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My take: 1. Atlas Master. Kato quality drive with Genesis level details. 2. Athearn Genesis. Great details, good drive, great paint. Steam are poor pullers. 3. Kato. Good details decent paint, great drive 4. Intermountain. Good details & drive 5. Proto1000DX. Great details, good drive. Some driveline problems 6. Proto2000. Great details, good drive, some driveline problems and detail accuracy is variable. 8. Atlas Classic. Good drive, decent details, but not stellar. 9. Stewart. Good drive, decent details. 10. Proto1000. good drive & details, some driveline issues. 11. Athearn RTR. decent drive, lack discrete detail, good basis for projects. Excellent for beginners. 12. Walthers Trainline. OK drive, good for beginners. Only source for adequate versions of some units. 13. Athearn Bluebox. OK drive, poor handrails, otherwise much like RTR. 14. Bachmann Spectrum. Variable quality, OK to poor drives. Steam is gems though. 15. AHM/IHC/Tyco/Life-Like: Cheap junk, sometimes with promise for a major project. IHC Steam can be decent. Thee apply only to Diesels. Steam ranking changes significantly. And Proto1000DX units are Canadian Prototypes of almost P2K detail level. More accurate on average than the P2K's though.
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