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What @brianel_k-lineguy said, except one important caveat...  This loco has NO flywheel, and NO way to add one 

That means No DCS uprgrades and no coasting.  If you have operators who are fond of hitting the "Dir" button, the loco will come to a bone-jarring halt, and the metal worm could actually cut a bur into the nylon drive gear.  Mine developed a hitch after one such hard stop, that I was never able to cure.

I also had to run a tether back to the tender, because the pickup roller spacing was such that it would stop on some of our switches if running slowly.

In retrospect, I wonder whether adding a couple of large NON-POLAR capacitors in line with the power feed (probably in the tender) would have conferred a little bit of momentum to avoid the worst outcomes.

It's really a shame this loco didn't get a flywheel, because it's geared low, and as others have said runs pretty smoothly when underway.

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