Jim, I too bought one of the first run U33c's in E-L livery. For one I
wanted "help the cause" so to speak as I'm primarily a 50's era modeler, but
the impending SD-45's from DesPlaines made me think I'd get two of 'em to mu
with the U33C. In fact I thought I had read that Ron S. was waiting on the
Lionel release of the U-boat to match the gearing with that on the SD's. I
haven't heard anymore about the DesPlaines SD's either.
As for slow speed, I don't think a big U-boat would be doing a whole lot of
slow speed switching in their early years, same for the SD-45's. On the E-L
they usually handled the fast piggyback trains, high priority freight.
I'm also not convinced that Lionel didn't realize they gave the E-L units a
a U36C number series, I'm trying to see what if any external differences there
are between the 33C's and the 36C's.
Bud Rindfleisch
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>
> I too hope you are wrong and that our engines can play well together.
> >
> > I've read the posts regarding how well the Lionel offerings run and
> > honestly don't care where, how many or in what position the motors
> > reside.What does concern me is whether different locomotives will MU
> > or double head. I have a first run U33c, now with the pilots fixed to
> > the frame, scale wheels, Kadee couplers (actually I think they are
> > Walthers) and a Tsunami decoder.It's a bit faster than I would have
> > preferred but runs well slowly and pulls what I think it should -- I
> > am totally satisfied.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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