HO Scale Model Flatcar - Ready to Run - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #88985 (Red, White)

Good cars that don't run too well on Bachmann EZ track for some reason. Switching to bachmann wheels does seem to help. The red brake wheel on this car should be black (like the green Burlington version) but otherwise I like these cars because they have good details and they look cool rolling along. Even with the bachmann wheels though all my Walthers cars are finicky on the bachmann track, so I'm not buying much of this brand anymore. Too bad 'cause I like to build random scratch build loads and haul 'em around on these flatcars. It is fun I guess when they derail and dump the load all over the scene, so there's that to look forward to. My other reviews for these flatcars in other colors explain how some of them freaked out and what I did to try to fix the derails. The floating pins that hold the trucks on for these Walthers cars are a bad design in my opinion, hot gluing them in place doesn't always fix the issue either.

One of the better flat cars purchased and runs well out the box I.e., the couplers work well with kD. Also Well detailed I.e., The build date is mid 60s and the brake wheel is offset.

One of the trucks was off when it showed up. Went to put the truck back on and it pushes on a pin instead of being screwed on. You would think for a nice car they would screw/bolt the trucks on instead of using a plastic pin to push them on.