The EMD SW1 is a 600 HP diesel-electric switcher built by General Motors subsidiary, Electro Motive Corporation; subsequently renamed Electro Motive Division; between late 1938 and late 1953. As with most long-running locomotive production models many rev.
D**Y
Loved it until is suddenly died
Looks great, quiet, nice slow control with a good transformer, pulls well, and directional LED lights are a plus. It can handle tight corners, with a radius of about 8", just as we hoped.However, it died way too soon. The drive gears somehow got jammed, or the motor lost power. Perhaps just bad luck...
B**L
great engine
solid
J**.
Five Stars
very smooth running and powerful.
B**S
Beautiful little EMD SW1 Switching Locomotives !
I purchased two of these Arnold SW1 Switchers, they are beautifully detailed and have crisp lettering. They are DCC ready, all I had to do to switch them over to DCC was remove the 6 pin DC dummy plug and replace it with a 6 pin decoder and program the Loco's road number into the decoder, it took all of 5 minutes for each one as I was learning how with my first DCC system. they ran great on regular DC power and even better on DC Pulse power and could be slowed down to a crawl and were fairly quiet. I only acquired my DCC System about 3 weeks ago and they run just as good as with DC Pulse, but because of the Quiet run feature of the decoders I installed they now run very quietly. I am very happy with these Locomotives !!!
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