64Warhorse
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Just bought this loco from the good folks at Jointed Rail. Took it out for a spin on the North East Corridor. Got it up to 226 MPH, and still accelerating, before it derailed ... 
JR CSX SD80 MAC
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Ah I love it when you say that it was off of the DLS, when he said he bought it... Wow, I guess you cant read?, Anyhows, Thats awesome, I didnt know that JR had a locomotive that would go that fast, I know RRmods does.... You should try building a racetrack for it, and watching it go as fast as it can go, that would be SWEEET!!
As usual, the proverbial pot calling the kettle black: I was sharing an "SD80MAC" moment of my own. Also, did you not notice that the OP was talking about JR's SD80MAC, so why are you bringing up the RRMods one? Well, hypocrisy from you is not a surprise: You're the guy who said the internet 'should be shut down' but continues to post on it.
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Oops, I've some how got into the Scalelectric forums by mistake.
Unless he has some roller coaster like route design it might be possible or some very high mountain grade. I myself am into prototypical operations. But I have seen where units gain excessive speed on grades. I would never run a train see how fast it would go. As I try my best to slow it down if that fail`s I use my brakes lol.
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But it's so epic! I mean, I couldn't have believed somebody actually would have written that, had I not seen with my own eyes that you did. And was serious.
norfolksouthern37
what's a normal map?
the JR SD80MAC cannot go that fast on its own, the spec was edited, or something else added to it. these engines have realistic engine specs and carefully calculated traction values that would not make this possible.
64Warhorse
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No, this wasn't even a route I designed, it was one of the ones that came with Trainz 12, and it's pretty much flat. All I did was drop the loco into it, and let it run at max throttle with no train to pull. I tried something similar with a NS Dash 9 that was included in the game, and it topped out at about 90 mph. I'm not at all upset about this, and I would cheerfully recommend JR content to a friend, I just thought it was amusing enough to be worth posting.
PS --- I generally agree with your philosophy of operations, but I was curious to see how the new toy would behave ... :hehe:
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Well i have a layout called 'The Racetrack' I could rrelease, but until this thread I wasn't sure if anyone would need such a test track. Decided to drop the JR ATSF B40-8W on it with no train and it went up to 110 mph. Somehow I didn't figure on going that fats, but that explains the ATSF assigning them to priority intermodal trains and such.
64Warhorse
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Quite possibly true, but not by me. I ran it EXACTLY as it came from JR.
I second this with the JR CR SD80MAC. topped out at 203 MPH
norfolksouthern37
what's a normal map?
i did a test last night with the SD80MAC
cab mode: max speed was 72 mph.
DCC mode: max speed was 80mph.
running in a continuous loop for a 10 minutes it never went over those figures.
cab mode: max speed was 72 mph.
DCC mode: max speed was 80mph.
running in a continuous loop for a 10 minutes it never went over those figures.
Now I see why RRSignal would attack you in a different thread a couple days ago. I posted that it was beneath him to do so and he altered his post, for which I thanked him. I ask you now to refrain from escalating this feud you have between each other or at last keep it out of the forums.
Thanks for that, I was wondering if there was a difference between the two modes.
I'm certain you are correct. As I said, I really like the JR and RRMods offerings and the prototypical operations. Honestly, my mistake was the sideways implication that the engine specs weren't typical. In reality, I couldn't alter or even find an engine spec in my system, I haven't the knowledge. My apology if my run-on thought process made it sound as if I were blaming the engine spec. I wasn't. I'm big into realism, and dirty locomotives.
bill