Roy Boy and Ted,
Thanks for the info. Gonna try to lube it this weekend. This thing seems so slooooowwww, but this is the newest manufactured loco I have. The next newest is a Lionel 2-4-2 from the MPC era. That one is slower than most of my Marx engines, but this K-Line is just super slow at full throttle (16v on my old 1033). Doesn't look like a scale 70 to me, but then I'm used to watching old Marx engines that do a scale Warp 5 or something. Never expected this kind of slow motion running in a train set grade engine. I may try hooking up the K-Line transformer and whistle button to the layout this weekend and see if the K-Line power plant makes it run any better. The headlight even seems dimmer on this K-Line than on the other locos at 16 volts. Holding down the whistle lever on the 1033 does make the ol' 3002 speed up nicely, but the light is still not super bright.
