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Originally Posted by stevestrat
Dudley is knocking at the door here, some strong gusts but supposed to get a lot worse later.
Taking a coal train to Longannet power station, climbing from Inverkeithing the front loco kept losing power so we had to split them. The front loco got worse so that the rear one I was on was doing 90% of the work, it boiled its coolant and started syphoning itself off through the overflow! Made it to Townhill loop where we had to run round the train, declared the locos a failure so they sent another pair of 20s out. Got down to Longannet, had to stop on the rising gradient just before the discharge plant . . . . couldn't lift the train again, split the locos. The driver on the front one, me on the rear one playing tunes with the exhaust trying to get the train moving. In the end I'd had enough  cracked the throttle wide open . . . . the power ammeter went right off the scale, should have overloaded but it didn't, instead it walked away with the train  |
LOL speaking of exhaust notes the GPU in this gaming PC got a HD Audio update yesterday & I play it through a half decent 2.1 sound system, Holy Moly the sounds are so realistic & loud, The 20 has a great sounding horn
I noticed the ammeter overloads easily if you try & give it too much whelly too soon & jumps up into the red. There are some nice touches on this sim when you slow down & stop with a train of 18 coal wagons, you get the slack being taken up & bumping you when you brake, Liking this Class 20 a lot.
I was contemplating getting the Cathcart circle line last night but it's too expensive, I'll wait until it's on sale at half price or less
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...n_Route_AddOn/
The rain & wind has started to pick up here & there's already a lump of mortar from the ridge tiles fell onto the front garden
