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Yep there is that.

Watch the video I posted further up. We run it with 41 HAAs up a helix with no issue whatsoever. I would make sure that there is nothing wrong with the loco. I would also make sure that all of the hopper wheels are free running and not being hindered by brake pads etc. Timestamp approx 20 mins.

Yes but my point is that it becomes very dependent on how heavy or draggy those wagons are. As a manufacturer you shouldn't have to make a loco so powerful that it has to literally be able to pull a rake of bricks with no wheels on. There also has to be a responsibility for wagon manufacturers to not stress locomotives when hauling them. The longer the real life rakes the more free rolling they need to be really. As for our haulage tests it will be interesting to see the figures when we do the tests. I did note on Sam's Trains that he used a Newton gauge on the new AS class 60 and reported 1.3 to 1.4N as the loco was bouncing on the spring gauge (average 1.35N?). Not the most accurate gauge in the world but Sam seemed very pleased with that , stating that 1.4N equates to 70odd coaches or something, again not sure where that figure comes from but thats what he stated. We intend to go a bit more scientific on it. We tested our class 60 sample recently and achieved 1.34N on a high quality digital gauge with no bounce. It will be interesting to see the rest.

I am very interested from a scientific viewpoint as well and I intend to do proper measured haulage capacities for all of the main locomotives from all manufacturers using accurate strain gauges. I also intend to use those same gauges to see what is required to haul realistic rakes of wagon/coaches etc for a comparison. The issue is that rolling resistance and weight of wagon varies massively and can skew what a real expectation of the haulage capacity is for a given loco. Whilst the Dapol yeoman hoppers for instance are in my opinion unnecessarily heavy they do roll well so once underway are not a massive problem however in contrast the above mentioned Accurascale HYAs are reasonable heavy but very very draggy for some reason which holds back the train massively. No rolling stock should impede the loco in my opinion. Regardless of haulage capacity we are building models not hauling real stone and we shouldn't ever be taxing our locos like that in the first place.

Fair enough however it will haul anything the real loco is expected to do and I can guarantee if we had made it 6 axle drive it would have made no difference to the capacity. Haulage capacity is a simple factor of weight on driven contact wheels and the friction generated by those wheels on the rail surface. There is no weight on the centre axles of our 56 and as such the locos weight is split over 8 contact points. The difference with the accurascale locos is that they weight a ton. Nothing to do with them being 6 axle drive.

I would suggest checking to make sure that there is nothing wrong with it then. The haulage tests that we have done show that it can haul anything that the prototype can. Driven centre axles provide no more tractive effort than just having the outer ones powered. What rakes are you having issues with?

No it will be the same drive system as the class 56.

None of them as 049 doesn't carry them in Colas guise.

No problem.

Looks great but that buffer needs looking at. There is a keyway in the buffers to stop them turning so something is amiss there.

Same one. Cavalexmodels@gmail.com

Hi there it would be better to send us an email and we will take a look at it and do a warranty repair if necessary.

It's probably from fitting the later style light to the early model not quite sitting flush due to the difference in cab front shape.

56010 had a later style headlight fitted in unpainted metal finish.

Awesome.