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Consistency and durability of Atheans are good. Smoothness is not. Like I said, it takes a lot of work to make that smoothness possible. I was just giving the viewer some examples of what I mean. Anyway, you couldn't just think that all 6 axle locomotive are in the same lenth. A E8/9, 6 or 7 is longer than a F45. Although it's a 6 axle diesel. For someone who is still learning about prototypes and what they should look like when modeled wouldn't know these things. I know a lot, but not as much as veterans. I know there's always some modification that have to be done to the mechanism and shell to make one fit, but what do you do when you don't know which one to get. Here's another example. I have an kato F40 shell and don't want to pay the money for a Kato drive unit because it expensive, even on Ebay. So what did I do? I got an Atlas/ Roco FP7 for $50 less than a kato. Yep only $23 bucks. The shell fit perfect. The only thing was the fuel tank of an F40 wasn't on the FP7. Problem solved by buying a detailing kit for a F40 which include the fuel tank. Total ran me about $35. That's the kind of info I'm looking for.
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