Really interesting announcement! I still have my favorite HO steamer from the early 1970s, a Mantua 2-8-2 with a heavy cast boiler and excellent appearance for the time. I added diodes so the headlight would appear brighter and ran it using 1/2 wave pulse power, and got really smooth performance, even at low crawl speeds. Combined with their new HO FasTrack (looking forward to seeing this in action) that connects magnetically, and with their Bluetooth LC+ technology (electronics in the tender perhaps?), they could end up with a profitable product line. They will probably entice me to purchase a Mantua-heritage loco and loop of track just for old-times sake. I still have my HO stuff in a trunk in the basement.
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