Excellent review Neil - thanks.
I'm lucky enough to have one of these brutes in my own collection - it's a bit noisy from the gears, but otherwise the performance is on a par with the prototype. I think the noise is partly due to the Lenz 1024 decoder in it !
Incidently, I used to have a Roco one but it was one of the rubber band mech' ones & it never ran very slowly without jerking.
I'm lucky enough to have one of these brutes in my own collection - it's a bit noisy from the gears, but otherwise the performance is on a par with the prototype. I think the noise is partly due to the Lenz 1024 decoder in it !
Incidently, I used to have a Roco one but it was one of the rubber band mech' ones & it never ran very slowly without jerking.