From: Alan Lambert Fort Worth, Texas
I have to agree with Ed. vertical motors on Drive trucks does away with the nagging Drive shaft with plastic couplers. Verticle mounted motors give you direct drive for smoother operation, less maintinence problems. The black beetle drive did that. Alan Lambert ________________________________ From: ctxmf74 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 5:42 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: New Flyonel locos run fine....... --- In [email protected], "Edward Loizeaux" wrote: > I hate to disagree with a couple of train buddies, BUT the new AF >locos by > Lionel will change your minds about vertical motors mounted >directly onto a > truck. > At the recent O SCALE WEST + S convention, both locos ran on my >layout for > the layout visiting tourists. They both operated on DCC. I must say they > ran as well as any other loco S scale has seen to date. Hi Ed, I didn't say they can't make a decent loco that way, I said it's usually not the best way to make a scale loco and shows where a companies true loyalties lie. No matter how nice those Lionel locos run physics says using the bulk of the space for motor and gearing is gonna make a better running loco than using the space for proprietary control system, sound, and smoke. It's just a matter of the room required for a large high quality motor, a strong low speed gear train, flexible well detailed trucks,etc. There's no way all that can be compressed into just the truck space without giving up something.Usually they give up motor quality, gear ratio, enclosed gears, and equalized trucks to add their non-standard control and sound boards. I just don't like to see Kato taking this path too cause in the past they built some nice locos...DaveBranum
