What are your impressions of this locomotive (the 2-rail version)? What is a fair price for an engine in mint condition?
Thanks,
Jeff C
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Mine ran poorly until I removed the smoke puffing unit (just one screw) then it ran nice and smooth at slow speeds.
Same here, I have a tsunami in the tender and the plunger smoke unit had to go. Way to much drag on the motor. My two crawl OK now. I think $350 to $400 tops for new old stock.
I guess, I would make 3. I also disconnected the smoke bellows and it now runs quite well with a QSI Magnum decoder (power and sound) programmed for a generic 2-8-0.
I actually think it is better out of the box in terms of scale wheels and looks than the Atlas steamer.
J2M
Sometimes a generic model needs some help?
That loco looks great!
Jeff C
Hi there. I had the same issue: the smoke puffing unit is nice, but stalls the engine at low speeds making this fine model pretty jerky. Out with that stuff. Get all this weird looking mechanical and electronic stuff out and this makes a big leap forward.
I did make a DRGW lookalike for my Heavyweights from Atlas. Not exactly the right engine, but huh....
Cheers. Tom
In addition I cleaned blackening from the tender wheel treads, put flanged drivers (bought from Weaver as spare parts) in place of the blind drivers to increase power pickup and wired the tender trucks for both right and left rail pickup.
Jim Scorse
Another variant:
I can tell you that I have the Milwaukee 261 4-8-4 by weaver and it runs very well.
Dick
