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I sense that there is quite a bit of variability in the Walthers locomotives from one prototype to another. I've only bought one - the GP9 from their TrainLine brand. I was sceptical at the time, but at that time it was the only HO GP9 except Athearn, and there was a great special on the undecorated version in the Walthers direct-mail flyer. Its by far the lowest-quality diesel I've ever bought and was a lesson to me to stick to Atlas, Kato, Stewart, Life-Like (Proto 2K only) and (a notch down but still pretty good, and has some unusal prototypes) Bachmann Spectrum. After checking out the GP9's inaccuracies, listing what I would need to do to bring the detail to a barely acceptable level, and test-running it (thus realizing that I would also have to re-power it), it went back in the box and has remained there ever since. I need to unload it on E-Bay. <br /> <br />On the other hand, I've heard folks at my LHS say they are very pleased (but none of them have actually bought a GP9).
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