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I own a Bachmann plus SP GS-4, ( War Baby ) I have run this little locomotive quite a bit, and it is virtually flawless in performance, detail is rather sparse, but I weathered it just recently, and it looks much better, for an HO Scale steamer, it has decent tractive effort, and will handle a 25 car freight on my layout, with 22 inch min. radius curves, one thing that made it run much smoother was by useing STP Automotive oil additive on the side rod bearings, and valve gear, don"t however use it in the gearing, it could damage plastic gears, but it shure does a great job on the drive rods, a little goes a long way, The model ran well before, but runs great now with the STP removing a lot of friction in the side rods, I think I paid around 60 bucks for it, and it is worth it, but don"t put oil in the smoke tank, it will blow oil all over the place, and dosen"t smoke well unless the speed is turned up to Sputnik ranges, so it is pretty much useless to me, but I like the model a lot, it is a pretty darned good steamer for the money. <br /> <br />Mac
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