@romiller49 posted:I’m sorry but the engine looks ridiculous going around the curve with the front drive wheels leaving the rails as pictured above by the original poster. I’ll bet this engine is going to be a nightmare for Lionel. I would not have produced this engine if that’s what was needed for 036 running.
Hey Rod,
That's the trade-off Lionel had to come up with in order to get a scale-sized train to run on toy train curves.
Had Lionel put flanged drivers on both drive axles, that would have limited it to probably at least O72 curves, if not larger. Thereby severely limiting the amount of modelers that could buy and run it on their layouts. 
