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Best Locomotive Brand

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conrail92
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Best Locomotive Brand
Posted by conrail92 on Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:39 AM
Ive been looking into buying a locomotive preferably an sd80 or sd70 and i have been looking at different brands such as kato and atheran ect... and i was wondering witch brand mmakes the beat running and operating locomotive for you money. I own a atheran sd70 and im very happy with it. just wondering what other brands are good quality
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jxtrrx
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Posted by jxtrrx on Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:18 AM
Nothing beats an Atlas in my opinion. Plus you can get SDs with sound on board from them. I also really like my Kato. (My Athearn SD50 is nice, but I find I don't run it as much as the Atlases or Katos since it's not quite as smooth, and derails more... but it cost less!).
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conrail92
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Posted by conrail92 on Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:22 AM
I was going to get a Kato Maybe off of ebay cause brand new it was a bit pricy ill look into atlas, heres the kato i was looking into http://cgi.ebay.com/KATO-HO-376346-NS-SD80-MAC-RD-7204_W0QQitemZ6035526018QQcategoryZ19134QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
is your atlas more or less detailed then kato?

PS i just looked on atlas site i didnt see any EMD's or any sd70 or 80's i might go with kato ill see if anyone posts anything else
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Posted by Medina1128 on Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:42 PM
The cheapest price I've found that same locomotive is $123.00, so the eBay "buy it now" price looks like a pretty gppd deal. I'd jump on it.

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conrail92
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Posted by conrail92 on Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:21 PM
i saw one for 100 buy it now for the same locomotive im very tempted to get. on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/KATO-HO-376346-NS-SD80-MAC-RD-7204_W0QQitemZ6035526018QQcategoryZ19134QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Posted by Medina1128 on Friday, May 26, 2006 2:56 AM
Gppd??? I meant good.. Musta had on my dyslexic glasses...

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Friday, May 26, 2006 11:53 AM
I've never tried Atlas or Kato, but I've had fairly good luck with P2K and Athearn.

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conrail92
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Posted by conrail92 on Friday, May 26, 2006 12:31 PM
does p2k have good detail levels? im looking for something detailed and nice looking as well as something that runs well
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 26, 2006 3:49 PM
I like atlas over the other brands... they run nicer and smother than athearns... i would go with atlas any day...
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conrail92
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Posted by conrail92 on Friday, May 26, 2006 5:35 PM
athereans are a bit rough moving i kno, i owned atlas before and they run quiter, but im pacificly looking for an sd80mac and kato has a realy nice one im probly going too go weith them there detailed, they run quite, powerful, a bit pricy but i think its worth it they look realy nice
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