Train stalls when resuming activity on Scenic Sub 2 (X2084)

[Basil Price]

Route-- Scenic Sub 2

The train is moving along slowly struggling to get up the hill. The first thing I noticed was that the when I went to different views the train speed in the F4 view would fluctuate with the frame rate. The lower the frame rate the lower the projected speed and the current speed would also drop. At times the wheel slip would start with a change in camera view.

I was running about 10 MPH with the projected speed also about 10 MPH when I had to save. When the activity restarted the starting speed immediately dropped to 5 MPH and the projected to 0. within a few seconds the speed dropped to 0 and then began sliding back. Sanding had no effect. The train was running in notch 8.

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Argument 0 = -resume
Argument 1 = C:\Users\BPrice\AppData\Roaming\Open Rails\6_CanadianImports 2014-03-17 23.23.13.save
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[r.roeterdink (r-roeterdink)]

Some more general info on this :
the problem is not restricted to this particular route and situation but actually appears - in a more innocent form - whenever an activity is resumed.
The advanced physics creates a 'wheelslip' situation when the update time is low or inconsistent - as, for instance, when the update rate is low due to low FPS.
However, on resuming a saved session there is also an inconsistency in the update time, and this causes a very short wheelslip. Normally this goes almost unnoticed, but in a critical situation as detailed above, the system does not recover from this momentary wheelslip.
In my view, the occurance of wheelslip should be suppressed in the first few seconds after restarting a session, to give the advance physics time to 'settle down'.