I downloaded this loco today, and after playing around with it managed to get it to work with Billegulla's enginespec (the 'boosted' one, KUID 81997:51441). I've also followed RPearson's excellent instructions to get it to work without changing the interior (here). The loco works fine in TRS2006.
I loaded it up with about 900 tons of carriages and tender. I figured it would have no problem - the MR Hudson and Australian VR S classes can pull 700 tons without an issue, quite quickly.
However, the GS-4 is slow as all hell! It barely accelerates off the line, and any sort of gradient sees it stop and roll back down, even at full boiler pressure! I ran it without the tender and it ran fine, but under any load at all it takes forever to speed up past a crawl, and tops out at about 30mph. Running with just the tender I managed to get it to 100mph after a long, long run.
I guess my question is: Is this normal for this loco, IE is it historical? If it is, this leads to the conclusion that the other locos mentioned aren't. The other possibility is that I screwed up somewhere, if so, what could it be?
I loaded it up with about 900 tons of carriages and tender. I figured it would have no problem - the MR Hudson and Australian VR S classes can pull 700 tons without an issue, quite quickly.
However, the GS-4 is slow as all hell! It barely accelerates off the line, and any sort of gradient sees it stop and roll back down, even at full boiler pressure! I ran it without the tender and it ran fine, but under any load at all it takes forever to speed up past a crawl, and tops out at about 30mph. Running with just the tender I managed to get it to 100mph after a long, long run.
I guess my question is: Is this normal for this loco, IE is it historical? If it is, this leads to the conclusion that the other locos mentioned aren't. The other possibility is that I screwed up somewhere, if so, what could it be?