Triple Train Engine Face-Off

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Just the locomotive? Then 10183 wins. It looks better the way it goes over the track.

But if you put double-stack cars behind the BNSF, then it's better than 10183, mainly because

it has better colors. The same is true for Santa Fe, if you run just the engine over the track it does

not look good, but with the Santa Fe cars behind it, it looks awesome.

Seeing it from a distance I'd say that BNSF + double stack cars looks better, from up close, the Santa Fe + cars wins.

Without cars behind the loc's, the 10183 wins.

By the way, someone mentioned that the Santa Fe cars are hard to pull: You have to treat the wheel sets (make a small

cut in them with a Stanley knife so that the wheels don't rub the wheel holder, see page 51 of railbricks 2). That doubles the

number of cars that you can pull. The wheel holder is a softer plastic, if your knife is sharp then making the cut should be

easy and safe. Without the cuts, your Santa Fe is either going to be short, or stationary, or, something that burns out your

motors very quickly. If you want to enjoy your motors for a long time, then you have to make the cuts.