@Bill Swatos posted:My newly acquired "Polar Express Era" (2006) NYC tail end:
She goes well with my ALCo 0-6-0 saddle tank switcher and, as the last photo shows, she has two pickups so she runs "flicker-free" over most center rail interruptions. She has a design flaw resulting in three of the four wires being nearly or completely broken off due to flexing at the solder connections when I got her. I had to rewire the pickups with the wires coming up through the rivets to prevent this flexing. Though it may look like it, the wires do not contact the inside axle of each truck and even if they briefly do around a tight curve, the plated axles are quite smooth and shouldn't wear through the insulation. Now she shines "through thick and thin."
A job well done
