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The Mehano stuff pushed by Model Power and Life Like years ago was pure junk right out of the land of Yugos. They had a whole laughable line of "trains" in N scale, which were probably sponsored by video game manufacturers to discourage us from trains to the land of Sega. But, I managed to land one RSD-15 which runs like a Kato RS3, smooth, quiet and powerful. One managed to escape. Another classic old junker was the Rivarossi E7 with the vertical motor and buttons on the front truck - sounded bad, no power and no speed control. They should have changed their name to Rip-off-a rossi. I have a friend that can make them perform....I have a couple that run ok now...I watched him repair them and still can't do it myself. Other junk is the Lima FP45, and their F7. In today's stuff, the Bachmann Dash8's are very disappointing; all Bachmann Plus F7s have a click that sounds like a gear tooth or sand in the mechanisms. The best/worst steamers are the K4 Pacific by Minitrix-when they're good they're very good, but when they're bad they're horrible wobbling, coughing, noisy, sputtering, junky good for nothings. Only %64.95 each retail, and they wonder why they went down with the Lusitania. When Kato got into the flock, it was pretty obvious they laid the hammer down. First, the PA, then others and now we are where we are today, manufacturers trying to out-quality each other, who wins? We do. Ken "Steamguy/Steamdude" Willaman
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