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Overly Sensitive Stewart Switcher
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About a year and a half ago my wife and kids gave me a Stewart Baldwin S-12 end cab switcher. I had been coveting one at the LHS for some time. The locomotive works very well at crawl speed. The problem is that I get way too many derailments on any trackwork that is less than perfect. It also does not seem to handle tight radius'. I have no problems over the same stretches of track with my Atlas', Blue Box, Bachmannn or IHC locomotives. I even ran a friend's Rivorosi steamer over my layout and had no derailments. Yes, some of the turns are tight but it doesn't make sense that an end cab switcher would have problems with turns that six axle diesels handle with ease. Consequently, it is used less than any other locomotive on my layout. <br /> <br />Anyone else have these sort of problems with a Stewart? Is there something I can do short of re-laying all my track to get it to handle tighter turns? I'd like nothing more than to have my S-12 to see more duty during my operating sessions.
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