Special care concerning making the loco weigh as much as possible. Best would be a loco that will move four cars in a yard.
I would buy a switcher, but price is always the issue. I had zero interest in the Huet brass switchers. If someone made an injection version in the $150-200 I would probably buy a small fleet of them. I reserved (no money down) one of the Searails NW2s. I don't understand how that logic works in my head. If it costs $300, I'll get one. At $150, like the GP7s, ill grab all 4 road numbers and be out $600.
Jeff, Yes I've bought a Gerd-built MP15 and am very happy with it. I would buy more small switchers as long as they don't look like a narrow-gauge N switcher (out of scale). James P.S. Congrats to you and Mickie.
Same for me, as said earlier: I voted yes, but investing into a $500 switcher is none of my business. I really don't plan to invest into a switcher if it's more expensive than a current plastic shelled AZL roadswitcher. As for the model, I'm only interrested into a SW1504, the only switcher used by my reference prototype railroad. And I'm not in a hurry for that. Dom
I have build my own SW1000 already. But I would buy an SW1200 if the price would be similar to the GP's. MTL just needs to shrink their N scale SW1500 shell and chop a GP chassis.
I built one of Z-tech's SW1s which is lovely when it works but being based on a Marklin chassis it is tempremental to say the least . A coreless-fly wheeled-RTR one would be top of my shopping list but for me any of the following would be handy. Alco S1, S2, S4 Baldwin VO1000 EMD NW2, SW1, SW7, SW8, SW9 Lima Hamilton 1000 or 1200HP The Nickel Plate had some of all of these so I'm ready. Bring them on! Kev
Just to keep the subject going..... since I like switching in Z-scale. Next picture shows my SW1, which I have build from one of the last frets from Lajos Thek. The inspiration to build the SW1000 out of styrene, was David Karp's presentation of the chopped MTL GP chassis and Gerd's first nickel silver MP15DC.
