I’m just getting into garden railroading, and I like narrow gauge logging. Have been hearing quite a bit of negatives re: Bachmann’s Spectrum 3-truck Shay (gear and truck problems). Anyone have any experience with their 38-ton 2 truck Shay?..or their 2-6-0 Mogul? Thanks in advance.
I don’t own either of those, but I know that the 2-truck Shay is very popular.
Hi Bopdoc, Welcome to the forum in reply to your question the locos are good value all locos get little probs if you get one with gears ship it back to bachmann and the replacements are of far better quality, I had to have a new set put in a consolidation and the repair chap said to me that they are far better then the ones that come in loco. If you feel like it can you show where you are it helps people when replying to posts.
I have A Two-Truck Shay that like most has a TIC TIC TIC in forward BUT not in revease so I run mine mostly in reverse it is a very good puller and can clime to moon ( with enough track ).
Dave
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The ticking sound is normally the three chuff contacts, read George Schreyer’s pages on this.
The 3 truck shay comes with the improved all metal trucks as opposed to the plastic ones on the 2 truck. I would not hesitate to buy a 3 truck, but you want the one without DCC in it, unless you are running DCC.
Regards, Greg