Walthers heavyweights

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have often read a lot about how poor the walthers heavyweights are. They look good everyone agrees but they perform bad. But I will have to say that since I put Kadee’s on them and run them on a track that have been removed of it’s kinks they are my absolutely best passenger cars. They are running so smoothly that I just can’t believe it. So I would just like to post this and give some positive info on these beautiful passenger cars.

They are a lot less sensitive then my CZ cars but they are coming around since I cut down a little of the little hook under the coupler and most importantly, fixed my track.

Magnus

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I think the main problem has been you need really large radius turns to run them properly. What size turns are you having your good luck with?

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Main issue…they advertize that it will go around 24" radius. They do, but barely…they need much broader curves to operate properly.

David B

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I guess I’m putting off getting those nice looking UP overland cars… They’d die on 22"s wouldn’t they… Maybe the streamliners will work…

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Well I guess that is a part of it. Before I built my layout I made sure that I could handle large equipment like this, my layout is designed for passenger trains and large locos. So I use nothing less then 36" radii on my layout.

Magnus