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    Coming back to N guage. Help please?

    Bob, just so you know for future purchases, most newer rolling stock and locos are compatible with Atlas Code 55 track, the exceptions being Micro-Trains (although I beleive in the last couple of years they offer low profile wheels on their rolling stock, but not their truck/coupler packages)...
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    Chevy, Ford, or Mopar?

    If you don't get to try before you buy I would get the Kato 2-8-2 before I would go for the Spectrum 2-8-0, I got one of the spectrums mail order, didn't run worth a darn, traded it for another, was just as bad. Others have had better luck, but most will still say try before you buy with the...
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    LL E8 shell on LL E6 frame?

    Just did it, yes, chassis are the same on my LL E8s and E6s. These are both the early run units, I think life like did a later run with split frames or at least a different frame, I don't know about the later ones. Greg
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    Favorite N Scale Manufacturer

    My favorite is Life Like, not because they are the best, but because they are the best value. Also they mostly do early diesels and are now doing steam so they focus on what I am interested in. I briefly had some Kato E-8s so I could compare them directly to my life like early run E-8s, the...
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