In the interest of fairness to Scott Mann and 3rd Rail I feel I must at least do one more post to confirm this is an excellent engine. I took it over to Mike Walter’s big O 3-Rail and O scale layout. He repaired the loose tender deck plate and he is pretty sure that was what was causing the derailment and stopping the loco entering the curves. Is minimum radius on Gargraves track is 54” or O-108! He believes with the deck plate repaired it would make 0-60 curves but he did suggest I go 0-72. He did not think O-96 is necessary.
Let me be quite clear I still do not appreciate getting flamed nor do like reading cursing.
The loco is great!
