05-07-2010, 09:23 AM
I don't know how I missed this thread. Looks like a fun switching layout. I think I'm partial to the GE 45 tonner, if you haven't got a locomotive for it, yet. The side rods on that little beast are really cool! If you are not going dcc, the Bachmann model is very heavy for good tractive effort. Going dcc would reduce it's capacity somewhat because it requires removing the weight to install the decoder. On the other hand if you are going dcc, you might not need a lot of tractive effort with a level layout and probably a train with 5 cars would be a "long train" on your layout.