Wildcatfootball said:
On the subject of Bachmanns Acela stuff, are the couplers the normal knuckle couplers, or do they use a different device?
the Acela uses draw bars, which are much better. they allow you to run a train forwars and backwards without the couplers"bunching up" and causeing derailments when the power car is in back. you have to be carefule though, as the draw bars are easily cracked, and its hard to get replacements. i still haven't found any for my Acela, and i'm about to just buy a whole new locomotive set (mine are damged anyway...)
The pantographs also are easily messed up, although not always damaged. there is a brass tab that a wire on the pans hook up with that can be easily borken if you aren't carful. also, if the pantograph gets pull back, the wire ofetn gets un hooked, and then you need to fiddle with it for a while. they cn run on overhead power if you want. 22inch curve minimum.
Otherwise its a great model, the locomotive doors do swing open ( to a diecast interior
). i wonder why they put them there.
The HHP8 aclea is different though. I assume you mean the Acela express.