As are/were the later Atlas diesels. the China-built Weavers, and most of the
rest using the nasty dual vertically-mounted motors with spur gears.Even Atlas
didn't learn anything: the SHS EMD switchers essentially use the drive
engineered for the Atlas SW-8/9/1200 (and MP-15); later Atlasdiesels use the
vile tinplate drive with spur gearing, even the otherwise nice RS-1's. All so
they can have the space for the electronics crap.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I forgot to mention in my earlier post that the exposed spur gears along one
> side of each truck as seen on the U33c is another design flaw, for either
> tinplate or scale operation. Multiple spur gears are noisy, even if they are
> not exposed as they are on the U33c, and when they are left exposed, they
> tend to accumulate anything near the layout that can jam the gears. For a
> train running on temporary tracks laid out on the floor, as many toy trains
> would be run, this problem is even worse.
>
> If Lionel had been serious about marketing to both Toy Train Collectors and
> Scale Modelers, all they would have had to do is look at how S Helper Service
> does it, which should have been easy for them since presumably they were
> built in the same factory up until the time Sanda Kan stopped producing
> products for so many of the smaller American companies.
>
> Bill in FL
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