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They are very smooth runners, just that out of the box the big engine tends to hunt when going down the track and had troubles with switches. I had the same problerm with a Westside and Max Gray Daylight. I ended up adding some more weight to the boiler and increased the spring tension on the four wheel leading truck and that pretty much solved the problem. The bigger engines, especially some of the articulateds suffered from not being heavy enough to track well. It's easy enough to add more weight, but it would have been nice if they would have came out of the box able to handle the sometimes uneven trackwork of a model layout. Smaller engines do much better on rough track work, especially the switch engines with no leading or trailing wheels. <br /> <br />Sunset and Key have now been in business over 30 years. Samhongsa, their builder, has grown to become the premier quality builder of all Korean imports. Current Samhongsa quality is equal or better to any of the best Japanese builders, museum quality in every respect. While there have probably been at least 50 firms in Korea go out of business in these past 30 years that use to build brass locos for different importers, Samhongsa, Key, and Sunset have continued to thrive with a solid reputation for consistent quality.
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