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DaveJfr0 posted:
SANTIAGOP23 posted:
Ball bearings everywhere!
Lionel be like “what’s that?”
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Lol.
I give it to Scott for going to ball bearings (from an internalized idea that ball bearings = better), but I'm not sure I would hate on Lionel, or anyone else for that matter, for not using them on our model trains...
My question to the group is...has anyone actually done any mechanical study with hard numbers and determined what actual benefit these ball-bearings have done for our models and whether or not it really matters at the types of force our small trains actually encounter?

Dave they make a huge difference! You should be able to see it from the smoothness of the E9 compared to the F7/FP7! All my high end brass locos have them! And protocraft’s cars also come w ball bearings, even tunned PSC can’t keep up...

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