Hi everyone ! Some might remember that I mentioned in one of the other threads that I had discovered a KLINE Santa Fe S-2 switcher that I had apparently bought and packed up and forgot about. I commented that I was surprised that this thing had 2 motors, 3 position reverse, great livery, and ran really smoothly. So today I began to wonder how it would stack up against the Lionel "600" series NW-2 's under post war freight conditions. So I hooked it up to 5 relatively heavy PW freight cars to see how she did. The cars were 3464 NYC Operating Box car, 2454 Baby Ruth Box, 6464 GN box, 6464-100 WP box and a fully illuminated 2357 SP caboose. Well, she did extremely well. Handled this consist with no trouble at all. In fact she cruised around my 0-31 loop (mostly flat) with no trouble at 8.5 volts on the ZW. Here are some pictures.
Well, I remain convinced that we lost a good supplier of trains when KLINE left. This little guy could clearly hold his own against the PW competition.
Have a good Holiday everyone
Don