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The Santa Fe northerns, and I imagine any of the 80" Driver northerns will always have operational limitatins in model form. I have 4 of the Bachmann SF northerns and my beloved PFM 2900-class northern that I bought SECOND-HAND in 1968 from a retired Army officer. The long ridged wheelbase of the brass model required heroic proportions in curve radii and high numbered turnouts. But when I was single, that wasn't a problem, I filled the living room with a folded dogbone layout for the 2900 to show her stuff. The Bachmann and I'm betting also the BLI get around the extreme radius problem with large tolerances in the running gear. While this does allow operation around curves tighter than 26"+absolutely required easements, it also, at least in the case of the Bachmann, resulted in somewhat jerky performance. That being said, I will probably purchase a BLI 3751, having been smitted by her when she made the rounds of the Santa Fe a few years back...poetry-in-motion.
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