Hello,
FedX is definitely working overtime. I received my Chas. Ro delivery late yesterday morning. It arrived as we were leaving on a shopping trip so I did not get a chance to operate yesterday. This morning I opened the boxes and found as Mark mentioned a beautiful add on coach for the P.E. and a pretty nice looking P.E. refer. I also ordered the Santa Fe Blue Bonnet locomotive. I was a bit disappointed in the packaging of the engine, as I pulled its shipping box out of the larger box which the three items came, I tipped the box and heard the engine inside of the box go clunk, the box did not have the usual Styrofoam lid on it allowing the engine to float inside of the box, this may be the reason for some paint chipping as Mark mentioned. I ran the GP this morning and did notice some surging of the speed, that may go away with some break in time, I also notice the side frame on the power truck is a little cockeyed, high at the front and lower toward the rear. I ran the two cars behind the engine and did have them both derail a few times, checking the gauge of the wheels showed they will need some adjustment on both cars. The new P.E. coach will in the near future get the LED lighting as all of the rest of my P.E. cars have. Happy to have this before Christmas.
Merry Christmas to all
Ray
