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What they REALLY need to do is include a better speaker and a keepalive.
I received one of these fine little 2-6-0 s, with DCC/Sound, for Christmas and it runs like a swiss. watch. Reliable ,smooth runner and great value for the price.Barry
The story was even more twisted than that. Around 1998 or so, VW group was on a buying spree and wanted to add RR to the lineup. They bought RR/Bentley including the tooling, factories and employees. VW had no idea at the time that Bentley Motor Car had only licensed the name Rolls Royce from the jet engine maker.After VW secured the deal, a sale clause allowed RR Engine to take control of the brand name, to which they then licensed to BMW group. This was an insane deal for BMW as they could produce a new ultra lux car with no legacy costs (older tooling, pensions, etc.). BMW sat on the name until VW relented and sold off the RR intellectual property to BMW at a huge loss. This is why VW pushed the Bentley name so hard. But the total misadventure cost VW group billions.Ironically, this almost happened to another BMW holding. Back in the 1990's, BMW sold off Range Rover to Ford, and spun off MG-Rover to a separate company with Range Rover retaining the ownership of the Rover name. Around 2006, a Chinese company bought MG-Rover, it's tooling, factories and legacy costs after bankruptcy with the intent to sell MG cars as a budget brand and Rover as a luxury marquee in one turn key operation.Range Rover disallowed the use of the name Rover, and the Chinese company was left with a lot of tooling without a name. They eventually settled in the Chinese phonetic pronunciation of Rover: Roewe (most Asiatic languages do not have a "v" consonant).Cars: my other great love.
I won't argue about the speaker/enclosure combo, but mine, with its all-wheel loco and tender pickup, will run through just about anything, within reason. Perhaps you should check if there's a pickup issue with yours?Otto K.
I wish that all those mega-mergers, buyouts, and takeovers would stop. We need a larger variety of individual companies. Nowadays it seems that there is only a small handful of worldwide car makers and they own all the car make brands. But it is not just the automobiles. It seems that the same thing is happening in different industrial areas.
We took a trip to the Netherlands in September and there are two things that really stuck out: there was a lot of Ram pickups, which I don't ever recall seeing before. And the fact every Fiat dealership also had a Jeep and Dodge/Chrysler wing. EVERYTHING was branded Mopar. Yes Mopar is the official parts line for Fiat, Alpha Romeo and even Maseratti. My guess is that Ram will take over Fiat's commercial line in the next few years to streamline production.BTW... I really like my MP sound equipped mogul. Runs well, sounds ok.
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I still have an almost-untouched 2-6-0 from way back in the first run of the Model Power steam offerings.Having seen and played with the 4-4-0, 2-6-0, 4-6-2, and 2-8-2 from that era, I always thought the 2-6-0 was the best of the lot. It had the nice Mashima in it (like the 4-4-0, and UNLIKE the 4-6-2 and 2-8-2 which had cheaper motors),and it had a traction tire so it pulled well. It ran quietly and smoothly. It had the shoddy tender pickup, which I'm glad they have addressed. It was a good buy for $60 or $70, street price. I'm don't think the boiler detailing merits a street price of around $170 for the new version (without DCC).
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