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VIDEO: Accucraft Southern Pacific F5 locomotive
Looks sharp. I do wish someone would come out with a Northern Pacific steamer though. A 4-6-0 would be nice.
very nice and enjoyable
Great looking engine, but I just had to turn the music off. Sorry.
The engine looks great but I agree with Marty Cozad the music is way to much for this video. I showed to two other people who love garden railroad and they said the same thing. How about just listening to the product as it rolls along.
A very beautiful model, somewhat spoiled by the permanent mid-gear of the die-block. This ‘neutral’ valve-gear setting considerably limits the travel of the eccentric arm, making for a less than scintillating spectacle of motion. The Aster/GB White Pass loco had a clever mechanical linkage that moved the gear into forward or reverse by a simple slip mechanism - it would not have been that hard to have doine something like that on this model.
Prototypical appearance whilst stationary - 9.5/10.
In motion 2/10.
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I would love to have one of these. It is awesome.
I like it. We run an F4 and have loads of fun.
Great looking steam engine, I enjoyed watching it run.