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After seeing their Cab Forward I had to have one. So I sold off some brass and purchased a AC-5. The detail is outstanding and the sound is unbelieveable, even in the analog mode. It runs like a swiss watch, but, the shop I purchased the unit from told me that it would run on 14 inch radius, but the minimum was considered to be 22. My radius is 28 minimum. Guess what? The trailing engine derails, especially when running in reverse. Any, and I do mean any, undulations in your track work will derail the locomotive. There is not enough pressure on the trailing truck although the flat sping can be bent and that helps, but it still obviously leads the derailment process. It appears that the wires from the boiler circuit board to the tender are not flexible enough to allow the engine to track properly. The big dissapointment is that BLI doesn't answer their mail. When you spend 400 + for a modell RR product you would expect a comensurate lever of service. Not silence. So if you are comtemplating one of these puppies I'm going to say the minimum radius is has to be 30 inches. I had an old Akane Cab Forward with a rigid front engine and it would do 28 inches.
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