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buchmann standards are they getting better
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Short answer; yes, they are. Their cheap GPs are very nice locos for the money (you won't even get a little 4-wheel switcher for the same amount here, the only competition is Model Power and the Bachmann locos are a whole league ahead of those). You get a decent motor, smooth silent gearing, NS wheels with fine treads and flanges (handy for DCC as they don't short on switches) - I'd take one over the Athearn BB GP40 any day. Just make sure you're getting the type with the full pilots, and avoid the DCC-fitted units if you can afford to buy a decoder seperately. The factory-fitted decoders are not good - they have no BEMF and are very noisy, so if you can find the extra few £/$ to buy something better, do so. If Bachmann would buy in better decoders (Lenz Silver maybe?) they'd have a real winner on their hands.
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