F7 Cjp Needs More Power...

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  1. simonireland

    simonireland New Member

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    ...or smaller formations, as 3.5 hours to complete a service which should take an hour and twenty four minutes is a bit much. I spent over an hour and a half crawling up a 2.1 gradient, before the engine shut itself down and I ended up having to ditch half of my train just to make it up the hill. 20221118_125723.jpg
     
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    rennekton#1349 Well-Known Member

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    This is where banking comm would have been helpful which was never implemented. That way you can have trailing locos and go up the incline.
     
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    simonireland New Member

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    Agreed, the ability to request banking locomotives via the radio would be a great feature in situations like this, but as you point out, with no functioning banking comms they would just add more weight
     
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    I have no idea why DTG thought A-B-A formations were appropriate for going up the hill. It’s truly terrible to drive those services. I feel like they’d have to use A-B-B-B-A formations to make the services more bearable.
     
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    OldVern Well-Known Member

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    In this case banking comm refers to the actual link between the locos in the consist to work in multiple, or DPU mode.
     
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    The F7 all "Why won't you just Take A Chance On Me? I'll be your Dancing Queen!"
     

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