09-23-2010, 05:25 PM
I bought a pair of the PDT's back around 1980, I'm guessing. I wanted a RS2, and the only one available at the time was a toylike thing, maybe AHM. I had purchase done for $5.00 It ran badly, to be nice. The shell wasn't bad by the standard of teh day. So I bought the PDT and found I had to scratch a frame and proceeded to do so. Early runs without a body weren't to promising. Quick starts as noted previously. Rather poor electrical contact, again as previously noted, even wired together. Then Atlas came out with an RS3, so the project was shelved. I have them in a box somewhere. I've wondered if I could use them on a tender or even a freight or passenger car, I do not remember the wheelbase, thought I guess it must have been close to that of a RS2. But as added tractive effort they may be handy. Of course, the new ones may be much netter in this regard.