Engine itself is great, minus the fact that the front truck is free spinning, not hooked up to the drive shaft.
The reason for 5 stars,is because of the great customer service from Model Train Stuff.

these merchant row kits are great products by walthers to add realism to your lay out

walthers merchant row kits are easy to assemble add realism to your train layout

these merchant row kits are great kits made by walthers cornerstone kits

walthers makes great products there cornerstone building kits are easy to assemble and add great realism to your train layout

peco makes a great product and this will make it easy to make a 36" radius track for my longer coach cars

Great kit. Easy to build and looks good.

Nice car good details.

Excellent paint schemes, great details on the dump doors.

Great details and a fair priced model.

I am going to use it in one of my standard DC engines soon. I use JMRI to program. It is easy to install in an hour or so.

Great looking and sounding locomotive