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Edit: Some more progress. Not much to this one. Very simple indeed. If anyone's wondering why the coal is so pale, early UK choofers burned coke. There was a law which said the they weren't allowed to make smoke, so coal wasn't used initially.
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Since it's intended to give good performance with the new heavy freight category, which at 7.5 tons is 50% heavier than default A era freights, the amount of grunt has been chosen to give roughly the same performance as a default Planet hauling default mixed cargo (ie: 4 ton cars on average). I figure any slower than that will drive everyone nuts.
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The extra consist weight will probably require a boost in reliability, since Planets and other early locos are at their reliability limit even with 5 ton cars. Provisional stats are looking like this:
Top speed = 22
Free weight = 22
Pulling power = 3
Locomotive weight = 22
Tender weight = 0
Fuel rating = Very Poor
Acceleration = Very Poor
Reliability = Below Average
Passenger Appeal = Ugly (80% revenue)
Purchase cost (probably) = $20k
First year maintenance = $8k
Not exactly sure on the prices yet but, pending live testing, the rest should be pretty close. With this one available it'd make sense to re-purpose the Planet for express. That actually did 31 mph in real life. To be exact, it covered the 31 miles between Liverpool and Manchester in one hour flat, including dealing with whatever grades and curves were on the line. Obviously this was done with a light consist, but it did do it. So I'm thinking the Planet would get changed to something like:
Top speed = 31
Free weight = 9
Pulling power = 1.5
Fuel rating = Atrocious
Locomotive weight = 31
Tender = 0
Acceleration = Very Poor
Reliability = Poor
Passenger Appeal = Very Cool (120% revenue)
Purchase cost (probably) = $20k
First year maintenance = $8k
Again, not quite sure on the costs, but my feeling is that the default Planet is too cheap at $10k.