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[quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]I am always a little bothered by any absolute statement: "brass lasts longer" "brass is better" "plastic locos are junk" "Bachmann is junk" "KATO is the best"[/quote] This is one of the rare occasion I have to agree with Sheldon [swg] Returning from my year as an exchange student in the US and after having had the chance to ride the D&RGW narrow gauge train from Durango to Silverton. I wanted to have one of those locos. A brass K-27 was out of reach and even the T-12 was very expensive for a student, but somehow I was able to cash out the vast sum of $120 for it. When it arrived, I was disappointed by the low quality of the model - not very much detail and a poor performer (which it still is) due to its poorly designed drive. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/P1090173_zps26393df7.jpg" alt=" " /> Lesson learned - not all brass is tops! I have owned a lot of plastic locos, some of which were just great models of high quality, some of which were rather expensive junk. My current Bemo Swiss narrow gauge locos are of the latter kind - highly detailed once you were able to install all those extra detail parts (a big nuisance), but bad plastic gearboxes, brittle plastic bodies and a bad paint job and decals, that rub off easily don´t earn my fancy. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/DSC_0335_zpswhjsxgap.jpg" alt=" " /> Lesson learned - expensive locos are not all good, some are really a bad value for money. My old Marklin class E 94 is a different story - a die-cast zinc alloy body, metal gears and a sufficient amount of detail make this loco indestructible. The loco was designed in the late 1950´s and is still being sold, with a different motor and lots of electronic gadges, though. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/P1100469_zpsdm6xwnpc.jpg" alt=" " /> Lesson learned - some of the old stuff is surprisingly good - even by today´s standards!
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