01-16-2011, 10:47 PM
FCIN Wrote: ... It's a real shame that you can fork over almost $200 for a beautifully detailed model like this then have to almost rebuild it to get it to run good! ...
Hmmm. That sounds familiar.
Oh yeah! That's what I said when I bought my first piece of brass, a Gem Models Reading I10s 2-8-0 Consolidation. It was beautiful (by 1974 standards) with all the freestanding pipes and the little globe valves and everything. Of course, it was only $150.00 ... not $200 but it was 1974!
But despite all it's looks, a barely scale Marx cast pot metal "Hudson" with a smoke unit and almost no detail, not even cast on detail, ran better! Except for not barking, it was a dog. 8-)
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln