I think the conventional Rail King steamers are really good. I have a couple, as well as some proto-1 locos, and they still run great, and look great. While they don't have speed control, and all the bells and whistles, they smoke great, and I actually manually controlling speed with the transformer. I think they are still worth purchasing and owning. As electronics inevitably will die in some of my ps2 locos, I may just convert them to conventional to be honest because I just enjoy running them.
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