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I started with Athearns. A lot of the guys in my club used to run Athearns, but not too many any more. We are in the process of building a new layout. We are starting with DCC. As a result, most of the old Athearns are being left in the dust. All of my buddies new Atlas locos are DCC equiped already, I have an almost entire Kato fleet (just a few Athearn passenger locos that no one else makes!) that is plug n' play with DCC. I think Athearn can be both good and bad for newbies. All my six alxe Athearns would almost constantly derail on the tighter corners of the layout (22") and that got old fast. They are inexpensive, but they reqire a LOT of work to get them to run well. The Kato's are probably the most expensive (in plastic) but run great right out of the box. They have great detail too. The Life Like/Proto 2000 locos are okay, but they sometimes aren't as reliable as the more expensive locos.
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