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Who do you feel makes the highest quality model Diesels? Has good detail and very strong and lasting operational capabilities? I am interested in transition era locomotives. Thanks!
Walthers Proto 2000 are very nice locos, heavily weighted and smooth runners. They do an F7, but always look which box it's in like this, notice the reference to helical gearing.Since I also love steam, i will never leave the Transition era.
The Walthers Mainline range are less detailed, but they have the same drive as the Protos.No transition era here as well, all present day. I will echo Willies sediment on ScaleTrains being extremely well detailed, and excellent runners. I only have 1, but my Intermountain is a good runner, and very well detailed too. Setting those up against my Walthers SD70s makes them look kind of naked, but They run decent as well.
The newer Protos have DCC/sound installed as an option, but have been criticized for a lack of volume. I have my SD45, up at max and it still doesn't match the similar Genesis ones. It would probably be fine on a home layout, where you're not competing with others who love to run with them blaring. I did notice that the 2 GP60's, standard DC, as they now call their DCC ready locos, have the same chassis with speaker mount. The little GP20, on the other hand, does not, but has in my opinion, enough room to mount both decoder and speaker, in place of the electronics fitted.I have a few Life Like Proto 2000 locomotives, two GP-7s and an SW 1200 in N.P. Livery. They are very good runners; however, converting them to DCC is not very easy and adding sound makes the proposition even more difficult. Perhaps I should have qualified what I'm after, Transition era, DCC and sound equipped and if I could, would like the locomotives to have Capacitor Keep Alive already installed. Not asking for much, only the World, I know!!!
I have to say I think that both the Transition and Steam eras are "Going by the Boards"; or, at least the manufacturers feel they are not strong sellers. There does not seem to be much being offered in these two categories.
Assuming we are talking about HO scale my order would be as the following. However on a scale of 1 to 10 some would be only tenths of points above others. A list of value per $ would be quite different, and strictly strong runners would be yet a different ordering.Who do you feel makes the highest quality model Diesels? Has good detail and very strong and lasting operational capabilities? I am interested in transition era locomotives.
Scale Trains did make a transition era locomotive, though everybody's already forgotten about it. Weren't the turbines built during the 1950's?Ummm who am I missing? One might notice that Scale Trains and Fox Valley are not on the list - I don't believe they make any transition era locomotives.
I should have been more clear. Scale trains doesn't make any transition era diesels that I know of.Scale Trains did make a transition era locomotive, though everybody's already forgotten about it. Weren't the turbines built during the 1950's?
I have not purchased a Stewart locomotive since Bowser purchased them. I am therefore hesitant to say. I am pretty certain they will be excellent runners but I know nothing about the detail. The first runs of Stewart, back in the day, had Kato drives and were second to none. I would have put those on the top of my "well running / silent running list". Even their second runs with the Buhler drive were great - and that might still be what they are today. However I would have never put Stewart units at the top of a "most detailed" list. None of the old ones had sound. So the old units would be probably be right there with the Atlas Classic.were does the Stewart Hobbies engines fit in the list?