block brake speed

I know it's probably been posted a bunch of times, but I can't find the thread using the 'search' here. So how do I speed up the "block brake speed." It's pretty stupid for RTC2 to slow down a train going through a block, that's not what they're there for. With all the cheats and option thingys out there, there's gotta be a way to increase that block brake speed. Thanks to anyone who responds :)

There isn't. The only thing you can do is have the train come through the block at a high speed, so the trim doesn't slow the train completely down.
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Or position the block brake higher off the ground, so it will gain more speed on the drop after the block.

--Ryan

The whole point of a block brake is to bring the train to a complete stop. If you have designed a ride that cannot complete the circuit from a complete stop on the block brakes then you have improperly designed your ride.

If you design your ride so that the block brake does not slow the train to 4mph while passing through, then the block brake will not work in the event of an emergency. I had to learn that the hard way.

The trick to effective block brakes is to place them as high as you can at that point in the ride so that you lose as little speed as possible.

Actually, anything less than 30mph is safe, maybe more but make sure to do extensive E-stop testing. This can be done by adding trims set to 4mph somewhere between the block brake and end of the ride. Make sure to remove it after you know that the block brakes work.

^ He's right. While you should *always* make sure that your train can complete the circuit from a stop on the blocks, most real life coaster block brakes slow the train to somewhere between 20 and 30 MPH (roughly) instead of 4.

--Ryan

But here's the thing. If you really design a ride correctly, a block brake won't slow the train to 4 mph and it will still stop it if it has to.

Look at this coaster - both blocks only slow the train to 10 or 11 (still a tad slow but much better than 4 mph) and they'll still stop the train if necessary. For the record the train hits the block at around 25mph (give or take) in each case.

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I usually put four brake sections and a block brake on the MCBR. I taper the brake speeds from 54>45>36>27. With this the train leaves the brake run at ~22mph.....the blocks still work, and the train does not come to rest. There is one caveat though, on the hyper trains it might overshoot since the trains are heavier. It works fine on the floorless and inverts though.