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So we have a little OT diversion. There should be a spring at the pivot point which exerts downward pressure on the front truck (keeping it on the rails). It should also swivel easily slide to side. But these locos have narrow tread and small flanges, so if your trackwork is not very good, they will have problems staying on track. These locos (for the same reason) also do not like Peco switches: the drivers drop down into the frog's flangeways.
It can't just be 'we should make podunk and southern railroad SD40's because it would be neat'...
Thank you. I will check that.The main point is: the spring seems to be quit weak, it doesn't have a lot of tension. Perhaps I should get another one from Kato.And the truck swivels A LOT from side to side. IMHO too much. Could someting be broken?Oh, there is another strange effect: The cab goes up and down like a ship in heavy sea when the loco is running. I've never seen a steam loco do that as much as this Kato loco. Javier
Are you sure about that? Mark (grateful when we do get good stuff from Kato)
That's actually a prime example as to why not to do Podunk and Southern.Those came out in 2003 (ish?...I might be off by a year or two). Kato still had lots of those and oddly enough Conrail SD40's sitting in the warehouse when I started in mid 2007. I eventually ended up parting out the last 50 or so in the repair area several years later after the majority had been dumped to distributors after repeated sales.
So I guess there is no chance the N scale RDCs will ever be re-run (and in B&M livery)? Just giving you hard time - no need to respond. I now the answer already.
I would wager lots of Algoma Central units got stripped and repainted.
Not mine! Thomas
Is that why your username is "keeper" instead of "stripper"?
Keep in mind with Kato, you have a weird situation that in order to make a project profitable, you have to make a ton of one type of widget in order to appease the planners at the factory and actually get it produced. While it is always true you can sell a few of anything, we are not talking 200 piece production runs of a sku. It is much much much much higher. Even for reruns of existing tooling with no new paint masks.Going back to championing projects, the person who got those pushed through was a pretty large WC fan so got the Algoma Central units done.