--- In [email protected], "Ed" wrote:
> "If the operation is satisfactory or equal, what difference does it >make?"
Hi Ed,It's impossible to make a drive that performs as well when the drive
is designed to dedicate a greater portion of the interior space to huge
proprietary electronic modules for sound and control. No matter how well a toy
train diesel performs it's possible to improve the on track performance with a
drive designed to maximize the use the interior space for the actual drive
components and leave the sound and control to smaller parts. It might not be as
loud or as fast but it will be more responsive and pull a train at a scale
speed better.
This is not a question of two motors or one motor but a question of where their
design goals are aimed and what they choose to emphasize and to compromise to
get there? HO and N scales had been pretty free of this problem since the 60's
toy train designs didn't sell well but this new Kato drive looks like the HO
and N guys might be in for the same assault the O scale guys have been subject
to since AtlasO decided to go with the high speed toy train drives? Hopefully
HO and N have enough modelers to override the marketing guys and to demand
emphasis remain on the scale models? ....DaveBranum
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