Loco Freightliner Br Class 70 - Feedback Thread

There's some jobs like that on sand patch grade as well

 

Why do AMPS keep going up and down really quick. In notch 8 can't get above 40 on trent valley in the snow really struggling.

 

Given that a Class 70 is around 20% more powerful than a class 66 it doesn't equate to what I'm finding in the game. I feel like the Simugraph side needs reworking.

 

I no longer have access to the official Loads Book, but if a 66 is capable of restarting a 1050 tonne train on the 1 in 37 Lickey Incline, then the 70 would have been rated slightly higher. So it should certainly be handling these loads out of Rylstone Quarry without issue. As I no longer have the add on, perhaps someone could set up a free roam on BCC with the 70 and an 1100 tonne load (not Freightliner stock as we know that has other issues), start at Bromsgrove and drive half way up the bank, stop and see if they can get going again.

 

But would the class 70 be used irl Rlystone Quarry. Just asking cause I really dont where class 70 majn working lines are.

 

Unknown, but even if this is a fictional substitution it should still cope with the loads that a 66 would handle in real life, or for that matter on the OG runs on the Airedale route.

 

Thanks Vern.

 

Sat at the Home starter at Bromsgrove with a rake of HKA:
Class 70 x1
17 HKA Wagons
Total 1746.8t

Train in Notch 8 rolls slowly backwards, its impossible to get the train moving with a Class 70.
Changing to a Class 66 pulled away in Notch 3.

Of Note, the 66 made it to milepost 55 before running out of juice!

 

Did you manage to do that scenario.

 

to be honest I abandoned it, the scenario markers are all over the place, all the yards and static locations are empty of stock, just felt like something thrown together at the last moment.

 

Oh OK give that one a miss for now then.

 

Other than the fact the 66 should have made it, further proof how rubbish the 70 physics are.

 

It just shows that there is no actual testing done . And if there is its just a quick run on route and thats it passed.