I run tinplate dcs. Like you, I run mth tinplate for my primary motive power. It responses beautifully and of course its shiny !!
The best thing is you can easily double head units, (lash-up in dcs terms)!
Being in the power generation field, I love long coal trains, so I have been amassing mth 2816 hoppers. to run them all though takes some distributed power to avoid string line incidents or slipping. A little bit of time making a custom front end for one of the loco's and wa-la!, dcs tinplate magic happens!