Join the club brother, i been saying that for years, show us what radius the loco will do on the box not find out the hard way.

 Have manufacturers been putting the turn radius on locomotive boxes recently, if not i think they should it would save a lot of headaches, nothing worse than getting a beautiful loco and the front or rear drivers jump the rail arrrrh. yes this is a rant.

 I guess what i am trying to say is if they made the flange a little bigger it would be able to make my 11 radius curves , i checked the wheel gauge with the tool and all the wheels are in spec. Maybe even if it had more side play that might work also.

 Ihave a n  and w j that can make a 11 inch radius but my lt. mountain cannot, the reason is the wheel flange difference. just that little bit of difference , what happens is the front set of drivers pop off, is there a standard wheel flange height? 

 Exactly thats what i meant when i said that about the f-3 or f-7, i dont want to pay 95 dollars for one unit

We need a new version of f-3 . With all these new models coming out like the gp-7 and new steam, wheres this engine? By the way we would need a powered and non powered for the well you know the speaker, because nobody makes a decent speaker for n yet, not a rant just sayin.

If you buy the newer loco you just have to match the colored wires to the board and put the speaker in the prefab hole in the tender and program and you are done.

 Hey if you kitbash one and build it by hand , then definitely Bachmann will make one thats usually the way it goes. K4 you hear that Bachmann, what do we have to do stand on our heads. 

 The question is on the lt. mountain is should i enlongate the hole on the pilot truck and trim down the steam chests?

 Ihave a N&W J and it runs wonderful on my layout, i purchased a lt. mountain and it runs like crap, not for the pulling capacity but for the way it doesent make the curves. My question is if i bought another northern, not a j but regular northern would it make the turns? Considering that my j makes the turnes i was wondering if the standard northern uses the same drive block.

The question i have is this, the wire for the chuff sensor where does it go if your engine does not have a place for this? I have installed mrc decoders and they just work from the power used to turn the wheels.

 has anyone seen a new f3 or f7 in n scale from bachmann in the past few years? I would like to see them make it in a set like the gp 40s one powered and one dummy.

Are you listening Bachmann, we need dummy units. If you are trying to put a sound decoder into a h.o. or n scale its like trying to put a ten pound bag of ,well you know. Please make dummy units.   

 Just sit the extra boards on top of the other with the dowell pins already installed and trace the outline of the dowells on the new boards and drill out , glue and you are done.

I put a 16 mm in my lt. mountain. Does your engine have a pulling problem, mine does?