My experience with the Farish 66's is that they suffer from split gears, and some of them chew gears over time anyway. Best place for them (apart from possible rectal use in whoever is responsible for the fact Bachmann haven't fixed the gears) is in the shop. The later Dapol ones are much better all round. The early Dapol ones are however fairly bad!

If you want a loco that just works then Union Mills is the thing at least for steam. Diesel is a bit harder unless you buy CJM. If a CJM loco fails I imagine Chris will personally show up at your door to apologize 

Alan

I'm pleased to say I'm in a much happier place today.

Two new 66's have survived the run-in, the class 20 has gone back to hattons and the Jinty has been put on ice.

I've got 4 66's now, the EWS ones are both on the newer chassis' as I rebuilt 66200 onto a new chassis. I also aquired a couple of duds for parts. My spares box resembles Toton!