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MTH Premier line GP40 locomotive
What a great surprise , something new to read about & view at CTT ! Enjoyed the MTH GP-40 demo on the test track and your comments Bob .
If you guys keep this up you’ll give the HO team over at MRR some real competetion . Thanks , Jim
Bob, while being tested, what was the minimum radius this unit could successfully negotiate? I think the specs in the catalog say the minimum curve is O-42 but I think earlier GP-40s made by MTH cited O-31 as the minimum. The older GP-40s I have negotiate the O-36 curves on my layout. Therefore, the size of the curve this new CP-40 will be able to go through would be an important factor when considering adding this unit to your fleet, as you put it.
PG
While most of our testing was on O-36 or wider, we did run it on a circle of O-31 RealTrax. It ran fine. BTW both the website and manual specify O-31 for this model.