programmed to a single Icon on the HC?
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: nodcc4me on January 21, 2026, 08:48:18 PM
Each LM can have only one name at a time, but if you consist the locomotives, you can control all of them with any one of them and switch to a different one at will.
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: LVRR1856 on January 21, 2026, 10:04:42 PM
This would defeat the "Load Sharing Technology" used in MU'g locos. They most likely would not be speed matched and eventually damage gears or strip drive shafts etc ...

Once you MU the set, it is stored and always there until you "unlink" them. Just have to select the lead or any of them and the MU should show up.
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: zr1rob on January 27, 2026, 02:51:15 PM
that load sharing aspect really sold me on keeping each loco a separate entity
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: Espeelark on January 27, 2026, 04:38:13 PM
If you have more than one HC, just remember that only the specific HC that created the link will be able to "see" the linked locos after the track power has been cycled off/on.
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: snowdog on January 28, 2026, 09:19:56 PM
Quote from: Espeelark on January 27, 2026, 04:38:13 PM
If you have more than one HC, just remember that only the specific HC that created the link will be able to "see" the linked locos after the track power has been cycled off/on.

THATS GOOD TO KNOW!!!
Title: Re: Different locos, same number?
Post by: zr1rob on February 02, 2026, 10:10:50 AM
Quote from: Espeelark on January 27, 2026, 04:38:13 PM
If you have more than one HC, just remember that only the specific HC that created the link will be able to "see" the linked locos after the track power has been cycled off/on.

so the HC is what holds the link not the locos, right?