I see you will be releasing the NS F7 A & B unit soon.  Are there plans to produce the other two F7 A & B road numbers in the near future?  I don't like renumbering locos unless I really have to. 

Some of you may remember my topic about this loco right after Christmas where I didn't remove the foam insert under the trailing truck and it could barely pull three cars.  Once I removed it, it worked fine.

I have track on two pieces of Homasote where I run trains until my room in the basement is finished.  I have 55 cars that normally needs three diesels to pull.   These are not just 40' cars, they're modern, mostly 50' cars, some cars have loads.   I was showing someone the train this weekend.  I took the diesels off and ran the N&W J back and forth a little then decided to try to couple onto the train.  I did not expect it to pull them but it did.   And it didn't even seem to struggle (except for a curve that's a little too sharp.)  I was amazed.  Why can't they make diesels that pull this well? 

I bought  my son a N&W J and 6 Con Cor passenger cars for Christmas.  Alone, the engine runs fine.  But with the aux tender and only three cars,it just spins it's wheels. I've read where it could pull all six without a problem.  What could be the problem? It seems like there is a traction tire on one driver on each side.

UPDATE! My son was putting it on the track and, being he could get lower to the ground and better eyesight than me, he noticed the back set of drivers was barely touching the rails.  When we pushed down they would touch but it made a squeaking noise. I took it off the rails and noticed a piece of foam above the trailing truck.  I took it out and the wheels all touch.  Now it pulls all 6 passenger cars and the aux tender with NO PROBLEM.  It could probably pull more, I'll try tacking on some of my Pennsy passenger cars.

Thank you Bachmann for a great running engine.

Jim