quote:Originally posted by laming:
Hi All:
Anybody here into Kusan? If so:
* How do their Alco FA's run?
* Is the rolling stock close in size to the Lionel 6464/etc cars? (i.e. "Traditional")
* Will their couplers mate with Lionel knuckle couplers?
Thanks for any input you can offer. Sort of find some of their stuff interesting.
Andre
The FAs were pure junk. Kusan also was the original source for
Walter Matuch's BEEP tooling. Walt's BEEPS run NICELY. Kusan's were JUNK. As for the Kusan cars, those with die cast trucks are EXCELLENT, those with plastic trucks are best left to the collector's shelf. There is no hard and fast rule with American Models/Kusan trains. It can be said that their aluminum passenger cars and metal trucked freight cars were some of the finest toy trains ever made but the company never made a really good running locomotive. The tooling for their F units and Beeps went to Williams and of course RMT now uses the BEEP shell for his FINE RUNNING mechanism. I don't know what happened to the Kusan FA tools. If you have an operational Kusan FA, PLEASE POST PICTURES or better yet a video of it running because I never have seen one in operating condition in 45 years in this hobby. BTW, I think the FAs were 2-rail pickup with deep flanges.
