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I'm sure that most brass locomotive can be made to good runners. The question is only how much talent and effort is needed for the necessary tune-up. The tune-up can go from lubrication of the locomotive to total disassembly including running gear, new quartering of steam locomotive drivers with anything in-between. Just removing resinified grease from the gears can be "fun". I'm one of those who are not very talented for this kind of work and made it worse with my own efforts. For my brass steam locomotive from the 1970s-1980s it cost me an average of 150 Euro ($180) to make them excellent runners, including a new motor. Yes they are good runners now. For models of the 1990s onwards the chance is much better that they run good out of the box. I'm not trying to hold back people from buying brass models, even as untalented I am I would buy brass again when I really want a model, just warn possible buyers what they might encounter. If not all the better. Regards, Volker  Regards, Volker
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