(27 Aug 2020, 11:52 pm)6049 wrote Some interesting points made. Washington's B9s are the only ones running (excluding those temporarily on X9/X10 duty which always took it's toll) which seem to regularly overheat or at least run hot. This could be because of the modifications made years back to them. The Washington Highway isn't that long but it does have some pretty severe banks at either end as well as Deckham Bank and Grasswell. It'll be interesting to see how the StreetDecks cope with this. The Enviro seemed to make mincemeat of them when it was on demo but I still have reservations about the StreetDecks. I hope these new ones have come on leaps and bounds since the Angel batch, some of which have a dubious track record.
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In my experience they have plenty of power to get up steep banks, a driver took a wrong turn in Bishop and had to do a hill start on Newton Cap Bank, which is pretty steep, and 6332 (may have been 6333) flew up there like it wasn't there.
Plus, 6332 has been running on the X21 since new and seems to still be the best one in the batch.