Best switcher for the money

[Anonymous]

For the money I would say Atlas. I have Atlas and Broadway. The Atlas can pull a lot more than the Broadway.

[aloco]

I've owned various brands and types of diesel switchers in HO scale, and I would say that my Life-Like GM switchers are the best running locos. They are geared down for slow speed and the motors are very similar to the smooth running Kato motors found in the early Atlas RS units. If you want to use them with DCC, NCE (North Coast Engineering) makes a decoder that is a direct replacement for the existing circuit board.

[Anonymous]

I like my Atlas Classic S1, my Stewart S8 and my P2K SW9.

[nfmisso]

P2K. Stewart, Atlas,. or Walthers (SW1 or H10/12-44)

[simon1966]

I really like my Atlas S2. They are older models, but well made and easy to convert to DCC. Smooth quiet runners. The P2K models are good also. I am not as happy with my Athearns, but then they cost a lot less. I got a BLI one also and had a few tracking problems. One truck would not turn correctly. Turned out to be a trapped wire.

[Anonymous]

Since my layout has tons of switching, I need to purchase a couple of switch engines. Im not talking about GPs and I already have a critter, 44 tonner, and a little 0-6-0. Im looking for a good quality, reasonably priced switcher of the SW or NW type size. Sound is not a necessity, but its neat, so if you like the BLI switchers go ahead and post that too.

Thanks[:D]