I wasn't really expecting a $80-$90 engines, just not a $15 engine. I paid $55 for this thing and I'd hoped it to preform better than this (I should have dropped another $45 and picked up a B-Mann Spectrum w/ DCC). I knew that it's no Kato but I didn't think it would be this bad, I kinda was hoping it was a mfg. defect and this the bad quality of the drive system was an isolated incident but from ABC's comments it seams that they are all like this. I'm going to take it to the next RR club meeting and see if the old timers can help me smooth her out a little. If not this will be the last "regular" Bachmann I'll buy.

Ed

I bought a brand new HO Bachmann (Not spectrum) UP GP40 (I think that what it was?) DCC engine to play around with and I'm finding that it's really jerky at slow speed and slow to start even with no cars. I ran the engine froward for 30 min and in reverse for 30 min to brake in the drive system and it's still really slow to start, relatively noisy and jerky at low speed is there anything I can do to make her run better? I'm using a Prodigy Advance Sq controller and I've tried adjusting the SV and nothing helps!

Thanks
Ed