Didn't think to try them, just the outside drivers. I suppose I should be more
bothered by the lack of flanges
on #2 and #3 than I am, but this is such a common compromise for scale model
locomotives for most of the
history of model railroading it is a non-starter issue for most of us.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> Thank you for your kind words. If you check, drivers 2 and 3 are
> sprung. We tried to have these flanged, but our 2-8-0 would then only
> negotiate a prototype minimum radius which is beyond most acceptable
> code 110 curves.
> Don
>
> > I just received my SHS 2-8-0 and in the flesh/metal and plastic it
> > is at least as impressive as I had been led to believe by looking
> > at Don's website. Haven't run it yet--that will require a DCC
> > installation at some kind soul's venue--but I don't doubt it will run
> > as well as my SHS diesel switchers.
> >
> > I could wish the drivers were sprung, but that is purely a
> > preference--there has been much debate over the years whether scale
> > models
> > really require them for good operation. Basing the locomotive on a
> > carefully-chosen mid-size prototype for a class I railroad also
> > demonstrates
> > excellent marketing instincts (most of the non-B&O choices also look
> > reasonably close to their prototypes, short of extensive redetailing);
> > I could have wished Weaver had been equally astute when they
> > produced their freelance mass-market 2-8-0 in O scale some years ago.
> >
> > Jace Kahn
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