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mvlandsw pretty well sums it up. Trains accelerate very slowly because of their obvious weight or type of grade their on. You cannot compare their acceleration capabilties to that of a car or truck. Any type of throttle modulation may take a long time to notice a increase or decrease of speed. I am talking in the order of at least 15 seconds and even minutes. Basically I am saying is the train speed response time is very slow. There is no real need to have a throttle that you could fine tune. Any depriciable difference in grade you are ajusting the throttle a long time before your actually on it to start compensating for the decrease or increase in speed. Most trains are not over powered so on an average run the speed may seldom reach the subdivision max except on descending grades even in throttle 8. Longer trains are easier to maintain a constant speed in hillier grades because it has a tendancy to average out. While one part of the train is going up hill the other part is going down. In my experience real short trains require more throttle regulation because either your whole train is going up the grade or down. <br /> <br />Brent <br /> <br />Brent
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