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Quick and easy answer, any modern diesel in Atlas or Kato. Anything after and including Life Like's SW9/12 - I'm not talking era here, but when the actual model was built. Pre- SW9/12's, most of LL was garbage (there are a couple of models we could debate - but you're talking quality here). Steam Bachmann's Consolidation that came out about year and a half ago, maybe a little more. Make sure you run it, as there are some bad runner's in the lot, but the goods one are ... well... good. This is considered the most detail, great looking plastic steam loco in N. Kato's Mikado's. This next one is debatable - I'd make sure I owned the first two before I bought this, but Model Power's Pacific (again test run to make sure it runs well) from their SECOND batch. The big negative on this loco is this puppy is loud. There are other good runner's out there, but if you follow the above - you won't have problems. And don't forget the used market. I just helped a guy at my LHS buy his first quality engine (it was used) from Atlas. It was a "sweet" runner and he fell in love with during the "first" test run. His other stuff was junk from "early" Bachmann's (this stuff isn't worthy of capitalizing the companies name). There was an early Life Like in the cabinet (used) and we ran that versus three different Atlas's and a Kato. Needless to say, the early Life Like ran like crap, the Kato was wonderful and the Atlas's ran, good and good, and great ("sweet"). He didn't have the bucks for the Kato so he went with the sweet running Atlas. Saved himself some money, since it was used, but it ran great and will last a lifetime probably.
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