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It's not as bad as people think it is. If you clean the motor up and give is some weight it can be a pretty smooth running loco. I had the same exact one. This is how I know. What's not good about it is that it's not Prototype at all. Now BN  had C424's and 425's and I think that supposed to be close to a C425. The paint scheme is nothing like the real one. It didn't have the white stripe running through it and there was no such road number 853. PLUS, everything on it is not to scale meaning the handrails, ect. What I did to it since I got it to run smooth without any jerking on the track. 1. Solder additional wires to the trucks for constant power 2. Added Weight 3. Remove the handrails and get some Athearn metal ones 4. Stripped it bare and repainted it to prototype 5. Add correct decals Presto. Everything in MRR is not useless unless it don't work at all.
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