A new O gauge arrival- a Zeuke FD50 streamlined 4-6-0 (or 2' C in Europe), made in East Germany. Several interesting features- it's made largely of Bakelite, including the wheels. It was designed to operate on 3-rail track with the outside rails isolated from each other, which was used to implement reversing. To make it operational on ordinary 3-rail track I isolated one of the two outside rail pickups (after checking which one would result in forward operation). It runs fine, although it does not like the gaps in some of the Lionel switches on my O gauge loop. It's a nice looking train. Zeuke also made TT gauge trains, check out this website for more info on the O gauge products (follow the links at the top to browse through the Zeuke / Liebmann product line, all kinds of interesting stuff there):
http://www.spur-null.de/triebfahrzeuge/z_fd50_2c.html.
