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Con-cor daylight, very smooth runner and good puller, will not do small radius curves, forget anything less than 13" I mean it. I have kato unitrack and any section that came from my K-1 set with 11" curves, off she went. Trailing truck and drawbar will foul together , and the pilot truck lacks sufficent clearance to swing. Probably a great engine if you have big curves and big switches. <br />New split frame 4-8-4 from Bachmann runs very nice, pulls well, and will do the aformentioned 11" curves no problem. A good deal for the price. If they would get rid of the piston rod coming through the front of the cylinder, that would be my only recommendation. <br />MP pacific was very smooth out of the box, but wouldn't pull 3 passenger cars, even those with MT trucks. Engine is cab heavy. Should be rebalanced and have traction tires, traction tire wheelsets are available from Model Power, but I don't recommend this to anyone with less than a degree from MIT. I sent mine back to model power, told them to fix it. Plastic wheel centers on metal axles are prone to shifting and screwing up proper quartering. My advice? Wait until Model Power equips their engines with traction tires, or corrects the balance of the engine so that all its weight can be used for traction.
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