06-07-2021, 09:34 AM
I am speechless. You have done a tremendous job. Last year I bought an Athearn Genesis GP9 which revealed itself a bad runner due to bad power pickup. My trackwork is not perfect but all my other locos run well even on Atlas turnouts. I had a Proto 2000 S-3 which had bad power pickup even when running on DC. On DCC it was a nightmare. I have done like you did and added some extra wipers. It solved the problem. But it was a lot easier to do on a Proto 2000 than on a Genesis. I would certainly not try to completely disassemble this loco to add wipers. It's simply beyond my skills. I'll never buy any Genesis locomotive in the future. I simply can't understand we can send a helicopter to fly on Mars, but can't build a locomotive model with good power pickup.
Guy from Southern Quebec.