@Norton posted:K-Line took chances. Plus a DCDR is rated for 8 amps vs 6 amps for a Cruise M. Stall current for four motors is just over ten amps. I guess K-Line thought a DCDR could survive short term locked wheels. Truthfully how many times have you seen two diesels with all 4 trucks locked up?
Pete
Interesting - thanks for this additional info. This set does seem to need to "ramp up" to get moving, even after I greased up all the visible gears. But these are currently the only DC motored locos I have without Legacy cruise control or CC-M, so I'm struggling to recall how a vanilla DCDR behaves in a command environment. Perhaps the reason these locos lurch some and don't start moving until ~RR speed 2 is b/c the DCDR has degraded over time due to not being heatsinked properly? I'm hoping upgrading to a CC-M will eliminate this behavior and allow this set to crawl and run at low speeds like it has done for other locos (i.e. my TMCC Amtrak Dash-9).
I'll upload a video of them starting up to demonstrate what I mean
