Bachmann Spectrum N&W J Class 4-8-4 derailing problems

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Kevin, The drawbar came attached to the tender and yes I do see the four pieces of flash on the drawbar in the picture, they are from the mold risers used during the injection molding process. I will investigate but the mechanism does move freely form side to side it's just that it has no up and down play. If you take any steam locomotive and hold the engine in one hand and the tender in the other you can see there is obviously enough play to move the two independently of each other to some small degree. Not with this tender if you try and move it up or down your going to either snap the drawbar or bend it. I feel as I stated before the only solution that will work is to substitute that poor excuse of engineering for a standard type drawbar. If you look at the only other resin manufacturer of a J class 4-8-4 MTH you'll notice that they use a conventional type drawbar. In fact this is the only locomotive I have ever seen it used on none of their other models use it., so what does that tell you? I have several Proto Heritage 2000 steam locomotives that have a plug connector type drawbar that doubles as a drawbar and a connection for wiring between the locomotive and the tender and they have an amble amount of wiggle room, If I am not mistake I believe Digitrax may offer something similar I'll have to check it out.