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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp Well, keep in mind that I drive poor man's locos (though I'm more cheap than poor...), and that I only have two of them. One is a standard Life Like F40PH and one is a standard Life Like GP38-2. Now before you laugh me off the board, please remember that I'm in 'N' scale. And in 'N' scale, even standard Life Like comes with all wheel pickup / all wheel drive and a 5-pole skewed armature motor. [/quote] [#ditto] I have several locomotives, none of which I can run on a regular basis. In N scale, I have one Life-Like E8A that pulls a decent passenger consist of 8 cars through lots of different grades. I've also got a Model Power 4-6-2 Pacific which is DCC equipped, and which pulls decently, but not a lot of cars. In HO, I've got an Athearn PA1 & PA2, noisy as heck, but run well. I've got 3 Athearn F7s from the late '80's, a Mantua 4-6-2 Pacific (do you see a trend in my steam locomotives?), and a Kato SD80MAC. I've only run the 80 a few times, and it seems to be a very smooth running, quiet, and responsive. I've also got my two Lionel steam locomotives, but since I don't have a layout in O scale set up, I can't run them as often as I like. I remember something an acquaintance said about locomotives. "If you're rich, you don't have enough locomotives. If you have enough locomotives, you aren't rich."
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