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Subject:	Postscriptum: New Trains 2022 - High speed passenger train 60337 wheel sets with friction
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:15:51 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, "Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke" <ben@1000steine.SPAM-block.com> wrote: > Hi > Main downside on all new train sets: Lego gave up metal axles. The new ones run > worse than anything in the 9V area. Wheel sets will for sure become a > bottle-neck for MOCs soon. The 2018sets are still on sale and this is the last > chance to get new spares at reasonable costs. > > Leg Godt! > > Ben Postscriptum after a couple of weeks of play with the new trains (my kids loved the train by appearance, but disliked it for being so much slower than the last PU passenger train with the lighter+shorter cars). The new passenger train was originally purchased twice and intended to run as double package back-to-back with one motor replaced by a dummy (with cross axles). But one PU motor was not strong enough to overcome the friction of 20 train wheel sets (+2x cross axles). The wheels of the engine slipped through after passing points and any 90° curve sections. Mostly the train was then run with engine-wagon-wagon-dummy-engine arrangement, but speed was still quite poor. The new full-plastic wheel sets are to blame here. Off the package they show higher resistance and this is not improving over an operational time of some hours. Now I have puchased 50+ (heavy-)used train wheel sets from bricklink at bargain price. Most have been the first generation from 1990ff with metal needle passing through the wheels. Some have been newer with metal bar and wheels with plastic tip. I never found a real difference between these two types. For now I have put the oldest ones into the 60337 and suddenly it runs sufficently on any oval as 6-piece double train: engine-wagon-wagon-wagon-wagon-dummy-engine Great improvement! I need more old wheel sets ... Best Regards, Ben

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		New Trains 2022 - High speed passenger train 60337 and freight train 60336
Hi Lugnet train fans! anybody besides me who has looked into the new trains 60336 and 60337? I was pleased, that the train system is still available at LEGO. Of course not as exhaustive as the 1980 and 1991 roll-out of train sets, but still nice. (...) (2 years ago, 4-Jul-22, to lugnet.trains)

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$New Trains 2022 - High speed passenger train 60337 and freight train 60336 -"Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke" <ben@1000steine.SPAM-block.com> (4-Jul-22 to lugnet.trains)$

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