Hi,   Under the tree yesterday was a Proto 2000 3 truck Climax w/Tsunami Decoder.  Seems to run pretty good, but runs very slowly...  I would not expect these to run the same speed as the Bachman Alco 2-6-0 (that was also under the tree), but even at almost top speed, it is outrun by the Alco on step 10 (of 128)...  The wheels are not slipping, and the chuff rate seems to go up at similar steps to the Alco, so the engine/decoder thinks it's working harder, it's just not really going much faster as the throttle is increased...

Recently received a Bachmann 45 ton switcher as a gift. I've wanted one of these locos for a while and have heard many good things about their performance. However my locomotive seems to have serious trouble with slow speed running. at slow speed the locomotive's motion is very jerky. I ran the locomotive in in both directions for over an hour and saw no improvement. Has anyone else had this problem with these or has any advice as to fix mine? Any help is appreciated

.... a Bachmann Plus GP40 lcoc.

I am afraid to turn to brute force, as what few details the loco is born with should stay there...

I need her open for lubrication and decoder install...

Thank you for your time

Martin

I own 3 Proto 2000 locomotives. One is a GP18 TP+W in the brown gold color box. The other 2 are GP20's NYC's in the lite blue box. Does anyone out there know what size the wheels are ?? Are they 40 or 42'' size wheels.