I noticed as I’m climbing the hill in 8 notch and watch my train go by, my Distributed Power units on the rear seem to be in idle while the head end is loudly pulling. The hill climb hovers around 13-15 mph. With 4 engines, this should not be the case and the tutorial doesn’t seem to address anything about setting up DP. Anyone have any advice on how to get the DP units cranking and get some speed on this hill??
You have to turn on banking comm first before touching any of the controls. Also make sure distributed power switch is on in each locomotive as well as a radio. If you're unsure if dp is working, apply power at the front locomotive and switch to rear camera and see if the same amount of power is applied. Even with 4 locos, I reached like 20mph. You don't get much speed with 4 locos on an uphill gradient with several thousand tons behind you even at full power. If the gradient is even steeper, you get slower speeds