Good looking, very small; even smaller than the Porter. Nice amount of cab detail (which comes seperate on the "unlettered" version). The unlettered is really more of an undecorated unit than any of Spectrums previous unlettered units. As for running... I went through FIVE of them to get two that ran OK. Two had a bind (one had a HORRIBLE bind) and one wobbled and was very noisy. Yellow headlight that is nice and bright (though yellow) and goes off in reverse. I don't know how well they pull and don't really care; I'm sure they will handle a few cars fine. I like them alot but all these chinese built things seem to have some SERIOUS quality control issues to settle. Too bad Kato doesn't have the variety that Atlas and Spectrum have. I have only seen ONE bad Kato in 20 years. (Mikado with a bind). But who needs these Dash-9 whatever things??1?
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20 years ago