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Old 15th July 2018, 11:31
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Hi Phillip.

Nope, absolutely not. With old style traction (as opposed to fly by wire) you pause momentarily between notches. The motors on a 321 are on the PMOS, which is in the middle of the train, and if you fling the controller around it can make the coaches bump together - even with a 321's poor acceleration.

This is just cackhandedness. Rather than banging in and out of 4, just putting it in notch 1 (or 2 possibly) and leaving it there will maintain speed loss due to friction or incline.

'Smoothly' is what real train drivers do. Though I suspect you already know this as you asked the question.

And look. You've made me all sentimental now. I've only been away from 317/321s for a couple of years, and now inhabit the crazy world of Bum Bardier Electroluxes.

A little faster, but alot nastier....as we say.


Cheers, BW
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