There was a year about 10 years ago that I was regularly attending the train show at Timonium MD and a fellow came in selling his fathers HUGH collection of O scale cars, ..no engines, just cars.

Even though I am an HO guy, I decided to buy some with the idea of taking them to my retirement in Thailand. I spoke of this back over on this subject thread.

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/28859?page=2#comment-309775

This blog thread is to discuss AHM / Rivroassi articulateds and my experiences with them.

I replaced the stock motors with some relatively cheap can motors. And in one case I hooked up two identical motors in one engine,...one for each set of drivers. The motors ran alike so it worked out fine.

 excerpt...http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html

I bought this layout as just a bench work frame with sectional brass track. My ‘interim plan’ was to just clean up the brass track, smooth out its form, solder all the joints of the sectional track together to obtain some good electrical contact, and then run some trains.

I would then sell it off to another rr-fan and build my dream layout.

Objective:
I want to build a double-deck, around-the-wall, peninsula style layout in a 12x16 shed I have prepared for the job.