performance of bachmann's new GE 44 tonners

[Anonymous]

does anyone know how well the new bachmann GE 44 tonners perform? i have one of their 44 tonners from 1994 that does not come equipped with knuckle couplers. what is most cars one of the new $70 GE 44 tonners has pulled?

[Anonymous]

does anyone know how well the new bachmann GE 44 tonners perform? i have one of their 44 tonners from 1994 that does not come equipped with knuckle couplers. what is most cars one of the new $70 GE 44 tonners has pulled?

[Anonymous]

I have one of the new 44 tonners, and I love it. I have yet to try to pull any
large number if cars with it, but it runs nicely and quietly.

Juan

[Anonymous]

I have one of the new 44 tonners, and I love it. I have yet to try to pull any
large number if cars with it, but it runs nicely and quietly.

Juan

[cacole]

I have the U.S. Army decorated version, and put a DCC decoder into it. They run very smoothly and quietly. Bachmann puts a separate motor on each truck on this model instead of trying to use only one motor. The only drawback I have encountered is that the locomotive is so small there was no room for a decoder plug, so you have to carefully solder a decoder's wires to small solder pads on the edge of a circuit board and put the decoder on edge where a crewman would be. I used a Lenz LE077 decoder, which is only about as large as a dime. A very steady hand is required to solder such small wires, but it's not impossible if you have a very fine point on your soldering iron.

[cacole]

I have the U.S. Army decorated version, and put a DCC decoder into it. They run very smoothly and quietly. Bachmann puts a separate motor on each truck on this model instead of trying to use only one motor. The only drawback I have encountered is that the locomotive is so small there was no room for a decoder plug, so you have to carefully solder a decoder's wires to small solder pads on the edge of a circuit board and put the decoder on edge where a crewman would be. I used a Lenz LE077 decoder, which is only about as large as a dime. A very steady hand is required to solder such small wires, but it's not impossible if you have a very fine point on your soldering iron.