I like these low-end Lionel RS-3's more than I should; while they will run at the speed of light, strangely they are also capable of running at reasonable, if not creep-y, speeds. Good body tooling; the frame could use some - a lot - of sprucing up. I prefer the ones with the metal handrails, though.
I have painted 2 of these in the past; one day I am going to fix those pilots and close that horrible gap. And the fuel tanks.
One of my favorite things about this design are the little "traction motors" in the trucks; plenty powerful in tandem, they are much more prototypical in design arrangement than either the vertical can motors or the fancy-schmancy single motor/driveshaft schemes. They are truck-mounted traction motors, like the real thing. Pretty much.
ERR command control would be an easy upgrade, too. Some weight is definitely a requirement.
