jim pastorius posted:Why I run old prewar and old postwar. Lot less hassle & $$ involved. Supposed to be fun.
Good for you Jim.
Some folks aren't interested in old prewar and old postwar.
As crazy as it sounds. There are a lot of reliable well running modern trains, just as there were defective prewar and postwar items.
In particular, I recall a story about Madison hardware exchanging whole locomotives for a run of defective new out of the box ones.
Plenty of defective/ broken/ unreliable prewar and postwar trains ended up in landfills decades ago.
A Ford flathead is a simple reliable v8 engine with little that can go wrong.
However, alot of folks would prefer the modern flat plane Coyote v8 which can do everything better than the flathead albeit it's more expensive and more complex.
The OP has a warranty but has elected not to make use of it. I suspect a postwar diesel may not have the features he' s interested in.
