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Bachmann Plus GP35 locomotive

Thu, 2020-10-29 13:50 — Otter79

Hi There

I have a question which may seem slightly silly to some.

Here’s the background...
My husband has Bachmann Plus GP35 locomotive that has NEVER worked (right out of the box). He bought it for his Dad (a railroader) who loved it and didn’t care if it ran.

My husband would love to see it run, but if he sends it in to Bachman, he may not get the same locomotive back.

If I were to buy another GP35 locomotive that works, could I just put the PRR shell on the working locomotive?

Okay I know how to raise or lower couplers on a freight car, but how do you lower a coupler on a diesel locomotive?? Or is this a case of " don't lower the river. raise the bridge"? Adjust all the freight car couplers to the same level as the locomotive. A lot of work in my opinion.

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Mon, 2020-10-26 08:51 — CAR_FLOATER

Here's a topic I haven't seen before (please correct me if I'm wrong), but does anyone out there have experience mating one manufacturer's body shell on another's frame (or the flip side of that, frame to shell)?

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Tue, 2020-10-13 06:26 — SDL39FAN

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Simple Speed Question

Sun, 2020-10-04 10:20 — RickVS

I have a small flat N layout with clean tracks and have two GP40 locos pulling a 23 car train. The slowest I can go without the locos eventually stalling is 22 sMPH. Is this a typical experience or should I expect to be able to go slower? If I had two larger six axle AC6000 or similar locos would that make a difference and enable me to go slower? Thanks.