How are the new 44 tonners?

[sparkingbolt]

I havn't seen or heard any feedback on how the new drives in Bachmann Spectrum's 44 tonners perform. Anyone who has any of these care to shed some light?
Thanks, Dan

[Jetrock]

If you mean the single-drive ones intended to be DCC-ready, I own a couple and find them most satisfactory. Personally I'd prefer to find some of the older two-motor models so I can turn them into power trucks for my interurbans, but since I also run some 44-tonners as 44-tonners the new version is also suitable.

They run very smoothly and their low-speed operation is absolutely superb. They don't have much momentum (due to the lack of a flywheel) but since they are primarily light roadswitchers this is not a problem. They don't go very fast, which is nice because the prototype did not either. The only reason I'm not buying more is because I already have two!

Now I'm just going to collect a bunch of the old 44-tonner and 70-tonner bodies so I can strip their trucks. I will keep the body shells and paint them in various prototypes so I can swap out bodies on my running 44-tonners occasionally--keeps things interesting while providing a cheap supply of traction motors!