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I have one of these. I bought it years ago, early after my return to model railroading. It is an excellent runner and a powerful puller. While the flanges are a bit deeper than RP25, I had no trouble with it on Walthers/Shinohara code 83 track. My B&O-decorated model came with a ridiculously incorrect tender (tries to be a Vanderbilt but fails, I've been told that this goes back to the earliest release of the model which used a tender-mounted motor); I recently replaced it with a Spectrum Vandy tender and it looks MUCH better. If a good runner is your main priority, this model can't be beat. If better appearance is more important you should get the Spectrum, which was not available at the time that I purchased the IHC. Be careful about buying this model on E-Bay as earlier versions (earlier as in 20 or more years ago) may not have the same running mechanism. Also, and as others have noted, do not assume that all IHC locos will run this well; they vary quite widely depedning on the original designer.
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