by _o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha » Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:45 am
There is a Southern repaint of this unit available, so it can be done.
The model is flawed and not updated by RSC yet. Flawed in the sense that the drop steps are down and too large. The couplers extend and retract on coupling/uncuoupling to compensate. One can live with that, but the default couplers are too springy and the units overlap during heavy dynamic braking causing derailments without apparent reason. Also, the default cab view is still short hood forwards, even though N&W, SOU and NS always ran their units long hood forwards until rebuilding and chopping the high short hood.
Edwin "Kanawha"
The Chessie, the train that never was ... (6000 hp Baldwin-Westinghouse steam turbine electric)