Does anybody know about the type of electrical pick ups used on these engines. I've seen photos of them, and they look very nice (not Overland quality), but am concerned about the overall quality of these considering that they are rebranded MTH models, and not Atlas Master tooling. Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks to all in advance.
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I have many MTH engines with the same pickup rollers and I have never encountered any issues with them, so there's nothing to worry about with them
Considering this is a 2-rail scale forum I don't think the original poster was talking about pickup rollers.
I have 15 MTH Premier scale wheel locomotives that I run on 2-rail track and electrical pickup is fine.
MichaelB, Thanks, however, the 2 rail models would not have pick up rollers, but should have either wipers, or some other method of electrical pickup. And with DCC, I found that on the Master model MP 15 DC loco, Atlas used a spring and plunger type of pick up that was less than desirable. So I am kind of curious to see if these have bronze wipers, or something similar to what was used on the MPs. And yes Catnap, I was referring to the rail offerings.
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