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Title: alco 2-6-0
Post by: RAM on January 02, 2012, 10:46:06 PM
The Alco 2-6-0 got some great reviews on another forum that usually trash Bachmann.  It is a good looking locomotive.  I just don't know why they can't get the correct numbers on Santa Fe steam.  9441  was a 2-8-0
Title: Re: alco 2-6-0
Post by: rrbob on January 03, 2012, 08:25:03 PM
The number isn't right for the Pennsy either. But that's ok, I stripped off the name and number and added my own, plus  details: marker lights, new bell, whistle( there wasn't one!), new number plate on boiler front, crew, and a hinged platform between the engine and tender for the fireman.
I also changed the coupler on the tender to a shorter one. Not easy to do, the box is narrow at the end and the round peg for the coupler is to big for a Kadee or any other.
But it runs like a dream!
Bob D.